Via Andrew Sullivan, David Kuo (author of Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction), in his open letter to Dobson and Colson, hits on what I was trying to get at in "The Christian Message" post:
Jesus' name is being destroyed in the name of partisan politics such that people now identify him more with issues like abortion and gay marriage and with wickedly partisan attacks than they do with the Good News.
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