Obama and the Christian Right
From a report of this speech:
Obama attacked leaders of the "Christian Right" who he accused of exploiting issues like abortion and gay marriage to divide Evangelical Christians from those who attend so-called "mainline" churches. "Of course, it goes a little further than that. There was a period of time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich...I don't know what Bible they are reading," Obama said, as the crowd applauded. "Didn't jive with my version." From another report:
"Doing the Lord's work is a thread that runs through our politics since the very beginning," Barack Obama told an Iowa crowd on Saturday -- but added the important distinction that religion should be used to bring people together for good causes, not to divide. "It got hijacked," Obama said. "Part of it is because the so-called leaders of the Christian right are all too eager to exploit what divides us."
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