8 Prominent Social Conservatives Praise Obama
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
Earlier this week, I started a tally of prominent social conservatives praising socially liberal President-elect Barack Obama. The starting number was seven.
The interview I posted yesterday with Southern Baptist Convention public policy chief Richard Land included praise for Obama's selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration:
It was a sign that [Obama] is not going to let the minority marginalize the majorities. The marginal position is support for same-sex marriage. To marginalize Rick Warren's position is absurd, and the president-elect is smart enough to know that.
That makes eight prominent social conservatives complimenting Obama just in the past week or so:
1. Rick Warren (Purpose-Driven Life author and megachurch pastor)
2. Pat Robertson (Christian Broadcasting Network founder)
3. Franklin Graham (president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association)
4. Tony Perkins (Family Research Council president)
5. William Kristol (Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist)
6. Douglas Kmiec (White House counsel to President Reagan and George H. W. Bush)
7. Richard Cizik (former chief lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals)
8. Richard Land (president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission)
Let me know if I missed anyone.
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Read carefully Mark
Regardless of any court ruling, homosexuality will remain in the hearts and minds of the overwhelming majority of the world a deviant behavior and its practitioners to be pitied at best. The persons engaged in this behavior will always be thought of as abnormal because they are.You need to read your history, Mark. Regarding CA, this 'third world invasion' that has taken place has brought in a people who will not tolerate the things that us 'modern progressives' think they should. Where they come from, there is more than one way to deal with berdaches. Think about it, you'll see.
Read the CA Supreme Court ruling......cupcake
Page 6
The court said the right to marry is so INEGRAL tp a person's human rights, it CAN NOT be reduced or removed by either the Legislature or by INITIATIVE.
America isn't run by the tyranny of the Majority, the courts make the playing field EQUAL for any individual to be on even footing with their government, and the courts DECIDE what is constitutional or NOT.
Markie, Markie
Markie! Pay attention fella! While same sex marriage is legal, it is far from perfect and will never legitimize the aberrant behavior, never gain acceptance for its practitioners! Thats history,Markie,not a prediction.You and I agree, Obama is peripheral in this battle (?) and if I were you, I wouldn't get my hopes up about who he may or may not appoint to the courts. You should check out whats' happening in Europe regarding the subject of homosexuality in general.As for CA, You really need to get in touch with who the majority is here, pal. Hispanics do not put up with that kind of hanky-panky, Markie, and they do not have a high regard for American law either.Oh, and by the way, there are more moral people than there are homosexuals, so you might want to reconsider that wedding day schedule!
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