Democratic Faithful Fear Obama May Be Losing Major Support Among Religious Americans — Here’s Why
- Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:11am by
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WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — Is Barack Obama losing support among America’s faithful? In 2008, the historic candidate took aim at the “pew gap,” the overwhelming Republican edge among voters who regularly attend church.
The Democratic presidential nominee came nowhere near closing it, but he didn’t have to. He just needed an extra percentage point or two among traditional GOP constituents, and he got it.
The Democratic National Committee is promising a repeat performance in 2012. But some religious leaders and scholars who backed Obama in 2008 are skeptical. They say the Democrats have, through neglect and lack of focus, squandered the substantial gains they made with religious moderates and worry it will hurt Obama in a tight race against Republican Mitt Romney.
(Related: Obama Does Damage Control Among Christian Pastors Following Gay Marriage Endorsement)
The DNC’s faith outreach director, the Rev. Derrick Harkins, said the party has strong relationships with religious groups. But as evidence of their concerns, critics point to the public debate that followed Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage, a decision the president said was based in part on his Christian faith.
No prominent clergyperson was sent out as a surrogate by the administration to explain the religious argument in favor of same-sex relationships. Instead, the main religious voices connected to Obama in the public sphere were the ministers who serve as his personal spiritual advisers and generally oppose gay marriage. Those ministers who were willing to comment — many weren’t — said they were struggling with Obama’s decision.
“I think there is a viable religious left who can be persuaded by a carefully articulated religious argument, but no one is making it,” said Valerie Cooper, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia and Obama supporter. “I’m concerned that the administration has not followed through on the promise of 2008.”
Cooper recently attended a White House briefing for academics on the work of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She and other religious scholars say they understand that pressing issues such as the economy had to be the priority. Still, they argued more could have been done to broaden the party’s tent.
“I get frustrated when I talk to evangelical friends or students and they ask, `How can you be a Christian and a Democrat?’” Cooper said.
David Kim, a Connecticut College religious studies professor, helped advise the 2008 campaign when videos of incendiary sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former Chicago pastor, threatened to derail the nominee. Kim, who attended the briefing with Cooper, described the administration’s faith-based work as “ad hoc” and “with no long-term strategy.”
“I didn’t really get a clear sense of what the mission is,” Kim said.
In 2008, the Obama campaign sought ways to cooperate with religious moderates and conservatives and make them feel more welcome among Democrats. Many political veterans dismissed the idea as quixotic. For the past decade or so, exit polls have found that the more often a voter attends church, the more likely he was to back a conservative candidate, earning the GOP the nickname “God’s Own Party.”
The Obama campaign built grassroots support among religious voters by organizing “faith house parties,” sending Roman Catholic and evangelical surrogates on the campaign trail, and holding faith caucus meetings at the party’s national convention. Cooper remembers a conference call the campaign organized with Democrats who opposed abortion rights and a position paper the campaign circulated from a Catholic theologian about reducing the need for abortion.
According to exit polls, the effort paid off. Obama made gains over the 2004 nominee, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, with voters who attend religious services more than once a week, 43 percent to 35 percent. Obama also won 26 percent of the evangelical vote, compared with 21 percent for Kerry.
“It wasn’t huge, but it was statistically significant,” said John Green, director of the University of Akron’s Bliss Institute for Applied Politics. Religious Democrats began to talk of a new era for the party.
But from 2008 to 2010, when control of Congress was at stake, the DNC cut its faith outreach staffing from more than six people to one part-timer, according to The Washington Post.
Harkins, appointed last October, is the senior pastor at the historic Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington and has held many leadership positions, including as a past board member of the National Association of Evangelicals. He has little political or campaign experience.
Until last month, the Obama re-election campaign hadn’t named a national director for religious outreach. Until he joined the campaign, 24-year-old Michael Wear was an executive assistant in the Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships office.
Harkins said in a telephone interview that he brings to the job relationships built over years with clergy nationwide and noted that he works as part of a DNC team conducting voter outreach. The Obama campaign would not discuss specifics of its outreach, citing a policy of not disclosing staff numbers or strategy, but said efforts to reach religious voters have been part of the Operation Vote initiative targeting different constituencies.
