Posted on 01/12/2008 4:07:42 AM PST by rhema
Two of the nation’s most prominent family values organizations lambasted rising Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama as “extremely” liberal and “no friend” to values voters during an analysis this week of the New Hampshire primary.
Obama, who won the Iowa caucuses and came in second in the primary, was denounced as a “fundamentalist left-winger” on social issues by Focus on the Family’s (FOTF) Tom Minnery.
Minnery, FOTF’s vice president of public policy, pointed out that Obama is against the federal marriage amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman; is against the abstinence program in sex education and for the distribution of condoms; supports a strong civil union law that would give all benefits to gay partners; supports embryonic stem cell research; and is in favor of permitting minors to cross state borders for abortion.
“This man is no friend to anything that we hold dear,” Minnery declared during the FOTF Citizenlink special.
“Without question,” chimed in Tony Perkins, president of the influential Washington-based Family Research Council.
Both Christian conservative leaders noted that Obama has built his campaign on the image of being the moderate voice and as the consensus candidate.
“He likes to say, ‘I bring people together across the aisle,’” Perkins said. “I don’t know what for, maybe for coffee or something, but it is certainly not for the past policies that are favorable for the family.”
Obama has only been in the U.S. Senate for three years, but his Illinois record is extremely liberal, according to Perkins, who was a former Louisiana state legislator. The FRC head further contended that the Illinois senator is so liberal that he challenges the establishment of the Democratic Party.
“He is to the left of Hillary Clinton, that is maybe why he isn’t talking about the issues,” Perkins noted.
Besides Obama and Clinton, the FOTF analysis also criticized New Hampshire Republican winner Sen. John McCain for being difficult to work with. Although McCain was praised for being “pretty good” on the pro-life issue, he was criticized for opposing President Bush’s policy that restricted embryonic stem cell research.
The family values leaders also did not like McCain’s stance on the federal marriage amendment, which they said has been their top issue for the past several years. McCain supports giving states the right to define marriage rather than a constitutional amendment that would set the definition of marriage as the union between a man and a woman in all 50 states.
Meanwhile, the pro-family leaders praised Republicans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney for sharing the same social values.
During the broadcast, Minnery highlighted that Obama received a score of “absolutely zero” on a recent Family Research Council (FRC) Action/Focus on the Family (FOTF) Action voter’s guide that rated all congressional members on their voting record on pro-family legislations. Clinton also scored zero on the scorecard.
Still, Obama has resonated with many African American religious leaders who created a committee last month in support of the Democratic contender. Faith leaders of the committee believe that Obama is living out his faith and values in his public life.
“As a lifelong advocate for the less fortunate and the forgotten, Senator Obama lives his faith everyday. He continues to talk about a faith that works to unite and not divide people," African American Religious Committee Co-chair the Rev. Otis Moss, Jr., has said.
Unconvinced of Obama living out his faith, Perkins advised values voters to look at all the candidates’ records and past performance rather than allow 30-second commercials to “tug at your emotions, your heart strings.”
Evangelicals across America are tired of empty promises, he said. They are looking for a president that will take the values voters’ agenda to the president’s office and “get something done.”
“Even if they don’t succeed they are willing to fight for the values that you and I believe in,” the FRC president added. “That is the candidate that we are looking for.”
Uh, have you guys heard of a more across-the-board conservative who's in the race: Fred Thompson?
The Democraps will just lable this group as nuts and extremists for being Pro Family, or Pro America. Democraps today have no moral compass. And they are proud of that. I grew up in a very conservative Oklahoma Democrat family. The party changed in early 1970s.
“extremely liberal” ie A-MORAL and mentally confuse...
FRED is THE sensible true conservative on these issues AND the others
Liberal.....and Muslim.
Well you got that right, But I think it;s important to focus on her or them first. Take them/ Her out of the contest. There will be plenty of time during the election to concentrate on the rat party as a whole. But they got to be gone!
No, because the media says the only conservatives running are Mitt, mcCain and Hucklebee.
Only stupid fools vote for the demonrats!
Obambi resonates with the black community because he identifies himself as black. (That always amused me: His father was a black moslem and his mother was a white liberal; his father abandoned both Obambi and his mother when Obambi was a small child. Obambi was raised by his white mother. Yet, he identifies with the black moslem who dumped him and not with the white liberal who raised him, cared for him, eduated him, and gave him everything. Thus, Obambi favors his “blackness” over his “whiteness”. His allegiance should be of great concern to every American.)
“The (Democratic) party changed in early 1970s.”
It did indeed.
Charges of racism to be hurled at any Obama critic.
As night follows day.
This sounds like the Clinton machine as been put in gear and started.
““This man is no friend to anything that we hold dear,””. Neither is Hitlary Clinton.
This is all I have been able to find:
“Obama walked down the aisle of Trinity Church to make a formal commitment of his faith. However, Cathleen Falsani, religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, warns us that Obama’s walking the aisle at Trinity is poles apart from what Christians commonly refer to as being “saved, transformed or washed in the blood.” In other words, it’s not to be confused with what Jesus called being “born again.”
If you know if Obama was baptized, who performed the ceremony, who attended and if there are any photos or other records of such an event, please contact.
Obama is a politician - - loves the spotlight - - one would think there would be 47,562 photographs of Obama being baptized.
One would think there would be at least one newspaper story describing the ceremony - - there isn’t.
I am now of the mind that Obama has to prove to me that he is a baptized Christian - - I don’t believe he ever converted.
Prove me wrong.
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