Obama and Faith Based Groups

Published: July 1, 2008, 5:59 pm

In some ways I don’t have a problem with faith based intiatives, but Senator Obama’s courting of envengelicals still bothers me and little bits like this tell me why: Mr. McCain, who was raised an Episcopalian but switched to the Baptist church of his wife, Cindy, has never had the same levels of support among this group as Mr. Bush enjoyed, not least because he once labeled the evangelical leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson agents of intolerance, a characterization he has since backed away from. Mr. McCain does not talk much in public about religion, and Christian conservatives have been slow to embrace him. He turned some off by quickly denouncing two supporters, the Rev. John Hagee and the Rev. Rod Parsley, after controversial statements they made came to light. Falwell and Robertson are intolerant, as are Parsley and Hagee. If Obama has to stop saying that to get support, then I have a big problem with it. And this: In a brief video shown at the beginning of

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