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Re: Warnings about Obama and abortion

acidqueen — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:11:42 -0400

Daniel Akin needs to keep his laws off of my body. I have to take birth control pills so that I can actually have a menstrual cycle (for the literate: look up Stein-Leventhal Syndrome sometime). If Akin and others like him get his way, I and others in my boat will be well and truly hooped--but at least his capricious child-god won't consider me a sinner who's bound for the mythical lake of fire...well not for that, anyway.

Re: Warnings about Obama and abortion

domewatcher — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:55:24 -0400

I must agree that Obama has the edge in separating church and state. He separated himself from Jeremiah Wright in world record time.

So much for the separation of church and state

scharrison — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:46:24 -0400

"To wit: Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, sent an e-mail to students titled “Why Faithful Evangelicals Cannot Vote for Barack Obama,” reports Yonat Shimron."

Which is a blatant violation of IRS tax exemption rules, and should result in the immediate revocation of SBTS's tax exempt status. But it won't.

Warnings about Obama and abortion

bkrueger — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:57:56 -0400

Evangelical Christians may not have been natural supporters of John McCain, but the prospect of a Barack Obama presidency is much scarier.

To wit: Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, sent an e-mail to students titled “Why Faithful Evangelicals Cannot Vote for Barack Obama,” reports Yonat Shimron.

The answer, in a word, is abortion.

The e-mail includes an editorial by Princeton University professor Robert P. George which describes Obama as “the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States.”

Evangelicals aren’t the only ones concerned about abortion. North Carolina’s two Roman Catholic bishops sent out a joint e-mail saying much the same thing without citing any candidate by name.

In his preface to the editorial, Akin wrote, "It is incumbent upon every believer... to vote their conscience and to further let their conscience be guided by the Word of God. Nowhere is this more important than in the area of abortion, an issue on which God’s word is abundantly clear.”

Many evangelicals fear an Obama presidency will further forestall the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that made abortion legal.