Posted on 06/23/2007 12:39:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Says Some Have `hijacked' Faith Jun 23 03:24 PM US/Eastern By STEPHEN SINGER Associated Press Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right- wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division.
"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked," the Democratic presidential candidate said in remarks prepared for delivery before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ.
"Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us," the Illinois senator said.
"At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design," according to an advance copy of his speech.
"There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich," Obama said. "I don't know what Bible they're reading, but it doesn't jibe with my version."
Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ, a church of about 1.2 million members that is considered one the most liberal of the mainline Protestant groups.
In 1972, the church was the first to ordain an openly gay man. Two years ago, the church endorsed same-sex marriage, the largest Christian denomination to do so. Obama believes that states should decide whether to allow gay marriage, and he opposes a constitutional amendment against it.
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Who in their right mind thinks this idiot is a viable presidential candidate?
The Crypto-Muslim Hussein Obama knows a lot about hijacking religions, since he is a pseudo-Christian.
So now Obama can read hearts and minds of church leaders? Who would have known?
I love to see Obama repeatedly shoot himself in the foot....
NEXT!!!
“Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in remarks prepared for delivery before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ. “
It got hijacked all right. It took a left turn off the road to morality and over the cliff of anything goes.
It must be so. He learned it in a Madrassa. Praise Allah, or whoever.
Let's put God in our box where he/she belongs!
What? Musta missed that memo.
Funny how he says the Christian right is politicizing Christianity when his church is EXTREMELY political and his pastor is well known as a black activist.
Man this guy is such an empty suit.
media puppet is all this stool is for........
makes the media racist and Obamama an opportunists huh
34"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Dear Senator Hussein Obama, that's because your version is either the Quran or the Communist manifesto.
No Obama - right-wing evangelical leaders (and others) are trying to preserve religious beleifs.
Well...look who’s calling the kettle....
Trying to figure out what he is talking about here is like trying to nail jell-o to the wall.
It’s a sad indictment of the current state of this country that this guy has a serious chance of being our next president.
I hope he blasts his toes into oblivion.
It’s a depressing thought that the entire state of Illinois should be populated by idiots. But I guess that happens.
I always like going to church to hear about politics... /sarc
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