“I don‘t think there’s been any evidence of a deficit,” Harkins said. “If there‘s a change we’re seeking, it’s to be broader, more robust, reaching a broader section of the faith community.”
(Related: Meet the 23-Year-Old Obama Hired to Head His Religious Campaign Outreach)
The issue is arising at a particularly sensitive time when Obama’s critics are accusing him of enacting policies that are “choking” religious groups.
Catholic bishops have filed a dozen lawsuits nationwide challenging a Department of Health and Human Services mandate that most employers, including religious groups, provide insurance that covers birth control. The president has offered to shift the cost to insurance companies. But Catholic prelates said the accommodation still links the church to a practice that violates their beliefs.
Recently, evangelical, Orthodox Jewish, Catholic and Mormon leaders helped form in every state a new network of caucuses dedicated to religious liberty, with the birth control mandate as their initial focus.
The advocacy group Conscience Cause formed in February to rescind or revise the birth control mandate. The organization’s board includes Jim Nicholson, the former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican under President George W. Bush, and Republican strategists Mary Matalin and Ed Gillespie. Gillespie is an adviser to the Romney campaign.
But some of the president’s traditional allies are among the critics.
The Tablet, the British Catholic newsweekly read widely by American Catholic liberals, said in a recent editorial that Obama “has perhaps been misled into thinking that the widespread dissent to these teachings among Catholics means he can disregard the views of the bishops without having to pay an electoral penalty.”
Four years ago, Douglas Kmiec, an anti-abortion former official in the Reagan administration, backed Obama, drawing widespread condemnation from fellow conservative Catholics. In a column last month in the liberal U.S. newspaper the National Catholic Reporter, Kmiec praised the University of Notre Dame for suing the administration over the narrow religious exemption in the birth control rule. In 2009, Notre Dame withstood intense criticism from American bishops and honored Obama, despite the president’s support for abortion rights.
“Unwittingly, perhaps, the president has allowed his appointees to drift into the secular lane and stay there,” Kmiec wrote.
Catholics, who comprised about one-quarter of the electorate in 2008, haven’t voted in a bloc for decades, but the candidate who wins the most Catholic votes usually wins the election.
Some Democrats see no problem with consigning faith outreach to the sidelines. They argue that attempts to please moderate and conservative religious groups have kept Obama from fully enacting some policies important to party members. Among these critics are Democrats who consider church leaders’ complaints about the scope of the birth control mandate an attempt to extend legal privileges to religious groups at the expense of women.
Advocates for faith outreach say that view is short-sighted, endangering the party and the president’s re-election chances.
Keri B. Thompson, who specializes in political communication and teaches at Boston’s Emerson College, had started volunteering for Obama when he ran for U.S. Senate from Illinois. In an interview after the White House briefing, Thompson said she was “thrilled” by the president’s endorsement of gay marriage. But the day of Obama’s statement, watching her Facebook page explode with comments, she said she saw some reservations amid the celebrating.
“There are some people in the religious community who are unsure,” Thompson said. “I think they need to be brought to the table.”
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BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:35am“How can you be a Christian and a Democrat?’” Cooper said.
This is like saying you are a member of the 9/12 project and the BlackBloc anarchist party at the same time. They just don’t mix. It might be easy for some, but how can you be a part of two things that are fundamentally in direct opposition to one another.
“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” – Matthew 6:24
“These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For the mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity- for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.” – I Peter 2: 17-19
It appears that something has mastered the Democratic party, yet it is becoming more apparent to most anyone who picks up a Bible to read it……..whatever IT is……….is far from Christian in nature.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:49amwe have come to a place now in America, where you can not be a Bible believing Christian, and vote democrat with a clear concience.
Report Post »RowdieGal
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:56amAmen, BlackDiamondSkier! I could not agree with you more.
A Catholic man wrote a book awhile ago: “Can a Catholic Be a Democrat?: How the Party I Loved Became an Enemy of My Religion” The title says it all.
