Posted on 01/21/2008 7:01:05 AM PST by guitarist
Doug LeBlanc is a conservative evangelical and a Republican who is considering doing something he hasn't thought about since before the Reagan era – voting for a Democrat for president. And not just any Democrat – he's taken by Barack Obama. Why Mr. Obama? Because to Mr. LeBlanc, a Virginia writer active in Episcopal Church controversies, the Illinois senator would bring to the White House "a decisive break from President Bush's foreign policy, a shattering of the racial ceiling on the presidency, youthful energy and an exceptionally bright mind."
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Where is the “BARF” Alert?
Since when has the Episcopal church ever been considered evangelical?
LeBlanc is an idiot - change is a word but Obama has not given one specific except that he wants to take out troops from Iraq. We do not need his empty suit nor Hillary worn-out stuffed suit. I intend to hold my nose and vote R.
“Since when has the Episcopal church ever been considered evangelical?”
it’s a bit tattered and constantly abused by the current leadership, but there is an evangelical wing of the church and they have an evangelical seminary in Ambridge, PA.
Me too!
How about a STANCE on an issue? WTF?
“The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who serves as Mr. Obama’s pastor and whose sermons brought Mr. Obama to the altar for baptism, is a big fan of the black Muslim minister. Trinity UCC’s magazine gave Mr. Farrakhan, infamous for his white-bashing, anti-Semitic sermons, an award last year for his “greatness.” Mr. Wright bases his own appeal on explicitly racial lines.
Barack Obama certainly does not, and last week he repudiated Mr. Farrakhan and said he disagrees with his pastor’s decision to honor him. This isn’t the last we will hear about Pastor Wright, though. His anti-white, hard-left statements – for example, days after 9/11, he gave a sermon saying the attacks were evidence that “the Great White West” had ignored black concerns – will be hard to defend to a mainstream audience. Noting how formative Mr. Wright’s influence has been on Mr. Obama’s worldview, Rolling Stone observed: “This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from, as much Malcolm X as Martin Luther King Jr.”
Gee, now Ophama disagrees with his pastor of what 20 years, some campaign handler must have clued him in as to Calypso Louie’s negatives with the electorate. I know his membership in this church predates his college days so it’s hard to believe this disagreement with Wright is heartfelt. Support of racists like Farrakhan is at the heart of what Wright and this church are all about.
Ophama is no more Christian than my dog, and according to this article by Dreher he admits as much. Conservatives have no business being within 10 miles of this guy, he is extremely dangerous.
“I’ve been a republican all my life. blah blah blah.....”
No candidate who sees government as the solution, rather than the problem, can attract a true republican.
Period.
Anglicans are conservative. Episcopalians are liberal. Almost without exception the males who attend the Episcopal church are p==== whipped New England types who sport patches on their blazers.
Barack Hussein Obama is a nobody. Three years ago he was a sub-par State Senator from Illinois who was absent or voted “present” for a majority of votes. Without his black father (who abandoned him and his mother), he would have been laughed off the public stage a year ago.
Spend a few minutes:
The Obama File Don't Leave Home Without It.
In the 50’s the Episcopal Church was known as the Republican Party at prayer. Things have changed in the past 30+ years because it has always been a very welcoming and accepting church. Some bad guys (liberal activists) invaded, took advantage and took control.
Agreed many Episcopalians today are liberal, mostly the leadership. By generally speaking the people in the pews, especially in the South, are still conservatives.
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