Op-Ed: How Bono Rallied Evangelicals in Fight Against HIV/AIDS
By Jenny Eaton Dyer, PhD
Twenty years ago, Bono came to Nashville. It was the end of his brief but effective Heart of America Tour, culminating on World AIDS Day, to rally largely white, evangelical voters to a little-known, albeit heavily stigmatized, issue: AIDS in Africa. He needed their support if his organization was going to move a president who had never traveled to Africa to address a pandemic a continent away. Spoiler alert: it worked.
But the question I ponder, as Bono came back to town Nov. 9 on his book tour for the recently released "SURRENDER: 40 Songs, One Story," is if a similar meeting on critical global health and development issues with the new evangelical guard in Nashville would be as influential today. …
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