There are some Catholics who love Obama. But these are the same ones who are pro-choice, believe in same-sex marriage, promote New Age practices, and a whole slew of anti-Biblical beliefs. We call them CINOS (Catholic In Name Only). Pelosi thought she’d sidle up to the Pope to get on his good side. I think the Pope respectfully read her the riot act. No photo op for SanFranNan!
Some brave Catholic priests refused to give Communion to politicians who were pro-choice. I wish more would do this.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:04amIf you support demoncrats, then you support homosexuality and baby murder. There is no way that any true Believer could support either of these two positions. I think the desire for freebies has outweighed the truthes of the Bible in some communities.
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:05amblackdiamonskier
Report Post »I can see your a fellow skier. I only wish I could ski like some of you in the Bowls or the Back country. On a different note people; I’m not sure if anyone knows who the Real obama is!… I think he’s the face of many different Evils, and the Worst Part, they’re the closest to him and they have No Idea! Yes he was a community organizer, but who really knew him? No one; thats why this is so Bad. Now they‘re starting to realize that he’s not the person he claimed to be and he’s sitting in our Oval Office. Do you really think he’s just going to take it lying down? People were about to see things in the US that we never would have ever believed! I look at it like a Hostile takeover, except it wasn’t hostile. People voted with their hearts and not their minds! They didn’t look/vet his past at all. Now we come to a fork in the road. The dems have to Play the Cards they’ve been dealt and I think some dems have realized their playing with a stacked deck against them. If any person truely believes this Evil that sits in the Oval office is Christian; your Crazy just like the dems were. This being, is pure Evil and he’s bringing down the US. He hates white people, and wants us to feel the hate. He thinks were the cause of all the Worlds problems! He’s now cornered, and a cornered beast is the most dangerous! Before he goes; Destruction precedes him. Destruction of the US and the World!…
JRook
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:32amYou gotta love the coordinated effort among Fox McNews, Rush, GB, etc. to portray progressive groups being unhappy with Obama for not executing on a more liberal agenda. As though their response will be to vote for Romney. It is nothing more than an attempt to move the percentage of Independents who seek to vote for the eventual winner. The problem with such transparent strategies in today’s world is that the technology is available to disseminate the truth and expose the weak strategy.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:39amThe memories of things O’bama has done keep replaying. The blatant lie to Rick Warren in that interview, refusing to place his hand over his heart during pledge, remarks about why he didn’t wear the Flag lapel pin are just a few things from the very beginning. There have been dozens of infractions against American values since that come to mind.
Report Post »lawrench
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:44amIt is interesting to see Democrats tell people that religion should not be part of politics until they want to get elected. Then after they are elected it goes back to keep religion out of politics. When will people learn?
Report Post »sonnetswan
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:47amWe’ve also come to a place in America where you cannot be a freedom loving American and vote republican:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ronpaul/comments/uian8/the_story_of_the_louisiana_convention_from_a_ron/
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:27pm@BDS: I think you mean 2 Peter 2: 17-19. These are very appropriate verses because it’s basically talking about living godly lives in a pagan nation. Very appropriate indeed.
@JROOK: Straw man argument. You’ve stated a motivation here that is completely false. Reporting on how the “right” feels about Romney (which Fox has definitely done) was no more of an attempt to get them to vote for Obama than reporting on how the “left” feels about Obama is an attempt to get them to vote for Romney.
Report Post »db321
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:33pmWhat was your first clue – Abortion, Non Support of Israel or Gay Marriage.
Don’t worry Christian – God was only kidding when he said, Love the World and Hate God, Hate the World Love God.
Your vote is your deed and your support is your word and everyone will be judge by God for every word and deed we have done in our life.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:38amI have asked my friends this very question. You simply cannot promote the Secular Talking Points and call yourself a Christian. You can’t espouse tp having people become sloughs while allowing others to enslave the majority with planned debt like College Loans; Homes they can’t afford; health costs so top heavy in “administration” fees that the system has collapsed.
