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Christian Right Intensifies Attacks on Obama

The Christian Right Heads For Hell

By ERIC GORSKI and RACHEL ZOLL - AP Religion Writers

Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts. All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," produced by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family Action.

The imagined look into the future is part of an escalation in rhetoric from Christian right activists who are trying to paint Obama in the worst possible terms as the campaign heads into the final stretch and polls show the Democrat ahead.

Although hard-edge attacks are common late in campaigns, the tenor of the strikes against Obama illustrate just how worried conservative Christian activists are about what should happen to their causes and influence if Democrats seize control of both Congress and the White House.


"It looks like, walks like, talks like and smells like desperation to me," said the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston, an Obama supporter who backed President Bush in the past two elections. The Methodist pastor called the 2012 letter "false and ridiculous." He said it showed that some Christian conservative leaders fear that Obama's faith-based appeals to voters are working.

Like other political advocacy groups, Christian right groups often raise worries about an election's consequences to mobilize voters. In the early 1980s, for example, direct mail from the Moral Majority warned that Congress would turn a blind eye to "smut peddlers" dangling pornography to children.

FULL STORY https://www.rr.com/view/content/story.cfm?storyId=6074499&view=HOME&newsgroup=9000&sSect=HOM_1

posted on Oct 24, 2008 6:27 PM ()

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The extreme right, the abortion clinic bombers and such would make America a theocracy. We can't have that.
comment by elderjane on Oct 26, 2008 8:38 AM ()
It becomes a left-right issue if you present only one side.
comment by grumpy on Oct 25, 2008 12:48 PM ()
If you are going to be fair my friend-you should also tell of the mis-truths and lies from the left side. Some of their stuff is pure unvarnished lies. God forbid they would the the truth get in their way. Yes I can provide examples.
comment by grumpy on Oct 24, 2008 6:50 PM ()

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