Obama administration completes faith adviser list

Washington Times ^ | April 6, 2009 | Julia Duin

[Alex Murphy]

or all of you waiting with baited breath for the remaining members of President Obama's faith advisory council to be announced, today was the day the White House gave out the final few names. They are below. A few observations:

Considering that evangelicals are 26 percent of the American population, I don't see a comparative percentage of folks who fit that description on the list. And there no women among them. Now, there are plenty of female evangelical leaders around, such as Joni Eareckson Tada (who as a quadriplegic would have pleased all sorts of diversity requirements), Alveda King, Nancy Pearcey, Anne Graham Lotz, etc., so am wondering why theologically conservative Christian women were left out.

Then again, Catholics are 25 percent of the population, but I am counting only three representatives from that denomination. Jews are 2 percent of the population, but there are three representatives from their ranks.

Anju Bhargava, by the way, is a female Hindu priest. I've written before on how Obama doesn't seem to know what Buddhists are, sooo, search this list, dear readers, and see if you can find any. I cannot. Ditto for Seventh-day Adventists, Sikhs and Mormons.

There are two gay representatives on the list. According to the Washington Blade, Harry Knox, who heads up the religion and faith program for the Human Rights Campaign (a prominent homosexual group), is one and Fred Davie, head of Public/Private Ventures, is another.

Richard Stearns, a member who was announced a few weeks ago, told me the council meets this month in Washington, so the White House probably felt some pressure to come up with a full list sooner rather than later. Some folks on the list, such as Nathan Diamant, knew they were selected weeks ago.

[chase19]

“Your take is so very wrong. The Main Stream Media’s defination of “Catholic” can be shoehorned into your observation, not that of faithful Catholics.

Catholics are obliged under Canon Law to attend Mass weekly (Sat. eve or Sunday), barring a real impediment.

Many of the Catholics trumpeded as Obama supporters do not fit that criterion. Publications such as “First Things” and “Zenit” have exposed the perfidity of this so-called reporting.

Informed, truly practicing Catholics do not support the anti-Catholic, anti-life Obama.

MSM stories to the contrary are a lie. Imagine that?”

I second that...

[elpadre]

I see he must have inadvertently overlooked Bishop Vickie Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of NH, with whom he met for counseling several times during the campaign.

I know the Bishop would have accepted an invitation for he is big on these things, and himself.

[T Minus Four]

Your link says Washington Post, BTW.

And I am astounded that the Washinton Times would print the phrase “baited breath” unless we were talking about eating worms.

[Paved Paradise]

Not the real Catholics, he doesn’t. Not in my opinion. I am NOT Catholic, so I must say that on here.

Anyone who claims to follow Christ and then also voted for Obama has a lot of “splaining” to do. How anyone who could profess Christ and claim the Holy Spirit resides within them and then willingly vote for that man makes absolutely NO sense to me. Thus, they are either not true Christians and practicing the “faith” as a matter of ritual and have not ever experienced the true circumcision of the heart that comes to all believers, OR they are mentally incompetent/dumb/didn’t check the facts, etc.

I believe there might be some Christians who simply never looked into him enough to know what he really stands for but he is on the side of death in more ways than one.

[Paved Paradise]

I’m glad you clarified it for her. I am not Catholic but I’m with you. Followers of Christ bear His fruit and walk in His ways and voting for Obama and his pro-death agenda just doesn’t square with our Lord Jesus Christ.