Report Post »There is NO SUCH THING as COLLECTIVE SALVATION. Being a Christian is a lot more than just saying “I believe in Christ” It’s a whole way of being in communication with God, our Father – Abba God. It (forgiveness from God) comes in an instant but takes a life-time of refining. WE are silly little people wasting time, resources, thumbing our noses at our Creator yet expecting miracles. This period of time will be known as the GROW UP time.
There is simply NOTHING that Obama has or is saying that has anything to do with real Faith. Of course people of real faith recognize this. This misguided/brainwashed Muslim may think he can pull the wool over our eyes, he is the one covered in wool. The CRIME is what he has done to the USA and therefore the world. Recently I heard someone say: There is nothing so dangerous as a man who DOESN‘T know what he DOESN’T know. Obama is the BULL in the China shop.
The Third Archon
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:12amIf a party as moderate as the Democratic Party of the United States of America is incompatible with modern Christianity, it only proves how utterly anachronistic and extreme modern Christianity has become.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:34amIf we are to survive as a nation, obama must be removed from power – his war on Christianity, and everything good that America stands for, must end – obama must go – America has no other choice. It is our duty as Americans to save our great nation.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:47amObama is one of the most religious presidents we have had to date, and his followers are a very religious bunch. They are of the religion of Humanism. They worship their own minds. They are guided by situational ethics. They have saints, just as other religions. Their saints are none other than Darwin, MLK, LBJ, FDR, Margret Sanger, Sen Kennedy, the ilk from Hollywood….
There have been no shortage of these types of leaders throughout history. They bamboozle the people with what the government will do for you, and not with freedom, so you can do for yourself. No different than Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro….
What many do not realize, is that even if voted out in Nov, Obama has left behind him a swath of stolen freedom and destruction to our nations. No one republican elected can go behind, and fix all that he broke. I doubt none has the spine, to go back, and reestablish DADT, wipe out the gov mandated healthcare, take millions off healthcare, fix the border, and countless other problems Obama and his kind have caused.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:04am@ Ranger…and let’s not forget the human sacrifices on the altar of Planned Parenthood
Report Post »DissenterKnight
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 12:08pm@ kaydeebeau and rangerp
Amen!
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:34pmIn his inaugural address George Washington dedicated this country to God and to following his laws. In the same address he also predicted calamities befalling us if we drift away. The WTC attack and the following economic crisis were a warning to us to heed Washington’s words. Bomama and his evil congressional henchmen want to take us as far away from God as they can. Bomama has shaken his fist in God’s face, and I dread the result.
Report Post »RowdieGal
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:32amYesterday, all Catholics received an insert in their church bulletin. The title: “Why Conscience Is Important.”
It’s shameful that a sitting President would trample upon one of the most basic rights of our Constitution and overall, attempt to crush freedom. In the insert, it says this in bold (all caps mine):
“This is a matter of whether religious people and institutions may be FORCED by the government to provide such coverage even when it violates our consciences.”
Everyone knows by now that the issue of forcing religious institutions to provide contraception in their healthcare packages to employees IS NOT primarily about contraception. It’s about FORCING religion to do the bidding of the government. Contraception was the fuse but the true “dynamite” is government control.
For those who would like to read the insert in its entirety, go here:
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/upload/BW-USCCB-Conscience-Bulletin-Insert_ENG.pdf
The Catholic Church is calling for a “Fortnight for Freedom” (June 21 – July 4) You can check it out at :
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/fortnight-for-freedom/index.cfm
Join us!
Report Post »quovadis
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:20amAs usual, the bishops missed an importanat point. When they talk about conscience, they need to stress a ‘well-formed’ conscience, formed from the teachings of catechism of the Church, esp. in regards to virtue, morals, saving one’s soul, confession, etc. Presenting it with quotes from MLK didn’t do it for me. Sorry. He isn’t even Catholic. A slight nod towards St. Augustine was a sad attempt to bring a great saint into the dialogue. The Church has untold numbers of saints and martyrs to call on with regards to standing up to evil. We are all called to be saints, but I dare say most Catholics are afraid to train for sainthood, much less do their duty in this regard.
Most Catholics don‘t even know what ’forming one‘s conscience’ is about or what it entails. Yep, CINO is an accurate discription.
