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...summer of 2008, one or both parties will likely fire it from a confetti gun. A million fluttery pieces of conventional wisdom will swirl around a nominee or nominees once thought to be impossible: a woman, a black man, a guy in his 70s, a Mormon, a Hispanic, a Baptist preacher who used to be 100 lbs. overweight. Who knows? This is the year to bet on something unusual happening, and few things in politics are more unusual than Rudolph Giuliani - "America's mayor," the rock of 9/11, crime fighter and tax cutter...
...wake of comments by a leading conservative Christian theologian, who says fellow evangelicals should accept that science may one day prove homosexuals are born gay. "We sin against homosexuals by insisting that sexual temptation and attraction are predominately chosen," wrote the Rev. Albert Mohler, the influential president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mohler's position is a startling departure from years of insistence among fundamentalists that gay rights advocates are wrong when they say homosexuality is not something they choose...
...Indeed, evangelicals have for years defined themselves in large part by their insistence that every word in the Bible is true - no matter how strongly science may suggest otherwise, according to Dr. Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists and one of Mohler's sharpest critics. "I wrestle with Al Mohler all the time; he is one of the key leaders of the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention," Prescott said. "But I think this might be the first chink in any of these leaders' armor. At least it suggests that they are trying to reconcile science...
...conventional wisdom is that China's leaders are still feeling him out. But among his own people, that doesn't necessarily hurt Tsang. "They see him as someone who is not a partisan of these groups," says Michael DeGolyer, who heads the Hong Kong Transition Project at Hong Kong Baptist University. "He basically identifies with [Hong Kongers] against these outside forces...
Richard Land, the Southern Baptists' ambassador to the very earthly kingdom of politics and policy (his official title is President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination) is a diplomat and an affable character, so when he speaks plainly the words carry weight. And his salvos launched at Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani were the warning shots in the evangelical primary: who has the strongest claim to the hearts and minds of the G.O.P. base...