To the editor:

Dear Mr. Wade Vitalis: Maybe the answer to your question last week is that most, if not all, Evangelical Christians belong to congregations who are already sacrificially involved in doing their part to provide relief for the impoverished. Besides providing meals, food pantries, winter clothes, school supplies, Christmas toys and untold volunteer hours serving in every needy nook and cranny of our metro and rural communities, these congregations bring a message of hope, love and forgiveness along with a network of services to help these individuals survive and thrive.
Evangelicals havenít forgotten the ìgreatest of all commandmentsî as you call it ñ they practice it in their own personal lives instead of paying someone else to do it for them so they donít have to be reminded or bothered.

Religion without relationship, as well as government, can be an expensive fig leaf, in an attempt to cover our inadequacies. Maybe the ìmoral litmus testî that you speak of should be one that asks if we are each doing our part to care for the needy around us instead of casting a vote that asks government do our duty for us.
No, Mr. Vitalis, Christians havenít forgotten their moral compass ñ they voted with it.

Stacy Pearson
Lindstrom

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