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Obama to Daily Kos: Back off Palin

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In Monroe, Michigan today at a campaign stop Barack Obama was asked about rumors that Sarah Palin’s daughter was really the mother of four month old Trig, and also what he thought of Sarah Palin revealing that the same daughter really is five months pregnant. Bravo to Obama for his response:

I have said before and I will repeat again: People’s families are off limits. And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.

HT: Ben Smith

Zondervan lawsuit filer linked to Obama campaign

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The plot thickens related to the homosexual activist who is suing Zondervan for $60M because the word “homosexual” appears in its Bible translations.  Barack Obama’s official campaign website has posted Bradley Fowler’s explanation of why he is suing Zondervan under the heading, “Overcoming Religious Injustice Is Not As Easy As the Bible Says.”

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Is the Obama campaign behind suing a religious publisher because it’s translation of the Bible is deemed politically incorrect?

UPDATE: Fowler has filed a separate lawsuit against Thomas Nelson Publishers: http://dockets.justia.com/search?query=Bradley+LaShawn+Fowler&search=Search&stateorcourt=court-miedce&lawsuittype=&documentfilter=allcases&cases=mostrecent&min-day=1&min-month=1&min-year=2004&max-day=9&max-month=7&max-year=2008

UPDATE 2: Jordan Ballor at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids points me to this disclaimer on the Obama Campaign website: “Content on blogs in My.BarackObama represents the opinions of community members and in no way should be interpreted as endorsed or approved by the campaign.”

I have a request for comment from the Obama Campaign pending.