This is amazing - Obama is reaching out to Catholics and Christians by reminding us that it is more than being pro-life; rather it is poverty, war, human rights violations, enviornmental concerns, prejudice, immigration...these are the issues that should bring us together in common passion.  Not choosing one personal, polarizing flashpoint - ABORTION - and using that to divide us!

If Sen Obama can pull this off, it will be an accomplishment for the ages.

Obama must think he's really special. He's going to try convince devoted religious people that they should be for abortion? It is so absurd, it is laughable. (Hennde Lammers)
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Where in any of this does it say he is trying to convince people they should be for abortion?  It doesn't.  In fact, he says he understands if you are not and that keeps you from getting involved with his campaign.  I don't care what side you are for...could we all just quit twisting everything!

Young evangelicals are flocking to Obama!
Climate change and enviornmental concerns are of huge importance to this group...
Once again, Obama is breaking down old barriers and creating a campaign that includes ALL Americans ready for change!
Go Obama!

The evangelicals are sinning against the Lord by being the ones to readily pass on the e-mails that slander Senator Obama.  It is a sin against G-D to
"sow discord among the brethern".  Senator Obama has repeatedly stated that he has made a profession of faith in Christ.  He is our brother in Christ.  The Bible also states that the Lord HATES a " lying tongue".  I have seen it on my job and in my own family.  The lies are spread by church-going people.  

Alot has been said about Senator Obama's church.  They have over 8,000 members.  Something good is going on in that church, even if it does have controversial pastors.  As a counselor, I have people relate stories to me of their deacon fathers molesting them on a regular basis, as the family played church in the communities eyes.  There are alot of white racist/immoral churches across this nation and we all know it!  Yet, we point fingers and we are as guilty of sin as they are in our personal rhetoric and deeds.

I am an Amaerican Jew that has accepted Christ.  I believe he is our Savior.  I also believe that Senator Obama is a christian man that can be used of the Lord to lead this nation in the right direction to help the poor, stop the war and bring back a balance of wealth in our nation.  

You want to talk Marxist?  The republican party is the CEO Marxist party if there ever was one.  All of our wealth is ocncentrated at the top 1% and then the republicans lie, war and cheat to keep it that way.  The evangelicals are republican pawns to keep this nation making money for the republican CEO's.

We get so preoccupied with some issues, I have not seen a "fire sale" on abortions. Women that can afford and want an abortion will continue to have them.  The freedom in America to practice our faith or not is a right supported by our constitution.

the whole picture!!!!!!!

Hennde, I am a Christian, an Elder and board member at my church, a regular attendee at services and Sunday school.  I am not "for abortion" but my religious convictions and my belief in the freedoms offered by the United States of America lead me to believe I can't deny that option to others.  That is partly based on the knowledge that the onset of life varies among religions, not everyone considers life to begin at conception.  Please don't paint all Christians with the same brush.  I would ask the same of the media, which too often uses "Christian" as shorthand for "Evangelical, Fundamentalist Christian."  Christians have a wide spectrum of beliefs in the same way that Jews range from Hasidic to Reformed while sharing the same religious heritage.

Obama is sounding more and more like George W Bush..for 20 years he and his wife and all of their young daughters lives have listened to a Preacher who was filled with ANGER and HATE and now he thinks all of us women (over 50) are going to listen to him. I am all for a African American for President just not this one. His wife Michelle should be begging for  forgiveness ,all of those horrid things she said about Hillary and white America and never being proud. She is the one that said she could never vote for Hillary Clinton..someone needs to tell her we will never vote for her husband (THE Selected nominee NOT Elected)  I am fed up with the DNC,I hate what Keith,Chris and Jack Cafferty,Roland Martin  and Donna Brazille  have done for woman's rights.......pushed it back about 50 years.......Hillary Is by far the best person to run our country...Wake up America!!!!! This election  is fixed!!!!!

Obama and anything to do with faith is a double-edged sword.  For me, anytime I think of church and him in the same thought I can only think...America's chickens have come home to roost.

Barack Obama going after religious voters is like John McCain going after black voters. Neither is going to happen.

Tim Elston, Juneau, Alaska: Please read this and then tell me if you can't still can't understand why people think late term abortions should remain legal.  

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24844532/

Obama's November 2009 game plan: MANIPULATE THE YOUTH VOTERS.

They will be counting on this for the mere fact that the youth voters are idealistic, impressionable and most of all, naive about political deception.  They are aware that they cannot get the majority of the HRC voters to go in their fold so at least this one is a fallback plan to fill-in the void... Still sounds to me like old politics delivered ala mode and smells like rotten fish.

