Posted on 03/24/2012 10:23:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, who was campaigning in Louisiana ahead of Saturday's primary, told reporters he believes President Barack Obama is a Christian but his behavior is causing many Americans to think he is a Muslim.
Former House Speaker Gingrich said Friday, the day before Louisiana will hold its primary, that perceptions over Obama's faith were not baseless. "It should bother the president. Why does the president behave the way that people would think that?" Gingrich said after a speech on Louisiana's Gulf Coast when reporters asked about polls indicating many Americans think Obama is a Muslim. "You have to ask why would they believe that? It's not because they're stupid. It's because they watch the kind of things I just described to you."
Public Policy Polling recently found that 52 percent of the GOP primary voters in Mississippi and 45 percent in Alabama thought Obama was a Muslim.
Gingrich referred to the Obama administration's contraceptive mandate which requires all employer-based health plans to provide free contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs for employees; and the president's apology last month over an accidental burning of the Quran in Afghanistan by U.S. troops which led to attacks on Americans stationed in that country.
Gingrich, who is a Catholic convert, clarified, "I have said publicly several times that I believe Obama is a Christian. He went to a Christian church for over 20 years. He was listening to the sermons." However, he added, "I think it is very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to Muslim religious fanatics while they are killing young Americans while at the same time going to war against the Catholic Church and against every right-to-live Protestant organization in the country. I just think it's a very strange value system."
Before he became president, Obama attended a United Church of Christ congregation in Chicago. After taking office, he has only occasionally attended churches in the Washington area.
Gingrich raised the issue several times earlier this week in Louisiana. "First, look you need to understand the elite media is in the tank for Obama. They're going to do anything that helps re-elect Obama. They're totally committed to Obama. It is just astonishing to me how pro-Obama they are," he told the Sandy Rios in the Morning radio show Thursday. "You think you're going to see two pages on Obama's Muslim friends? Or two pages on the degree to which Obama's persistently apologizing to Islam while attacking the Catholic Church? Do you see anybody in the elite media prepared to see say, 'Gee, you know this is kind of odd that we really worry a lot about the Quran and nothing about the Bible?'"
On Wednesday, Gingrich said at a stop in Pineville, "They're anti-religious unless it's Islam. This is the heart of the Obama problem, the dilemma he has." He also told Fox News, "Why is it he's more sensitive to radical Islamists who are killing young Americans than he is to the Catholic Church, to Baptists, to fundamentalists. I mean, the fact is, this is a very strange presidency."
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who is leading in polls in Louisiana, also spoke Friday about Obama's pro-Muslim "bias." "You know, it's not surprising this president will go down in history here as the president who has embraced radical Islamic groups," he told the Sean Hannity radio show.
Amid doubts about his faith, Obama has reaffirmed his Christian beliefs. During a 2010 backyard discussion in New Mexico, he revealed that the "precepts of Jesus Christ" drew him to Christianity and affirmed that "we achieve salvation through the grace of God." He has also spoken about his faith during prayer breakfasts and holidays including Christmas.
He behaves like a secularist who sees a political advantage in calling himself christian.
I don’t think Obama ever was a Chistian.
He is Muslim through and through.
“A Christian can not say another Christian is not a Christian.”
Aren’t individuals known by their deeds.
Isn’t that (Obama is not a Christian) exactly what Gingrich is saying of Obama?
Oh, I get it now. To the Newties, their guy can’t say or do any wrong like Kings of old.
You're missing the point. Newt knows better than to claim outright that Bozo is a Muslim, the MSM would be all over it. However, he can point out that Bozo's behavior towards Muslims and Christians is decidedly in favor of Muslims because it is true and a matter of record and the MSM can't deny it. Thus his "Christian but acts Muslim" statement and then points out all the pro muslim and anti Christian things Bozo has done.
actualy, he is a muslim who behaves like a marxist
Gingrich thinks Obama is against abortion, and not pro-homosexual, etc.?
Yes, Chritians are known by their deeds. Which is exactly what Newt said. Obammy is a “Christian” who acts like a Muslim; which is why so many suspect that he is a Muslim. Perfect tone; knee capping the Left.
if it walk like a duck, etc.
What might make him President of the Confederacy or Prime Minister of New France or King of Louisiana won't help him much to win the November election in this reality.
“.........while consistently doing the bidding of his benefactors: George Soros, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan and the Saudi/Wahab cabal.
I took the liberty of adding one more group to your list. I think Zero committed a faux pas by bowing to the Saudi king...his muslim master, letting the cat out of the bag; and then tried to cover it over by bowing to everyone else but the janitor on subsequent visits to other venues. IMHO
If so, then Newt should have said “Obama says he’s a Christian but acts like a Muslim” which is vastly different from what he actually said.
Barack Obama is not a Christian; that fact is beyond obvious, and I'm disappointed in Gingrich for saying that he is a Christian.
Word.
Brilliant statement, considering what Wright was preaching. Remember, Obama said he never listened to the sermons?
You mean Vesty has foot and mouth disease. Newt is right on...there are catholics who dont view other faiths as christian and vice versa.
“On Wednesday, Gingrich said at a stop in Pineville, “They’re anti-religious unless it’s Islam. This is the heart of the Obama problem, the dilemma he has.” He also told Fox News, “Why is it he’s more sensitive to radical Islamists who are killing young Americans than he is to the Catholic Church, to Baptists, to fundamentalists. I mean, the fact is, this is a very strange presidency.”
Amen Newt!
Vesty is a pious little fraud that endoses pro choice candidates and voted for pro choice judges. I am beginning to question whether he is a true christian
Twisted logic don’t ya know. That Santorum is now considered a “fraud” because he voted for a Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee who in turn insured Justice Alito’s nomination, and of course Sotomayor was nominated to the bench by Bush pere and she swore that the constitution meant what it said and voted to uphold a partial birth abortion ban while being a federal district judge and all the recent polls show that the “hard” conservatives are voting overwhelmingly for Santorum, Nice try from guys trying to defend the electability of a guy who calls for establishing permanent lunar base colonies in eight years, pie-in-the-sky-chicken-in-every-pot $2.50 gas/gallon in two years, and is finishing either third or dead last in the recent primary contests.
Can’t remember the exact words.
0bamao stated he would stand by the muslims before anyone else.
That says it all.
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