Christians Urged to Boycott Glenn Beck
This week, the Rev. Jim Wallis, a liberal evangelical leader in Washington, D.C., urged Christians to boycott Glenn Beck.
“What he has said attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show,” Mr. Wallis, who heads the antipoverty group Sojourners, wrote on his “God’s Politics” blog. “His show should now be in the same category as Howard Stern.”
Mr. Beck, in vilifying churches that promote “social justice,” managed to insult just about every mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, African-American, Hispanic and Asian congregation in the country — not to mention plenty of evangelical ones.
Even Mormon scholars in Mr. Beck’s own church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said in interviews that Mr. Beck seemed ignorant of just how important social justice teaching was to Mormonism.
The controversy started when Mr. Beck stated on his radio show: “I beg you, look for the words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.
“Am I advising people to leave their church? Yes! If I am going to Jeremiah Wright’s church,” he said, referring to the incendiary black pastor who led the church attended by the Obama family members when they lived in Chicago. “If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop and tell them, ‘Excuse me, are you down with this whole social justice thing?’ ”
Super Media Blog is for liberty and truth and isn’t stuck in the left-right paradigm. We are still wary of Beck after he verbally shot down Tea Party supporter Debra Medina who was running for Texas governor. He says he wants small gov’t but then he strikes out against it many times. So we are neither promoting or disregarding this boycott, we are keeping an eye on him and seeing if he can redeem himself or just continue to be a talking head for the status-quo with a touch of fear mongering.



