Posted on 08/09/2019 3:15:04 PM PDT by Ennis85
Seventy-seven percent of Americans identify as members of a religious tradition, and most of the rest call themselves spiritual or say they believe in God. When politicians start talking about “reaching out to people of faith,” they might be talking about almost everybody.
But the Rev. Shawna Foster thinks a lot of people are being left out.
“The conversation about religion and politics has been dominated by one particular type of religion. ... It can be so much more,” she said. “I want to make sure the campaign is really reaching out to faiths that typically haven’t had much say in politics — Native American spirituality, Sikh spirituality, Bahais.”
It will be Foster’s new job to bring Pete Buttigieg’s message to all of those people, as his faith outreach director.
The Democratic mayor of South Bend, Ind., is the first 2020 presidential candidate to hire someone for such a position.
It’s an area that Hillary Clinton was criticized for underutilizing in her unsuccessful 2016 campaign for president, in the view of some religious leaders within the Democratic Party. In the 2020 campaign, many Democrats have spoken openly of their own faith and their desire to strategically connect with religious communities.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who like Buttigieg frequently quotes Scripture and talks about his own moral commitments while he’s on the campaign trail, is in the process of hiring a faith outreach director, as well, and has already brought on a minister in South Carolina to work specifically on connecting with churches in that state.
Buttigieg and Booker are following in the path of former president Barack Obama in focusing on faith outreach. Obama employed staff and volunteers on both his campaigns and in the White House to focus on faith partnerships, including roles geared specifically toward communities such as
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Who is that? Satan?
I dislike a lot of things about Buttplug. But the thing I dislike the most is his false claim that he is somehow a Christian. He just isn’t. He wallows in sin and thumbs his nose at God.
What...he hire a Satanic Church high priest for his outreach director?
[ “The conversation about religion and politics has been dominated by one particular type of religion. ... It can be so much more,” she said. “I want to make sure the campaign is really reaching out to faiths that typically haven’t had much say in politics — Native American spirituality, Sikh spirituality, Bahais.” ]
The One World Religion is coming. In many ways, it’s already here.
Buttplug has about as much chance of attracting Christian voters as he does of escaping Hell
ONE WORD:
MARANATHA!
Close. She’s a lesbian Unitarian who fled the Episcopal Church because it’s so strict.
unitarian universalist ..... yup.
Which Rector?
The times, they are a-changing....
LoL. I didn’t read the article, but when I saw the headline, my first thought was, “probably a lesbian.”
HAVE HOMO SEX!! I DEMAND YOU!
I think Pete ButtBoy and Corey Buttboy’s faith outreach program is based on one theme, “Keep the baby, Faith”, we ain’t your sugar daddy”.
Oh, I forgot who they really are. NEVER MIND!!
You should have been with me over 10 years ago when I had a guy asking me if I really knew Jesus. Made a big deal about it, too.
Later, not much later, he would go on to tell me about how great Obama was.
Knowing how I felt about Obama, he eventually stopped talking to me at all.
I submit his “jesus” (small “j” on purpose) was the Social “gospel” “jesus”.
Pretty funny. He’s hiring someone to give him “guidance” in regard to his “faith”.
“Who is that? Satan?”
No doubt.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better ~ Laurie Anderson
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