Amazing grace and other things

Kathleen Parker has an interesting piece on townhall.com dealing with a new movie coming out concerning William Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery in the civilized world. She says:

As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, they might add to the list of things for which they are grateful: Christian evangelicals.

No, I'm not kidding.

It has become fashionable and amusing these days to ridicule conservative Christians who believe in the Bible, even if they fail to live by the Word every waking moment. One fallen preacher comes along and the secular world rejoices in the triumph of hypocrisy.

Yet, anyone familiar with the history of social justice knows that evangelicals, as well as others of different faiths, have led many of the causes that progressives today claim as their turf.

Read the whole thing here.