Obama: A Man of Faith or Falacy?

I don't get this at all. Obama as expected is attempting to court the "evangelical voters". At the same time he is campaigning on the other side of the fence.

Obama had a recent meeting that included Franklin Graham, T.D. Jakes and about 30 other religious leaders. Late in 2006, Obama had stood on the stage of Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, declaring his faith in the context of fighting HIV/AIDS, gladly taking on the mantle of implied endorsement.

Now watch as he jumps the fence. In a letter to Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club read Sunday at the group's annual Pride Breakfast in San Francisco, the Illinois senator said he supports extending "fully equal rights and benefits to same-sex couples under both state and federal law."

Soon the Obama campaign will begin appearing on Christian radio and Internet outlets, and they’ll be hosting thousands of “American Values House Parties,” where attendees will discuss Obama and religion.

Not all leaders are falling for this production. Dr. James Dobson said “I think he’s (Obama) deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology” Amen to that Dr D!

When it comes to the issue of abortion Obama has said he want to "discourage the practice of abortion.” Yet he has a 100 percent voting record supporting it.

I realize that Obama is not a pastor. For that matter neither is Dr. Dobson. However, a Christian should have a basic knowledge of Scripture and what God does/does not allow.

In a recent speech, Obama claimed his support the homosexual agenda was based on the Sermon on the Mount, not on some passage in the “obscure” book of Romans. By "obscure" did he mean the part that most homosexuals ignore? You know the one that warns: “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another…. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion” (Romans 1: 18, 24, 26-27). Heck let's just rip those pages out. They can only be considered obscure if they are ignored and forgotten.

My concern here is not so much with Obama. It's more with the evangelical lemmings that drool over the glow of limelight that is cast on them when Obama enters the room.

So who lined to meet Obama? Rev. Stephen Thurston, head of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., the Rev. T. Dewitt Smith, president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., and Bishop Phillip Robert Cousin Sr., an A.M.E. clergyman and former NAACP board member. Catholic constitutional lawyer Doug Kmiec; evangelical author Max Lucado of San Antonio; Cameron Strang, founder of Relevant Media, which is aimed at young Christians; the Rev. Luis Cortes of Esperanza USA; and Paul Corts, president of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities. Yet the campaign only released three names.

Let me address the "catholic" representative Doug Kmiec. Kmiec was denied Communion in April at a Mass for Catholic business people because he had endorsed Obama. While Kmiec is himself pro-life, his mere endorsement of Obama is damaging to the Catholic message. Just as Obama's support of abortion and homosexual rights is damaging to the Christian message. Are faith leaders already too blind to see this?