Religion and the Candidates

Campus Report ^ | June 20, 2008 | Rachel Paulk

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Religion and the Candidates

Rachel Paulk, June 20, 2008

Religion remains a point of interest regarding the presidential candidates in the upcoming 2008 election, with significant media attention devoted towards both Senator Barack Obama’s and Senator John McCain’s religious preferences. Both endorse Christianity in some form, yet both stray from widely accepted Christian viewpoints on specific social issues.

Between McCain and Obama, Obama has been more vocal about religion, especially given the heightened concentration on his 20-year membership at the Trinity United Church of Christ under the controversial Jeremiah Wright.

Obama stated at The Compassion Forum, an event held at the (Anabaptist) Messiah College, that “…I am a devout Christian, that I started my work working with churches in the shadow of steel plants that had closed on the south side of Chicago,” and queried, “what are our obligations religiously, in terms of doing good works, and how does that inform our politics?”

Yet despite his religious rhetoric, Obama endorses opinions on abortion diametrically opposed to basic Christian values on the sanctity of life. As an unapologetic supporter of pro-choice legislation, Obama said the following in an interview with CBN News:

“One of the things I have always said is that abortion is a deeply moral issue, and those that would deny a moral component to it I think are wrong. The reason that I make a decision to support the choice position is not because I don’t think it’s a moral issue, I trust women to make a prayerful decision about this issue.”

Though he alleges a moral component to abortion, he defends his pro-choice position using the ideals of trust and prayerful decisions. Obama forgets that Christian principles remain staunchly opposed to abortion in all forms, and his image of a woman’s prayerful consideration, while touching, is unrealistic....

[Disturbin]

“I trust women to make a prayerful decision about this issue”

He is clueless.

[hellbender]

The reason that I make a decision to support the choice position is not because I don’t think it’s a moral issue, I trust women to make a prayerful decision about this issue.”

More of the diabolical, legalistic, doubletalk and newspeak from the first Marxist major party candidate. Calling it a "moral issue," but failing to take any stand against it. As if anyone would "prayerfully" decide to commit infanticide, which is what he has voted to make and keep legal.

[vpintheak]

Obama, I can’t even begin to show you your outright contradictions with Scripture. Just to touch a few:
1. Abortion = Murder
2. Homosexuality = Abomination
3. Excessive Taxation = Stealing