Posted on 06/24/2008 9:19:53 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
MEDIA ADVISORY, June 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- Commenting on Senator Barack Obama's recent meeting with a group of prominent Christians, Vision America Action President Dr. Rick Scarborough, a Southern Baptist minister, said the Senator did nothing to reconcile his actions and words with his professed Christianity.
"Claiming you're a Christian isn't enough," Scarborough said.
"Here's a man who doesn't deviate one iota from the extreme leftwing of his party, when it comes to values issues," the Vision America Action President charged. "He supports partial-birth abortion. As a member of the Illinois State Senate, he had a 100% perfect rating from Planned Parenthood."
Scarborough added: "When it comes to gay rights, Obama could easily be mistaken for Barney Frank. As a member of the U.S. Senate, he had a 100% favorable rating from the homosexual Human Rights Campaign. He wants to repeal the military's don't-ask/don't-tell policy. He supports hate-crimes legislation, which would punish preachers who speak the word of God about homosexuality. He even supports civil unions. Though he says he opposes gay marriage, he voted against the Marriage Protection Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
Scarborough noted that in a speech earlier this year, Obama said Jesus would have embraced homosexuals, citing the Sermon on the Mount.
"Jesus would have embraced them as sinners, but rejected their sin," Scarborough explained.
"For me, the most amazing part of this speech was when the Senator referred to the Book of Romans, which condemns homosexuality in no uncertain terms – as do Genesis and Leviticus – as an 'obscure text,'" Scarborough said. "As any committed Christian knows, it is fundamental to Christianity. This 'obscure' book is credited with launching the Reformation. I wonder how Martin Luther and John Calvin would feel about Obama's assertion."
"For Obama, it seems, political correctness on certain social issues, rather that Holy Scripture, is his final authority for faith and practice." Scarborough commented. "When a man publicizes his 'Christianity' far and wide, Christians have every right to check him out. Based on the record, one can only conclude that Barack Obama does not adhere to traditional Christianity."
Vision America Action is a leader of Values Voters. It is presently conducting voter education campaigns in New Hampshire, New Mexico and a number of other states, aimed at educating, mobilizing and activating Christian voters.
Oh...RICK Scarborough....for a second there, I thought it was Joe...and was accordingly looking for a satire tag!
That’d leave a mark, if the Media didn’t control the information so well.
I like this Scarborough guy!
He’s my kind of preacher!
Obama’s values: “Don’t punish them with a baby!”..... Abort my grandchildren.
Sadly, for half of the country, it is enough.
The world according to Barack Hussein Obama.
No thanks.
When and where was Barack Obama baptised? He proclaims himself to be a Christian. Just like I wonder where the “Reverend” Al Sharpton got his title. Where did he study?
Don’t cling to religion. Be a new kind of Christian. CINO.
Jesus WOULD have embraced homosexuals as sinners...but...what would he have said to them?
“Repent and sin no more.”
That’s what.
Only one man still running for President that has a grasp on traditional Christianity and that is Alan Keyes.
Keyes’ Christianity permeates his worldview which acts as a filter for all he stands for. He is definitely anti-political correctness, but pro-Biblical correctness.
Why those so frustrated with McCain don’t grasp on to Keyes, including Dobson for that matter, I don’t know. Out of all those running, he has the most conservative credentials.
Oh, and by the way, for all those who are voting for Obama because he is black, might I offer Keyes? He appears to be darker skinned, if that kind of shallowness is what makes up your vote.
http://www.americasrevival.com
First Dobson, now Scarborough. I have a feeling others will speak out too.
McCain is pro-life. I will vote for him on just that one issue.
I was wondering whether he was pro-life? Why is Dobson so much against McCain, if McCain is pro-life? To me that is one of my hottest button issues.
McCain, being the maverick that he is, came out at one time for embryonic stem-cell research. I really don’t think he will move forward on this.
I think the pro-life issue is paramount.
John McCain’s site:
“John McCain believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and as president he will nominate judges who understand that courts should not be in the business of legislating from the bench.”
“Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to the individual states. The difficult issue of abortion should not be decided by judicial fiat.”
“However, the reversal of Roe v. Wade represents only one step in the long path toward ending abortion. Once the question is returned to the states, the fight for life will be one of courage and compassion - the courage of a pregnant mother to bring her child into the world and the compassion of civil society to meet her needs and those of her newborn baby.”
McCain sees the fight at the State level.
Alan Keye’s site:
“If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, then there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to human offspring in the womb.”
“The Declaration states plainly that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with our basic human rights. But if human beings can decide who is human and who is not, the doctrine of God-given rights is utterly corrupted.”
“For these and similar reasons, abortion must be understood as the unjust taking of a human life, and a breach of the fundamental principles of our public moral creed.”
Keye’s see the fight at the foundation of all of America’s existence.
If voting on just this one issue, then Keye’s stance is a stronger one.
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