Family Research Council Pooh-Poohs Obama Faith-Based Initiative
Wednesday July 2, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Christian Right, evangelicals, Family Research Council Action, gay marriage, John McCain, Tony Perkins
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More mendacious and distorting rhetoric from the Family Research Council. Obama has made a good-faith effort to build on the Faith Based initiatives and the FRC, never missing a chance to show it's partisanship, can only find problems with it. If they were truly interested in advancing the cause for Christianity, they would welcome this effort by the Obama campaign.
McCain, Obama and George Bush have similar positions on gay marriage - they oppose it. We can nuance the rhetoric anyway we want, but that's the fact - research it.
Abortion rate was LOWER during the Clinton admnistration than in the past 7 years of George Bush whom I supported partly because he's pro-ife. Evangelical leaders and Christian advocacy groups make a dangerous assumption that a Republican candidate is better for people of faith. They're going to lose us for good if they do not realize that most of their flock prefer Obama to McCain. As was the case with Burress who was first against McCain. After recently meeting with McCain, Burress is now supporting the presumptive GOP nominee and speaking against Obama.
HAS BURRESS MET WITH OBAMA? The answer is an emphatic NO. By being against Obama without meeting with him, he continues to show the same terrible judgment he showed when he criticized McCain without first meeting with him.
Once more, the Zealots are taking the words of Obama and twisting them to mean the opposite of what was said. Obama supports the constitutional right for California to protect marriage. He opposes the Courts right to invalidate the amendments passed by the people. He has publicly express his rejection of "gay marriage" and the efforts of FRC is a swift boat type PAC and should be ignored and scoffed.
Your headline connecting the "Family" "Research" council and pooh pooh was prescient and very revealing, Dan.
Pooh pooh accurately sums up the "research" they 'do'.
Since when is bearing false witness no longer a sin? And how come groups like the FRC, FotF, etc. can get away with it so often and so much?
Perkins is mendacious to say the least...
Perkins says "he [Obama] scorned man-woman marriage"
Yet Obama does no such thing. He said, "I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution [to protect marriage], and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of any other states."
How is that 'scorning" man-woman marriage? Hetterosexual men and women are still getting married in Massachusetts, California, Canada, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, South Africa, etc. now that gays are likewise allowed to marry. No divisive legislation was needed in any of those places to enshrine discrimination into the Constitution.
No one ever says what traditional marriage needs to be "protected" from. Why that?
And Dan, you say, "God-o-Meter is interested to learn what portion of the money from President Bush's office of faith-based initiatives is currently going to programs focused on promoting one- man, one-woman marriage".
Two questions arise...
Why do heterosexuals (who already can get married) need the institution "promoted"? (And at gay tax-payers' expense, no less?)
And why should the faith-based initiatives only "promote" opposite-sex marriages when clearly there are many faiths that perform same-sex marriages? Why the favouritism? Seems heterosexism is alive and kicking here on God-o-Rama. Sad.
No comment Dan? I'm saddened but not surprised.
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