Posted on 06/30/2008 7:39:17 PM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON Politically speaking, Susan Speakman is a different kind of evangelical.
Mrs. Speakman, 59, a pastor and educator at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Bridgeville, Pa., an activist evangelical church southwest of Pittsburgh, backs Senator Barack Obama in the presidential race. Along with her 23-year-old son, Stephen, she supports Mr. Obama because of his stands on the Iraq war and matters of social justice. The two of them plan to spread the word in their community and beyond.
What caught my attention early on was his comment that we dont want red states and blue states, but we want to find reconciliation and rapprochement with folks, said Mrs. Speakman, who changed her party affiliation to Democratic from Republican this year to vote for Mr. Obama in the Pennsylvania primary. I really object to the other approach divide and conquer, isolate and demonize the opposition. I try to engage the other side and try to find ways we can bring the values of the kingdom of God into the experience of humanity.
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No, they are voting that way because they are liberals and have a blindness to the truth and righteousness of God.
If they were voting color, then Alan Keyes would be who they would back. He's the most Godly of all the candidates, the most conservative of all the candidates, the only candidate that understands that Americas move to the left is due to her sin and that America must revive itself by repentance, ie abortion, gay marriage, kicking God out of the puplic square, etc.,
So since Keyes is black and they are not backing him, it must be because these churches that were interviewed are anti-truth thus in reality anti-God, anti-conservative, anti-revival, and anti-righteousness.
Leave it to the NYT to find the ONLY evangelical supporting Obama. LOL. I don’t know one practicing Christian who’s voting for Barry.
“If you see abortion as equal to anti-abortion, that is your right, as skewed as it is.”
That’s not what was being said in the least. The point is both misuse the Bible for their own purposes - NARAL with regards to the abortion issue and Big govt evangelicals with regards to govt spending and power. One needs to reread the part about “thou shall not kill: and the other needs to see the part about “thou shall not steal.”
I don’t know who the big gov evangelicals are. I’m sure there are some out there, but the ones I know are all small government types.
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