What would Jesus cut?

Jim Wallis

I guess Easter is as good a time as any to take note of the fact that partisans on the left are taking lessons from the “religious right” by invoking the name of Jesus into the budget debate.

Jim Wallis, co-founder and CEO of Sojourners magazine, has launched an organization called What Would Jesus Cut? that sends emails and What Would Jesus Cut? bracelets to congressional representatives. The messages question why the Republicans’ budget plan should favor the “super rich” while cutting $758 million from the Women, Infants and Children Program, among other things.

As this article notes, What Would Jesus Cut? “represents the most viable, coherent and exciting vision for fastening a Christian moral vision to our national politics at the other end of political spectrum.”