This entire election cycle thus far the Democratic Party has been courting religious voters. Throughout the Democratic primary, the candidates spoke openly about their faith, participated in a “Compassion Forum,” and seized the opportunity to talk about their commonalities with the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI—on war, on fighting poverty, on respecting the dignity of immigrants, on peaceful diplomacy, etc— upon his apostolic journey to the United States.
Sen. Barack Obama went as far as to endorse faith-based initiatives recently, though they would have to comply with secular standards that undermine the religious approach of such organizations, e.g. Christian organizations could not prefer to hire Christian people in their ministering to the needy. This is problematic and one should expect that this will come up later as Election Day draws near.
Another thing we can expect is the Republican Party’s nuclear weapons: abortion and gay marriage. Obama on both of those issues will find himself at odds with a majority of religious voters, particularly on the issue of abortion.
Read the whole article here.Obama's Call For Unity Faces Abortion Test
Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney showed up at Barack Obama's Capitol Hill office building Tuesday with a sign featuring a mockup of the presumptive Democratic nominee dressed as Uncle Sam. Under Obama's image were these words: "I WANT YOU TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS!"...Obama's health care plan would include expanded access to "reproductive health services" - including abortion - the Illinois senator will effectively mandate that taxpayers, among them people of faith that are strongly against abortion, pay for the procedure.
...“This is a man who stands up and says he is going to bring Republicans and Democrats together to achieve great things for the country," Rove said. “How can you claim to do that if you are at the same time supporting the divisive practice of using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion? You can’t. You cannot square that circle.”
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