Associated Press Reports: As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest names, James Dobson, accused the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution.
“Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?” Obama said. “Would we go with James Dobson’s or Al Sharpton’s?” referring to the civil rights leader.
Dobson took aim at examples Obama cited in asking which Biblical passages should guide public policy — chapters like Leviticus, which Obama said suggests slavery is OK and eating shellfish is an abomination, or Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, “a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application.”
“Folks haven’t been reading their Bibles,” Obama said.
Dobson and Minnery accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus’ teachings in the New Testament.
In Chicago earlier this month, June 10, 2008, Barack Obama met with prominent Christian Leaders, like Bishop T. D. Jakes and and pro-life Catholic constitutional law professor Doug Kmiec. As CBN’s David Brody reported, A campaign source tells me that besides Jakes and Kmiec, other religious leaders in the room today include Rich Cizik with the conservative National Association of Evangelicals, best selling Christian author Max Lucado, Luis Cortes, Paul Corts, Cameron Strang, Bishop Phillip Cousin, Rev Stephen Thurston, Glenn Palmberg and Dr T Dewitt Smith. This campaign source tells me:
“Reaching out to the faith community is a priority for Barack Obama and will be a priority under an Obama Administration. This is one of several meetings he will have over the coming months with religious leaders.”
If Obama is trying to reach out to the faith community should he use Scriptures for political spin?
“I think he’s deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology,” Dobson told the Associated Press.
“… He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.”
Dobson strongly opposes Obama for his argument that the religiously motivated must frame debates over issues like abortion not just in their own religion’s terms but in arguments accessible to all people.
Dobson argues, “Am I required in a democracy to conform my efforts in the political arena to his bloody notion of what is right with regard to the lives of tiny babies?” Dobson said. “What he’s trying to say here is unless everybody agrees, we have no right to fight for what we believe.”
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I am very concerned and disturbed that we have a candidate running for the highest office in the USA who obvously does not believe that the entire bible is the inspired word of God. I was very outraged when i read the things that he said obout the bible, ln the old and new testament It especially hurt and concerned me when I read what he said about Jesus and his Sermon on the Mount. I was already shocked and apalled over his answers to Rev. Rick Warren when asked what Jesus Christ means to him and if his faith gives him assurane that he will go to heaven. Ater “beating around the bush” on the question about “good works,ect. he finally said what I had already suspected about his “so call faith”. He ended his oratation with “I hope I go to heaven”, with a nervous chuckle. I know that not everyone heard this, but with all the media coverage,this should he been blasted across the airlines and in the newspaper. All Christiaans who will be voting need to know what he said. Why doesn’t McCain and his accociates get all this infomation to the public, in the form of political ads, or in just their speeches? Based on I John 5:13, we Christians all know that Jesus Christ came not only to forgive us our sins and give us eternal life, but to give us the assurance of that eternal life. It says I write these these things unto you that believethat you may know you have eternal life. Christianity is not a Hope so religion, but a know so” religion. When Obama said that, it just confirmed to me what I already was feeling in my spirit. He is a fake, trying to us his “I am a Christian” statement to get some undeserving votes. In turn, John McCain was very quick to answer the question like any genuine Christian would. He said “Jesus Chrst is my personal Lord and Saviour, I have been born again, and I know that I have a home in Heaven”. Don’t all Christians need to know this ??????Why hasn’t this been used against him in an ad or in a political speech? I know we have a liberal press, but I haven’t even seen this on Fox News. Can’t preachers speak from the pulpit about this important issue, or are they not allowed to do so? Please answer my concerns. Is ther anything I can do to help spread this horrific news? Lucretia Landrum
I sent you a rather lengthly e-mail about Obama and I asked for a reply. I noted after I had pressed the send button, that there was some typo errors in my e-mail adress. I tried to change it, but it was too late to do that. Please note my correct e-mail address, so you can reply to me. thank you and God Bless you for your ministry. Lucretia landrum