The Florida pastor tapped to lead the Christian Coalition has resigned because he was not able to get the organization to focus on anything aside from abortion and gay marriage.

  • He wanted to focus on things like poverty and the environment, “issues that Jesus would want us to care about,” the pastor said.

    • Buffalo News:

    ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida pastor recently tapped to lead the Christian Coalition of America resigned his position in a dispute about conservative philosophy — more than a month before he was to fully assume his post, he said this week.

    The Rev. Joel Hunter, of Northland, A Church Distributed, in Longwood, Fla., said he quit as president-elect of the group founded by evangelist Pat Robertson because he realized he would be unable to broaden the organization’s agenda beyond opposing abortion and same-sex marriage.

    He hoped to include issues such as easing poverty and saving the environment.

    “These are issues that Jesus would want us to care about,” Hunter said.

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