It is just not religous liberty at stake here, (remembering that governments, nations, etc. are only passing temporal things), but the salvation of one’s soul. This lasts forever. What we do or not do now, affects our eternity. Just raising one’s hand and saying “I believe in Jesus” doesn’t get one into Heaven. Faith without works is nothing. And before all the Catholic haters out there start their daily acts of hatred under the guise of “Christian love”, why don’t you pray to the HOLY SPIRIT for guidance and ask if what you are doing is really “love” or outright hate. The Holy Spirit is most neglected of the Trinity. Humility can go
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:18amWow, how amazing to be able to speak for “Most Catholics”. Most Catholics I know are solid in their faith, constantly learning (Great Adventure Bible Study for example) and put GOD first…knowing we are all a ‘work in progress’…I came home to the Catholic Church and it’s the best decision of my life!
Report Post »bikerdogred1
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:26amThe worlds biggest liar,voted in by the worlds dumbest people.
Report Post »RowdieGal
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:41amBikerDogRed1, ain’t it the truth. I was confronting a high school alumni on my Facebook page, asking her to tell me why she’d vote for Obama again. She tried her best to distract, but never answered the question. I kept asking.
Finally, she replied, “It’s a secret!” What a moron. Seriously. I respect a person more if they own up to their convictions, even if I don’t agree with them. All it told me was that her vote for Obama was primarily an emotional one. There IS no reason to give this man another four years!! NONE!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:26amIf any of the ‘faithful’ ever supported the man, they need to do some real soul searching.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:28amGonzo….Amen to that!
Report Post »lainer51
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:17amya think?
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:13amI, quite frankly, do not understand how one that is this derisive, divisive, deceiving, destructive, demonic, demeaning, demanding, disruptive, devious, devilish and dividing can think that \they are fooling the world!
Report Post »GrandmaNRichmondTX
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:30amYou have just about covered all of obama good traits!! I might also all disingenuous.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:10amHistoryGuy48;
“Get ready for a bad ride it will be here shortly, directly after he is re-elected.” I think you should stick to history, not prognostication.
Report Post »THE MAD TACO
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 4:15pmWhat? Re-elected? Really? Do you have a crystal ball or are you just another Obozo servant that is blind,deaf and dumb?
Report Post »AnAmerican111
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:09amDid you notice the similarities on the main page of OBUMA and Janet Neonazi…………………..
Report Post »Strikingly psychotic type poses while spewing their lies……….
Seems to be the Liberal way these days…..Can‘t get their way so jump up and down and flail their hands like a bunch of monkey’s
jonjon
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:50amthat is what I noticed prior to reading the artical , kind of creepy huh ?
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:03amContinuing and expanding our wars in the Middle East? That’s okay…
Drone strikes to kill American citizens without due process? That’s okay…
Spending us into oblivion? That’s okay.
Eroding our civil liberties? That’s okay.
Overseeing and exacerbating the decline of our economy? That’s okay.
Saying gay marriage should be legal? That’s too far!!!
Report Post »ONLY4UANDME
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:15amGendercide, that ok?
Report Post »and the list goes on.
lainer51
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:19amgood point!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:08amBruce P.
Continuing and expanding our wars in the Middle East?
Al Qaeda provided his Arab 555 brigade to aid the Taliban. After 911 the Taliban would not extradite Usama to the U.S. instead the proposed that he be tried under Islamic law in Pakistan or a central Asian republic. I assume that you thought the Taliban proposal was reasonable.
Saddam attempted to assassinate George H.W. Bush in 1993. Is that a casus belli? If not why not?
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:50pmWALKABOUT — I‘m speaking in terms of how Obama’s supporters look at things.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:56amI don’t recall the Bush administration well. That is in regards to his faith. I know him as a deeply religious Christian. However, I don’t recall any pictures of the former President praying, or in any religious setting aside from prayer breakfasts or similar occasions. There are more ‘praying’ pictures in this article showing the current Oval Office occupant than I recall in the eight Bush years. It is an interesting contrast. Recalling Barack in the Rev Wright’s church, attending faithfully, but not hearing Wright’s message. Given Barack’s mendacious proclivity, it is easy to view these photos as what I am sure they are, political opportunities. His faith outreach operation is not working as it did in 2008. It is not surprising given his assault on nearly every religious norm. So, following this November’s election, he can ask President Bush’s portrait what would George have done. Or he could remember Lincoln’s quote, “You can fool all of the people, all of the time….”
