Posted on 04/23/2015 7:27:08 PM PDT by presidio9
A national evangelical Christian leader has written that his fellow believers should vote for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, because she will radically reduce the abortion rate.
Hillary, in whose campaign abortion industry lobbyists play a conspicuous role, favors abortion-on-demand throughout pregnancy. Yet Tony Campolo believes a second Clinton presidency will halve the number of abortions nationwide.
“Hillary Clinton is one of the few candidates on the political stage who has a plan for cutting the abortion rate in America by at least 50 percent,” Campolo, a sociology professor emeritus at Eastern University, wrote in a debate on Religion News Service on April 13.
His piece, entitled “Why Christians Should Vote for Hillary,” admitted that “some of my Evangelical friends raise questions about her views on abortion,” but that is misplaced.
“Abortions will not be ended through legislation,” he wrote. Instead, America needs a president committed to implementing interventionist economic programs and “diminishing the urgency that drives so many oppressed women into having abortions.”
Campolo, who acted as an adviser to President Bill Clinton following his affair with Monica Lewinsky, praised Hillary's faith and role as a committed wife.
“I know Hillary Clinton to be a committed Christian,” because she “was one of the most faithful attendees of the Senate’s weekly prayer meetings,” he vouched.
Her decision not to divorce Bill Clinton after his serial philandering went public, he said, “showed that the promises she made to her husband on their wedding day were binding through better and worse.”
On the subject of marriage itself, Campolo favors government-recognized civil unions for homosexuals. Hillary recently endorsed same-sex “marriage” as a constitutional right.
In the opinion piece for the liberal religious news outlet, Campolo extolled Hillary's public record from her days as first lady of Arkansas through her service as Secretary of State, calling her a “brilliant negotiator.” Although she was “by no means perfect in making policy decisions,” particularly her decision to vote for the authorization of the use of force to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2002, she is committed to “progressive” policies, and “her future carefulness will keep her from making that kind of mistake again.”
“As a pro-life Democrat, I am encouraged by the possibility that Hillary could be our next president,” he concluded.
Hillary Clinton has attempted to present herself as an evangelical, saying last year that “the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking.” However, enthusiasm is notably absent from most Christian brethren, among whom Clinton polls poorly. Her record on abortion and other social issues contradicts their most deeply held views.
When Bill Clinton vetoed the partial birth ban, which passed the Republican-controlled Congress, he said that he and Hillary had prayed about it before killing the life-saving legislation. As a U.S. senator, she earned a 100 percent voting record from NARAL Pro-Choice America, including votes against the partial birth abortion ban, parental notification, and in favor of expanding embryonic stem cell research.
During her 2008 presidential campaign, the pro-life group Democrats for Life of America deemed her “pro-choice in all circumstances,” adding that Clinton was “not directly opposed to physician assisted suicide.”
In his rebuttal to Campolo, National Review writer David French also questioned her competence, dismissing her eight years in the U.S. Senate as “undistinguished at best, with no notable legislative accomplishments” and casting doubt on her tenure as the Obama administration's top diplomat.
“After the United States launched an undeclared air war to drive Muammar Gaddafi from power” in Libya, Obama and Clinton “so mismanaged the transition of power that the American ambassador and three other brave Americans were not only killed, but jihadists drove Americans from our embassy and later filmed themselves swimming in the ambassador’s pool,” he wrote.
“In Egypt, the United States actually backed the Muslim Brotherhood – the same organization that helped launch al-Qaeda and Hamas,” he added.
Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State was so light that she once boasted the U.S. Embassy “played an instrumental role in bringing Lady Gaga to Italy” for a gay pride concert in Rome.
Although she seems unlikely to have the same appeal among evangelicals that her husband did, Hillary is considered the likely 2016 Democratic nominee. Potential challengers including Martin O'Malley and Elizabeth Warren likewise favor abortion-on-demand, often at taxpayers' expense.
None of the declared or likely Republican presidential candidates support abortion.
Where do they come from?......
Completely false headline:
1. There is nothing Evangelical about a Pastor who is asking his congregants to sin.
2. There is nothing Christian about this man. As a Christian, you personally don’t support someone who is knowingly sinning, and you don’t try to convince others to support someone you know is sinning.
Some people just don’t understand. And some want less family life and or more communistic controls over more and more people.
save us from the faux Christians.....
Evangelical leader? Nope! Just a Marxist mole who has infiltrated the Christian Church. Just a part of the strategy.
He should lay off the sauce.
Campolo forgot where he left his Bible about 25 years ago. He’s now practicing religious secularism.
Insane, who would think up crap like that?
Used to respect him till i saw both he and clinton yucking it up at the ron brown funerals, then when they saw the cameras it was all boo hoo...
He’s a fake.
So socialism will eliminate the need for abortion? FU Campolo, no. Religious left POS.
I remember first hearing Tony Campolo back in the 1970’s. He made no bones about his hatred for capitalism - in his view it is anti-christian. He made outrageous statements about our history and the Founding Fathers, demonstrating that either he was completely ignorant of our history or he was just a bald faced liar.
In the context of preaching Jesus and the cross, he could sound very evangelical, but beyond that narrow topic, he was, and apparently still is, totally left wing. I lost respect for him a long time ago.
Never heard of him.
Neither have I. From the outside looking in, he looks like a charlatan, and a wolf in sheep's clothing. There is NO WAY the Hilde-kracken is a committed Christian. She is an evil wench, who will bust Hell wide open.
Hang a picture of Hillary in the bedroom....
That sounds like the most sure fire method of birth control I can think of.
Well, abortions will do that and more to babies.
Lesbians might also have a much lower birth rate.
“Never heard of him.”
In the nineties he hung out with Bill during Lewinsky and became the media’s favorite Christian.
Isn’t Tony the guy who was laughing it up at a funeral with Bill Clinton? Then they saw the cameras were rolling on them and suddenly got teary-eyed?
He seems to be a faux evangelical. A worshipper of government.
Maybe he means that H*****y will cut babies in half.
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