The question is this, 'Do evangelicals have an opportunity, or even stronger, a responsibility to influence US Foreign Policy?'
Specifically, today we are considering what the US response should be to Beijing 2008 (The 2008 Summer Olympics hosted by China), considering China's notorious reputation for it's human rights violations.
Our guest on the program today, will be John Whitehead, President of the Rutherford Institute. A recent news headline stated: 'Conservative Attorney Calls for President Bush to Boycott the Olympics'.
A copy of the news item provided by the Rutherford Institute reads:
'Attorney John Whitehead believes the rampant greed of large corporations has turned the Olympic Games into a moneymaking enterprise, making it difficult for human-rights activists to call attention to the continued persecution and abuses in the communist Chinese dictatorship.
Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, says that millions of dollars have already been spent by various companies for the right to sponsor the Beijing Olympics this August. Some of the contributing corporations include Adidas, Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Microsoft.
The constitutional attorney says the latest tensions in Tibet illustrate that pouring capitalism into the communist dictatorship has not helped reduce the human-rights violations in that country. 'The argument I always heard was that the more [the U.S.] interacted with China, the more they would become like America and revere freedom,' he contends. '[But] the opposite has happened. In fact, China is not getting better; they're getting worse.' |