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:55amIt’s simply not historically true that religious people are predominately Republican.
The opposite is true. Most churchgoers are, and have always been, Democrats.
Evangelicals are a small percentage of the total population, and even their ranks are split.
This is one of those stories that is telling theblaze readers that they are representative, typical Americans.
Another story will be posted soon telling theblaze readers how they are a remnant of all that is good in an America that is against their views.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:02amMBE;
Interesting perspective. Do you have facts to support your assertions?
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:14amOf course she doesn’t.
Report Post »Liberals and facts? You must be joking!
wboehmer
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:39amSeriously, MARYBETH, that you liberals don‘t know what you’re talking about is a given . . . but isn’t making up your nonsense out of thin air really just plain embarrassing?
U.S.News & World Report – April 2011
“. . . Christians decidedly tend to vote Republican. Fifty-nine percent of Protestants and 54 percent of Catholics chose the Republican House candidates in their districts, while 74 percent of people claiming an “other” religion and 68 percent claiming no religion chose Democrats.”
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/04/20/religion-and-party-affiliation-go-hand-in-hand
Report Post »RowdieGal
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:16amYour flaw in the assertion: “Most churchgoers are, and have always been, Democrats.”
Perhaps in the past, many churchgoers were Democrats, but that simply is not the case today. Your premise is flawed and as a result, the rest of your argument sank like a rock.
Today, more Americans lean toward conservatism and those same people are for the most part, more religious than the Democrats.
In a poll taken last year, the “very religious” were 19 POINTS more likely to identify themselves as Republicans!
http://www.gallup.com/poll/148274/religious-americans-align-gop.aspx
Prefer HuffPo to The Blaze? Here ya go:
Party Affiliation Still Closely Tied To Religion:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/27/religious-americans-party-affiliation_n_885525.html
President Obama just managed to tick off a significant voter bloc, namely, the Catholics. Even many Catholics who voted for him in ‘08 aren’t sure they’re going to do the same again. His administration’s blunder is going to cost him, big time. We now have other religions joining us in the fight and receiving their support for civil disobedience.
The more liberalism/progressivism/socialism/marxism tramples on U.S. freedom, the more religious people will respond by voting Republican. The difference between Dark and Light are becoming more and more obvious. You need to choose a side. You need to think it through very carefully. Because once government destroys the freedom of religion, what’s next?
Mo
Report Post »rockyvine
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:08amHey MARYBETHELIZABETH:
Report Post »Your “facts” aren’t facts at all. You’re such a good little Democrat, regurgitating the same old lie, hoping to catch lazy, stupid people who won’t take the time to do their own research. Democrats since the 1960′s have used uninformed Christians to further their leftist agenda, and to their credit, their plan has worked. “Stupid” comes in all sorts of packages, even “Christian.” Unlike Democrats, true Christians who have a Biblical world view don’t support abortion, radical feminism, radical environmentalism, gay marriage, moral relativism, etc. Mr. Obama and the Democrats continue to successfully bait Christian “dumbbells” into their army, even though they are openly hostile towards Christianity. Please consider the following article from David Barton and WALLBUILDERS. Pay attention to the footnotes at the end of the article. These are called FACTS. http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=106938
Gr8ful1jim
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:12amThe Democrat party of 40-60 years ago is not the same party that holds the name today. A lot of younger people associate themselves with the party of their parents and grandparents and the only correlation is in the name. The secularists and progressives hijacked the democrat party. There is no room for religious groups anymore.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:13am@Rockyvine, You posted a link to Wallbuilders. Sorry, but Wallbuilders is a biased, Fundamentalist Protestant website. David Barton is a religious educator who dabbles in pseudohistory and Christian Revisionism. He is not accepted by academia. He has been caught LYING about quotes and sources over and over again. You can believe everything he says is true and “Godly” but, in fact, you are following a liar. You folks love to say that Liberals can’t handle facts or logic, but you use blogs and fringe websites as your sources. I rarely post from anything other than a mainstream, non-partisan source. Oh, I forgot, the mainstream media is biased and only Fox and Conservative blogs are the only ones telling “THE TRUTH”. Just don’t confuse you with real facts.
