Evangelicals Influencing Foregin Policy

We are all used to Evangelicals injecting their religious beliefs into political debates about abortion, birth control, sex ed and gay rights. Now though, at least one fringe group is trying to influence America's foreign policy. A group call Christians United for Israel is having a big conference in Washington advocating war with Iran to protect Israel.

The founder of the group is Rev. John Hagee who clearly has no interest in protecting Israel. Nope. What he cares about is keeping American troops in the Middle East to fulfill is prediction that the end times are imminent and that a necessary precursor to "rapture" is continued war in the Middle East.

The most amazing part is that the Jewish delegation present knows Hagee's motive and they don't care.

"'If they have an ulterior motive to have the second coming, they're entitled as long as they don't require us' to go along with it, Foxman said. 'They are entitled as long as they don't make it conditioned to us to accept their other agenda, which is Christ.'"

Another interesting side note is that Joe Lieberman who used to be a Democrat, proudly spoke at this shindig. He should be ashamed of himself, but like most Republicans, he is locked up in his own little world and either can't see or doesn't care that these Evangelicals are using him and his Jewish faith to promote their own crazy end-times fantasies.