Should Christians Support Obama?
We’ve argued long and hard over this, here at the Paliban Daily. Should Christians support Obama, or not? The answer may surprise you.
Considerations we weighed ran from his unquestioning support of infanticide to his role in the passage of Proposition 8, and from his support of Big Business to his drive toward an economic fascism not seen since Mussolini. We also reviewed each others’ opinions; for example, Pat Robertson supports him, some folks think he’s the antichrist, and others suggest we shouldn’t even speak his name.
In the end, Obama came out a winner! Here’s why:
Obama is against gay marriage. He spoke about this on the campaign trail. As an added bonus, the high black and latino voter turnout in California — people who, more often than not, know that sodomites are abominations before God — pushed Proposition 8 into the black, eliminating gay “marriage” in California.
Obama supports faith-based hiring practices.
Not only is President Obama expanding the Bush Administration’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, but he supports the Bush-era regulation permitting such organizations to hire based upon their religious beliefs, while spending the tax dollars of outraged atheists.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State today expressed disappointment that President Barack Obama’s “faith-based” initiative is being rolled out without repeal of Bush-era policies that violate civil rights and civil liberties.
President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative allowed religious groups that accept tax funding to engage in discriminatory hiring and celebrated faith-based groups that proselytize. Today’s Obama action leaves the Bush executive orders in place including one that specifically authorizes religion-based employment discrimination in publicly funded programs.
Evangelical Joel Hunter, appointed by Obama to the Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, explains, “On the one hand, you don’t want to use federal funds to discriminate. But on the other hand, we can’t have religious organizations taking money on the condition that they will hire people who live a lifestyle contrary to what they teach.”
Exactly. Therefore, it is not discrimination, it is simply being discriminating. And it is supported by President Obama.
As noted in the Irregular Times, Obama’s new leader for the Council, Joshua Dubois, also “supported the exclusion of non-religious Democrats from certain parts of the Democratic National Convention in 2008, creating religion-only zones of special access to political leaders. Justifying the segregation, Dubois said that people of faith had an important place in American life.”
Seems that to DuBois, and his boss Obama, people without faith do not have an important place in American life.
Score multiple points for Obama!
Barack Obama supports covering up genital torture to preserve our national security.
Ethiopian Binyan Mohamed and four others filed a lawsuit against a subsidiary of Boeing, who flew the men to prisons outside of the United States where they were subjected to brutal treatment, including genital torture.
Said torture consisted of slicing the p***s open with a razor and pouring a “hot, stinging liquid” into the wounds.
These “suspected terrorists” were held for several years, then released without ever being charged.
President Obama’s legal team backed up the Bush Administration’s previous court argument, the case should be dismissed because “even discussing it in court could threaten national security and relations with other nations”.
That’s right. Genital mutilation is not something we’re proud of, and President Obama is right to cover it up. Even though the cat, as it were, is out of the bag.
YES, WE CAN cover up genital torture!
Obama upsets the ACLU.
In words eerily reminiscent of Michele Obama’s anti-patriotic “Today, I’m proud to be an American” comment, the ACLU’s Anthony Romero released a statement slamming Obama:
Eric Holder’s Justice Department stood up in court today and said that it would continue the Bush policy of invoking state secrets to hide the reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous human rights violations committed by the American government. This is not change. This is definitely more of the same. Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama’s Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on that important civil liberties issue. If this is a harbinger of things to come, it will be a long and arduous road to give us back an America we can be proud of again.
Barack Obama supports the Patriot Act and FISA Amendments Act.
Indeed, President Obama thinks that librarians should still be forced to turn over records of any customer, without a warrant. His Attorney General, Eric Holder, recommends continuing it:
In the morning session of hearings, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona asked Holder whether as Attorney General he would support the reauthorization of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Section 215 is the section of the Patriot Act which permits federal agents to secretly obtain information on your reading habits, web browsing history or “any tangible things” from libraries, bookstores, universities and other businesses without the warrant required by the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It expires as law in December 2009.
When Senator Kyl asked Holder whether he’d support the reauthorization of Section 215, here’s how Holder responded (my transcription from C-Span):
Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder: That’s one that has certainly generated more controversy, I believe, than the other two, and I think that the examination, the questions that I’d need to ask people in the field and who have been using that, I’d want to know as much as I possibly can. But as I said the tools that we have been given by Congress in FISA are important ones, and so I would look at all three of these and make a determination as to whether I’d be able to support them. But I expect that I would.
Meanwhile, Obama himself, as a senator, voted for the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.
Obama supports increased offshore oil drilling.
The Bush administration policy was to increase offshore oil drilling. Environmental hippies flocked to Obama, hoping he’d put a stop to it.
Obama has presented Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior. Salazar’s comments?
Salazar said he was open to compromise over a pair of domestic oil initiatives: drilling on the outer continental shelf, which he said could make sense in some areas but not others, and leasing federal land for oil shale development — a particularly hot issue in his home state, where most shale efforts are located.
Even initially skeptical Republicans declared themselves pleased.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) had said he was concerned that Salazar’s energy approach was “to cut off America’s energy supply.” But after speaking with him this week, DeMint told Salazar at the hearing, he had come to think “we’re pretty much on the same page.”
Obama. Like Bush, only spelled different.
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