@Rowdiegal, You’re misreading both MBE and the survey. Here is a survey that shows the number of Republicans versus Democrats from earlier this year. Democrates have a slight advantage over Republicans. And your stance on Catholics being ticked at Obama shows that you are White. This is a Gallup survey of Catholic voters. Whether they will vote for Obama or Romney depends on religiousity and ethnicity. Most White Catholics are currently looking at Romney, but Catholics as a whole group are equally split.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/152438/States-Move-GOP-2011.aspx
Report Post »DissenterKnight
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 12:12pm@ randy
Report Post »She doesn’t need facts, she has a keyboard and an ISP.
georgepatton
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:49pmReply to: Marybethelizabeth, Did your parents have any children that survived??????????????
Report Post »In That Day
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:51amA plank of the Presidential Platform against the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, of course, the Democrat Platform, was to concede the Civil War to the South and allow slavery. To give up and allow slavery.
Back then, Aristocrats in the South wanted to rule whom they could, that they distribute income according to dictates of Aristocrats.
Any different now with Aristocrat Democrats who want to rule over other’s income, that funds be distributed through the hands of Aristocrats?
Back then, Democrat Aristocrats had no problem enslaving people of the South who were black.
Right now, Democrat Aristocrats have no problem enslaving other people (any color) by dictating where their property, er money, goes. Of course, the money must channel thru Aristocrat hands and Aristocrat heads and Aristocrat laws and Aristocrat Bureaus.
Oh, and isn’t it interesting, Aristocrats also control how all young people (any color) are taught.
And how are young people taught? That mice must enjoy their Aristocrat cats who eat out their substance.
The Aristocrats have achieve Slavery By Other Means.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:53amWhat comes to mind here is: “Christain good and damnation wrong”! Never knew how truly vomit enducing it was to see this “man” in pictures not as subservient to the Almighty on High, but, with the crosses placed in such a way as to resemble a “halo glow”!! Hubris is a sin and this man’s picture is next to it in the Dictionary…….Please God guide our country back to a more pious and conservative country…Amen
Report Post »drbage
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:45amAlso add all the photos and photo ops that take place in front of the gold-colored cloth that make him look like he has a halo or is floating.
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:52amBarack Obama losing support among America Period!
The only people supporting Obama now are the 20% of the hardcore left.
You know, the Murderers of babies, the haters of religion, unless it’s Islam, The haters of America (which include MSM, MSNBC, ABC,NY TIMES, etc.), The crowd that wants to marry the same sex, or soon, their Dog, Goat or Camel, The people who believe in participation trophies, People who defecate on Police cars, Throw bricks, break windows, people who want to live in homes they can’t afford, people who want to take what you have earned, People who want death panels because Granny is too old, People who believe in Government bailouts, People who wear purple shirts (SEIU),
People who believe the Government have the right to tell you what do do, what to eat, what to drink.
I could go on and on, but have to get back to work.
Bottom line, The Dregs of Humanity = Obama Supporters.
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:43amIf anybody wants to see an eyeful of information that would have any religious person running for the exists, just google the following terms: Don Young, Larry Bland, Reverend Wright, Chicago, Obama, Man’s Country, Down Low Club.
Yep, that should keep them busy for awhile. If the MSM ever did their job, Obama wouldn’t have even left the starting gate; but, that‘s the way it is and many of Obama’s secrets seem to be under lock and key.
Report Post »Noah_fing-whey
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:41am“worry it will hurt Obama in a tight race against Republican Mitt Romney.”
