Now here's a true believer. He really cares about his spirituality /s/
"With his head bowed, the younger Brazier said as worshipers joined hands, “We ask that you give him great wisdom, knowledge, power and understanding. We pray that you give him the mind of Christ, so that when he speaks, demons will tremble, mountains will be removed, and when the firing guards of the enemy are flung his way, that the prayers of the saved protect him and let the world know that no weapon formed against him shall prosper.”
Wait, sounds like an endorsement to me...Aren't the churches not allowed to do that? Shouldn't this one lose its tax-shelter benefits?
“Obama cultivated clients like Bishop Arthur M. Brazier, the influential pastor of an 18,000-member black church and founding president of the Woodlawn Organization.”
The Woodlawn Organization was founded by radical Saul Alinsky
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Mr. Obama further expanded his list of allies by joining the boards of two well-known charities: the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation.
These memberships have allowed him to help direct tens of millions of dollars in grants over the years to groups that championed the environment, campaign finance reform, gun control and other causes supported by the liberal network he was cultivating. Mr. Brazier’s group, the Woodlawn Organization, received money, for instance, as did antipoverty groups with ties to organized labor like Chicago Acorn, whose endorsement Mr. Obama sought and won in his State Senate race.
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Some proponents were bused in by The Woodlawn Organization—founded by Leon Finney Jr., who sits on the Plan Commission.
Woodlawn Organization (T.W.O., later to become The Woodlawn Organization) began to lead a unified movement for self-determination in the community. Dr. Brazier was founding president of the organization.
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Georgette Greenlee-Finney, executive director of the Woodlawn Organization.
Greenlee-Finney’s the wife of the organization’s CEO and president, Leon Finney Jr. Finney, a big Daley ally, is a member of the Chicago Plan Commission
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Brazier’s group, the Woodlawn Organization, received money, for instance, as did antipoverty groups with ties to organized labor like Chicago Acorn, whose endorsement Obama sought and won in his State Senate race.
On the campaign trail, Obama hewed closely to liberal orthodoxy, positions that have become controversial in the presidential race. A candidate questionnaire from one liberal group, for instance, detailed his views on hot-button issues like the death penalty (opposed) and a ban on handguns (in favor).
Does that mean Obama will finally get baptized and be a real Christian?
I'll be watching.
http://www.acog-chicago.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=43