{"id":467,"date":"2008-07-02T09:13:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2008-07-02T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:13:49","slug":"obamas-same-sex-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/obamas-same-sex-problem","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Same-Sex Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

A majority of evangelical Christians across the broad spectrum of evangelicalism (liberal to moderate to conservative) OPPOSE same-sex marriage if the results of a new Calvin College poll on religion and public life<\/a> are to be believed. Forty-eight percent of liberal to moderate evangelicals oppose same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

This poses a significant problem for Barack Obama’s outreach efforts to evangelicals. On the same day he announces that he would expand President Bush’s faith-based initiatives, there surfaces a letter the senator from Illinois wrote to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club in California<\/a> in which Obama says he supports…<\/p>\n

“…extending fully equal rights and benefits to same-sex couples under both state and federal law. That is why I support repealing the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] and the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy, and the passage of fully inclusive laws to protect LGBT Americans from hate crimes and employment discrimination. And that is why I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution, and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Colin Hansen, writing for Justin Taylor’s Between Two Worlds<\/a> blog:<\/p>\n

The New Republic reports<\/strong><\/a> that these stands make Obama far more favorable to gay rights than were the Democratic running mates in 2004, Sen. John Kerry and Sen. John Edwards. Hugh Hewitt weights in with the doomsday scenario<\/strong><\/a>: “If Obama is elected and he leads majorities in the House and Senate to repeal DOMA, eight judges in two states–California and Massachusetts–will have reversed 3,000 years of law and culture in the West.” Peter Wehner criticizes Obama for equating support for traditional marriage with bigotry<\/strong><\/a>. “He has now taken a position that strikes me as fairly extreme: same-sex marriages ought to be imposed by the courts, even if the citizens of that state object\u2013thereby making an already-contentious social issue even more contentious.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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