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Obama and his crowd have definitely telegraphed their intention to stifle deviation from the narrow confines of their heresies if given the chance.
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Did ABC pay for this story?
What planet is he from?
Is Dobson a religious figure or a political figure?
After his invovlement in the disaster that was Harriet Miers, one would think Dobson would have some humility about jumping into political matters.
Shut up, Dobson.
Oh my...the "drive-bi's" aren't gonna like that.
Oh yeah, I'm sure you had your nose deep in biblical truth for 20 years, listening to that fine example of your brand of "christianity," Rev Wright. Uh-huh.
This is just precious. It's the typical liberal tactic of responding to the statement that was NEVER made. When people would say America is a christian nation that does not mean that America is "just" a christian nation. It simply means that America is predominately a christian nation (using the traditional definition of a christian nation).
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Dubois is the one standing...
Joshua Dubois, Sen. Obama’s director of religious affairs, is guarded in discussing his personal positions. The stepson of an African Methodist Episcopal minister, he did not offer his view of abortion during a WORLD interview.
DuBois, who maintains membership at a United Pentecostal Council Assemblies of God church in Cambridge, Mass.
Tapping DuBois to manage the faith outreach of his prospective campaign fits well with the Illinois senator’s consistent efforts to project an evangelical image.
DuBois admits that Obama’s outspoken faith only appears novel in light of Democrats’ recent deference to the party’s avowed secularists. In reality, Obama’s brand of religiosity amounts to a social gospel, emphasizing the humanitarian example of Jesus over the way His death and resurrection solves humanity’s sin problem. “The progressive movement in the early part of the last century was infused with Christian values and people of faith—same with the civil-rights movement,” DuBois said. “So this isn’t a new thing, but it’s a good thing that it’s happening now.”
“Some folks on the left are uncomfortable with these topics,” DuBois said.
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DuBois noted, it was during this time that Obama changed his personal faith and began his long association with his church, Trinity United Church of Christ.
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Mark DeMoss, a spokesman for the Rev. Franklin Graham, said Graham attended and asked Obama whether “he thought Jesus was the way to God, or merely a way.” DeMoss declined to discuss Obama’s response.
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October 23, 2007
Obama is touring with a singer who hates gay people. Obama’s religious affairs director, Joshua DuBois, has responded to the criticism.
Singers on the tour include Donnie McClurkin, who has crusaded against homosexuality and who says he is a former homosexual. For information on his book Eternal Victim/Eternal Victor, in which he describes his “bout” with homosexuality
In a statement on his website, Obama said he disagrees with McClurkin’s views on homosexuality, but he did not cancel the appearance.
Among those asking Obama to cancel the event was Wayne Besen, executive director of the gay advocacy group Truth Wins Out. “Obama’s statement was inadequate and we are disappointed that he failed to sever ties with Donnie McClurkin,” Besen said today on the group’s website.
Joshua DuBois, the campaign’s religious affairs director, said in announcing it: “This is another example of how Barack Obama is defying conventional wisdom about how politics is done and giving new meaning to meeting people at the grassroots level. This concert tour is going to bring new people into the political process and engage people of faith in an unprecedented way.”
Joshua DuBois, Office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama, 202-228-6144
NCC News: Dan Webster, 212-870-2258, dwebster@councilofchurches.org
Associated with the National Council of Churches who hired Greg Craig as the attorney who help to send Elian Gonzales back to Castro’s Cuba.
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“We are writing to deplore this despicable tactic,” said the Rev. Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, and eight other leaders. “We have had enough of the slash and burn politics calculated to divide us as children of God,” said the leaders today in an open letter to the religious community.
“I’ve been saying for awhile now that we must not let fear, fundamentalism and Fox News set our nation’s agenda,” said NCC’s Edgar separately. “Now it appears Fox News is using a political candidate to further foment a fear of fundamentalism in hopes of dividing Americans and pitting people of faith against one another. Faithful Americans must stand up and say no to such sinful behavior,” Edgar said.
Dr. Robert W. Edgar
General Secretary
National Council of Churches USA
Joshua DuBois was a grad student at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School when Obama delivered his convention speech. DuBois, who had become an associate pastor at a small evangelical church while still an undergrad at Boston University, says he was “enthralled” by Obama’s references to faith. “I had been struggling with an internal conflict: what does God want me to do?” he says. He sent a letter to Obama asking for a job—and got a rejection form letter back. So DuBois drove to Washington, walked up to the front desk at Obama’s Senate office and dropped off his résumé in person. Two months later he was hired and eventually became Obama’s director of faith outreach.
DuBois, who is 25, now has the lofty title of national director of religious affairs for the Obama campaign. Real-world translation: he works 20-hour days trying to persuade priests, pastors, rabbis and clerics to endorse his boss—and, more important, to spread the word to their flocks. DuBois, who is tethered to a BlackBerry that is never not ringing—”Hiya, Father, I had a quick question for you …”—commands a team of six full-time religious outreach staffers and hundreds of volunteers and surrogates around the country. There’s no way to tell if DuBois’s efforts are having much of an effect on the way people vote—or on their perceptions of Obama.
speaking of fruitcakes.
