It’s a question I hear with increasing frequency. “Does God care more about homosexuality than about hunger?” The question arises because those who purport to represent religion in politics – people such as the Revs. Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and James Dobson – expend vastly more effort crusading against homosexuality than against hunger.

It’s a question I hear with increasing frequency. “Does God care more about homosexuality than about hunger?”The question arises because those who purport to represent religion in politics – people such as the Revs. Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and James Dobson – expend vastly more effort crusading against homosexuality than against hunger.Their websites underline the point. Dobson’s Focus on the Family site contains sections on abstinence, education, gambling, homosexuality and marriage but nothing on hunger. The same goes for Robertson and Falwell, though Robertson does offer the opportunity to support his flying hospital, buy his “age defying protein pancakes” and sample his diet plan. (I may look into the last.)The Christian Coalition seems to believe that God cares more about the flat tax than about hunger. Among the 18 agenda items on its website are making the president’s tax cuts permanent, confirming Bush’s judicial nominees and support for anti-gay measures. But there is nothing about hunger here either.Indeed, the Christian Coalition apparently finds biblical support for “abolition of the IRS and the federal income tax and replacing it with a flat tax or a national sales tax” but can’t seem to locate a biblical imperative to feed the hungry.I can. Deuteronomy 15:7-10 commands, “If there is among you a poor man