Tuesday, 01 July 2008

• While reading the news this morning, this article caught my eye.

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  Between now and November, the Obama forces are planning as many as 1,000 house parties and dozens of Christian rock concerts, gatherings of religious leaders, campus visits and telephone conference calls to bring together voters of all ages motivated by their faith to engage in politics. It is the most intensive effort yet by a Democratic candidate to reach out to self-identified evangelical or born-again Christians and to try to pry them away from their historical attachment to the Republican Party.

  Mr. Obama is building his appeal in part on calls to heal political rifts and address human suffering. He is also drawing on his own characteristics and story, including his embrace of Christianity as an adult, a facility with biblical language and imagery and comfort in talking about how his religious beliefs animate his approach to public life.

  He also faces significant hurdles in appealing to religious voters because of his tolerance for abortion and same-sex marriage.

  Mr. Mark DeMoss, a public relations executive who represents Franklin Graham and other church leaders and conservative religious organizations, cited the meeting two weeks ago in Chicago in which Mr. Obama met privately with 30 religious leaders from many traditions and political persuasions, including several, like Mr. Graham, who were never likely to support him.

  Mr. Obama won praise for his openness to those who disagreed with him, Mr. DeMoss said, but he stood firm in his support for abortion rights and cemented opposition from those for whom that is a bedrock issue.

  Mr. Obama is also reaching out to young evangelicals, the so-called Joshua generation, a group that would seem to be a fertile ground for recruitment.

  Gabe Lyons, founder of the Fermi Project, a nonprofit group that educates church and youth leaders about Christianity and society, said many young evangelicals from the left and right had been turned off to politics.

  “Obama is doing a better job of talking about his religious views and values than John McCain is,” Mr. Lyons, 33, said. “The challenge is that the closer young evangelicals get to understanding his policies the more they will struggle with them and many will slowly back off because for them abortion is such a huge point.”

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25468930/

  (bolded for emphasis by josh mcgrath)

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  “Including his embrace for Christianity as an adult” his embrace? His embrace?? I’m sorry, but when I think about a godly leader, I don’t think of one who “embraces Christianity” . . . I think of a man who isn’t afraid to believe in ONE idea, ONE faith, ONE God . . . not a man who “embraces” them all.

  Who will stand against the social expectations of voting for Obama? Where do the lines of racism begin and the lines of politics end? We have an “embracing” leader, Obama, who holds a conference meeting with religious leaders to show his support for what? All their individual denominations? Their individual beliefs? To tell them he is a believer . . . of all their religions?

  I think the following video does a good  job of showcasing his beliefs on two important issues.
  

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlY9HFRNUHs&feature=related
  

  Did you like the wording – “when I sit down and read scripture and think ‘how would Jesus feel about . . .’” Is he seriously bringing Jesus into this??

  The thing I like the most about this interview is, he ends it talking about all the things we “agree” on . . . like--children should be cared for, promoting the safety and security of the United States and giving economic opportunity to all people. This is the smooth, professional, “caring” politician that has so gracefully deceived thousands of people. It is this wolf in sheep’s skin that has caused the American people to strongly support a leader who “cares” but who is committed to killing children and pressing on for gay-rights.

  I write this to once again refresh your memory, to show you the agenda of a seemingly “great” politician who is supposedly the “change we can believe in” . . . but like so many of his predecessors, he is merely the same politician . . . just a different color.

   

   

   

  For further inquires, this helped me in my research. Not extensive by and means, but a great beginning.

  http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200805/CUL20080529a.html

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT7qhGvykiQ

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oZ_pe1MZ8&feature=related

  http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200703/CUL20070316a.html

   

   

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