Obama a Player in Left's Redefining of Christianity, Says Illinois Activist
by Jim Brown
December 12, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A pro-family leader says one of his U.S. senators -- Illinois Democrat Barack Obama -- is becoming "the poster boy for the liberal redefinition of Christianity."
Senator Obama is in the midst of a nationwide tour to generate support for a possible 2008 presidential run and to promote his book, The Audacity of Hope. In his memoir, Obama writes: "I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided."
Peter LaBarbera is president of Americans for Truth and the former head of the Illinois Family Institute. The first-term senator can say he is talking religious values to the public and continue portraying himself as a traditional-values Christian, says LaBarbera, but Obama is actually advancing policies that attack those values.
"There's no need to consider the idea that so-called 'gay marriage' is okay," says LaBarbera. "We know that marriage is between a man or a woman; that's what God made it to be. It's wonderful, it's beautiful. Homosexuality is not an option."
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And for Obama to say that, in order to be a good Christian, he has to consider "something that's anti-Christian is just wrong," says the Christian activist. He describes Obama as "as pro-abortion as they come, and very pro-homosexual." Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination and attends Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, according to UCC News.
"The United Church of Christ has now merged with the largest gay church in the world, called the Cathedral of Hope, in Texas," LaBarbera notes. "And so they're welcoming in churches that are embracing homosexuality, so they've become one of the most liberal denominations in the country."
At its General Synod last year, the UCC adopted a resolution calling for "equal marriage rights for all" -- regardless of gender. Obama has been quoted as saying that the denomination's "spirit of inclusiveness" has served as a model for him during his time in the Senate.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