I am a Christian not a Catholic. I believe in Pro-Choice, because ultimately a woman has to live with her choice. I also believe that I am not the one that went to medical school. Apparently there are now pills that can be taken the morning after in other countries. ( Idon't know if a doctor can prescribe them in the USA). If this is true some of these arguements are going to be mute in another 10 years, laws or courts aren't going to have any control over the issue. Educations and a society that will not spend money on excessive Adult cable TV and media and that show a much needed increase of respect for women would go a long way to resolving abortion.
We as a society and within our family structure need to accept a large portion of the blame for the need for abortion. This is not a politican's domain, unless we make it a hugh expense that the government needs to involve itself in. We need to continue to discuss and be proactive about this issue. Just like racial discrimination it is not something that can be solve in 4 YEARS.

Don't confuse 'late term abortion' for anything more than what it is.  It is 'partial birth abortion'-which means, essentially, aborting a baby after it has been born.  Do some research on this, because it is really, really disturbing.

Norton Stiles - your arguments are as predictable as they are defeatable.

First, Sen. Obama doesn't have a 100% liberal voting record by any credible source monitoring voting records.

Second, he has never said that the military should have "no role" or, to borrow your curious English, be" of no resort."  But, after 7 years of a President using our military as the arm of the Lord (when he wasn't using them as the backdrop for a photo-op) and taking a "hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn" approch to foreign policy, a little restraint and re-engagement with our friends (and yes, our enemies) on the world stage is not being a pacificst, unless you would also use that label on Eisenhower, Regan and even the current President as well.

Finally, as to where he feels government should play a smaller role in people's lives, anyone remotely familiary with the man's policies before spouting off a post wouldn't even ask that question.  Sen. Obama has very publicly stood up in front of audiences and said while the government can be there to give people a nudge when they need some help, it cannot and should not be there to do everything.  Specifically, he speaks out to parents, telling them that we can make great advancements in the quality of education we give our children in the schoolhouse, such gains will be of no consequence unless parents do their job at home - turn off the TV, turn off the videogame, be engaged in their children's lives, read to them, have them ready to you.  He has made great pains to extoll the virtues of personal responsibility and the note that, while government can HELP, it cannot and should not DO in most circumstances (the obvious exception being national defense).

So, there you go.  You can label him all that you want, as a socialist or whatever you conjur up.  The problem is, that to listen to him, whic most Americans will have the chance to do in the coming months, is to see that he defies the conventional political labels.  He is bent to the left to be sure, no argument there, but he has also shown himself to be pragmatic (i.e. reforning versus mandating for health care) and principled (i.e. the gas tax holiday debate), to say nothing of receptive of good ideas no matter the source (i.e. working with Sen. Lugar to corral loose nukes, something about which our Congress has been criminally negligent in doing the last 15 years).  As we saw in the primary, labels and names are easy for him to combat - at once ill-equipped to define him and symptomatic of a politics from which a majority of this country appears ready to turn.

Since Obama had gay-hater born again activist Donnie McClurkin campaigning for him in SC, it's no wonder now that he should go after the evangelical vote.
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Dean in Waterbury:  he also has a "mentor" the Rev. Meeks from Chicago who is one of the biggest homophobes in the world.

one of the things Obama says is that you have to talk to people who don't always agree with you. This is part of his unity message in that we may have different beliefs about on some of the issues, but we have to come together to solve the problems of poverty, for example. Obama is not going to change the minds of some of the priest and pastors who believe homosexuality is a sin. However, many of the church programs focus on issues of education, poverty, genocide etc. I don't agree with the chrisitan view on homosexuality, but I give credit for the church in trying to address poverty issues which our current administration is ignoring. It is  nonsensical to only work with people who agree with you. look at the whole picture instead of one issue. It is irionic that the same bloggers who are aganist obama talking to priest or pastors who are homophobic have no probelm voting for McCain who also have pastors who are homophobic. double standard.

A note to The Evangelical Right.  The republicans have courted you with family values blather, got your vote, and then conveniently forgotten you.  Rove did it to you -- twice -- and McCain appears to be cribbing from the same playbook.

Obama's initiative, as many have rightly pointed out, is that religiosity or spirituality is more than where we stand on a single issue.  As more and more American kids go to bed hungry every night, we have to visit the question: what's more Christian, more biblical, more spiritual, than feeding the hungry, tending to the sick, or sheltering the homeless?

Dear Fellow Christians,

Did you know that the abortion rate has significantly RISEN during the Bush administration and that it was LOWER during Clinton?  Why?  Because abortion is tied to whether women can AFFORD to keep their children.  Outlawing abortion misses the point.  Our country needs to make abortions UNNECESSARY.  That is the true Christian way.  Obama walks the Christian walk in his concern for poverty, peace, the environment and human rights and equality.  Let's all pull our heads out of our pious tushies and look at the BIG PICTURE.  This Bible-thumping Evangelical is proudly and eagerly voting her faith in November:  OBAMA!!!

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