Close race?!? This is shaping up to be a defeat of epic proportions! In fact I am beginning to believe those who say he is not going to run at all. All the sudden negative pieces on Obama don’t pass the sniff test.
Report Post »castuslonginus
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:12amwhy did our glorius leader,when in a debate with McCain in the last election,state that he would sit down and talk with a-jad,chavez,castro et-al,because he would have to deal with them for the next 8 to 10 years. 10 years? was that showing ignorance of the constitution or is he planning to have power for that long or longer. Maybe he’s counting on his shepple to not care about the constitution.Why not ,his doj and ag are already lawless.
Report Post »Yaya2
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:40amOnly God knows what is truly in this man’s heart…is it love for his fellow man? Love of his country? Putting God before anything else? I don’t see much of anything in him that shows the traits of a Christian. I cannot judge Obama, but what I do see is a love of himself…we get what we deserve.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:59amYay;
“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” Mat 7:16
Report Post »vett
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:11amIf Barry, thinks he is a christian then he lies and the truth is not in him. By their fruits ye shall know them . His fruit is withered & dead . He is a deceiver & he will have his part in the lake of fire . Jesus the Christ died for Barry’s soul . For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul ?
Report Post »bobgott
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:35amGee. Maybe ordering the Catholic Church to commit Mortal Sin maybe major issue.
Does anyone really believe it is a ‘contraceptive issue’ like the MSM and WH propaganda spews?
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:32amI don’t know why! Well, maybe because for his support on same sex marriage and/or abortion. I still don’t know.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:32amMany Americans see him for what he is: Evil!
Report Post »He was raised a Muslim and every bit of evidence supports that his true beliefs are still in Islam!
He pretends to be a Christian, lieing to an infidel is your duty under Islam.
Homosexuality is proscribed in Islam and is punishable by death, so he has hidden his proclivities.
Despite the idiotic “Main stream media” he hates Jews, his actions speak far louder than his words that were uttered only to garner money from those he hates.
He is America’s leader and he will make sure our country dies so we will not be able to stop the coming Caliphate.
Get ready for a bad ride it will be here shortly, directly after he is re-elected.
I wonder if their plan is still for Russia to get the east coast, China the west and our home grown idiots to retain control of the middle? We’ll see, soon!
old white guy
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:36ami don’t know how any religious Christian could vote for the man. his actions are the opposite of what Christians believe.
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:38amHe is wicked!
Report Post »bobgott
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:49amYou got it and that is just some of the history. WYSIWYG but many sheeple still don’t get it. He’ll only get elected via fraud, entitlement crowd [growing daily], and repeated voting of INVADING FOREIGN NATIONALS. True fear maybe October when ‘they’ realize he will not win. Watch for his ‘army’, who are getting more treasonous. Support those who keep there Oath and take resolution to your local State Legislators [ http://www.theintolerableacts.org/ ]. For the Republic.
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:39amOWG,
Report Post »There used to be a black woman in our church who asked her family why they were voting for Obama and his views on abortion and gay marriage. Her mom’s answer was ” it just gives you more to pray about.“ There are religious people who use this excuse be cause he is ”of a certain color”.
bharris0
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:31amHe has proven himself to be “the great deceiver”. Voting for him would be like voting for the anti-Christ.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:27amThou Shalt NOT covet…………….you do not want …or take…that which belongs to someone else.
You do NOT kill………………………you do not murder unborn babies….you do not withold medical treatment for babies who survive abortions
You do NOT accept homosexual behavior as normal or as acceptable to God
You do NOT LIE.. CHEAT …STEAL …DESTROY HUMAN LIVES …..you do not have FALSE PRIDE
You do not serve Satan …….God will not be mocked.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:20amI don’t know about “religious” but among CHRISTIAN voters, he’s done! satan couldn’t even put lipstick on that pig and get a righteous vote.
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:06amYou are so right!!!
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:17ambecause he trys to divide the races, is for gay marrage and partial birth abortions this is not a democrate V Rebublican issue this RIGHT against WRONG
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:15amHere is why – his Marxist policies are not what Americans want.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:27amThis boy of a man is a known lair and a narcissist POS
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