CULPEPER, Va. — D.J. Moberley, a 30-year-old evangelical Christian, seems an unlikely cog in the effort to elect Mitt Romney as president. He has no ties to the campaign, has been skeptical of the candidate’s Mormon faith, and says, “Mitt Romney is not someone I would have picked, that’s for sure.”
Nonetheless, the real estate appraiser spends hours chatting with his 900 Facebook friends and talking with fellow church members about Romney, all part of his effort to convince evangelicals who have qualms about Mormonism that they should support the former Massachusetts governor. Many other evangelicals are making similar efforts across the country.
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What does this have to do with Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's "LibyaGate" embassy foreign policy DEBACLE and COVERUP, which caused the deaths of 4 Americans, including the Libyan ambassador? --It's time for them to RESIGN.
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Loonies of a feather flock together...so Mitt and the evangelicals should thrive (right up until Mitt sells them out when he does another 180-flip-flop on one thing or another...Willard Etch-a-Sketch is, after all, a man of "maximum flexibility")
Mr. Obama is a man of faith also, so much for the loonies statement. Imagine your favorite Godless leader Hitler, Stalin, Mao...
Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 'Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.'
kmh, why do you think there's a god when every bit of reason and evidence indicates otherwise? Now excuse me, I'll get back here after I do some sinnin'...
***The motivating force is to defeat President Obama, whom Moberley criticized for supporting abortion rights and gay marriage, AMONG OTHER ISSUES*** Yeah, like being a black man in the White House.
Right wing evangelicals(there is the opposite) want a theocratic government. Romney has promised to promote this as President. This is the basis of their support. These wayward Americans misinterpret the first amendment, something that has prevented eternal conflict since we are not a homogeneous nation. In fact no religion has a majority any more in this country. It is critical that governing does not become dictatorial. Unfortunately it is part of Romney's agenda along with putting wayward business people in charge versus giving equal protection to working stiffs.
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Evangelicals want a religious leader. They're just forgetting about the compassion and forgiveness part.
Mitt Romney is a good man and a gentle man. Just because he worships the wrong god in the wrong way doesn't change the fact that he is a devoted man of god just the same. Evangelicals would rather have a man of god doing it wrong than a liberal who is a proven failure, any day of the week...
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"And who is my brother? they asked Jesus." And he told them of the good saqmaritan, a hated minority. Not one word in the new testament about gays. Perhaps there is a reason? What is the moral of the loaves and fishes? "Feed them" he said. Impossible, they said (in so many words). The first republicans. And this crowd thinks they are Christian.
Jesus never commented on homosexuality. However, he had quite a bit to say about money - for example, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
Let there be no doubt - the "religious right" embraces scripture selectively.
It's all so preposterous. Here we are in the 21st century, and the world continues to be tragically impacted on a daily basis, by scared humans who guide themselves and their decisions, based on frairytale books...The Bible, Koran, Talmud, etc...written by men thousands of years ago, who were 1600 years less intelligent and informed than the folks who believed in witches in Salem in the 1600s. It's really unfathomable how weak and stupid most humans are, and equally unfathomable that such stupidity causes the human pain and sufferring around the world, day in and say out, all in the Name OF GOD.
One would think that evangelicals would be more concerned with the 9th Commandment.
How is anyone surprised by this? The Christian right has always been much more about being right than Christian. A huge proportion of these people are the same ones, or descendants of the ones, who used Christianity to rationalize slave holding, Jim Crow and segregation. This is the same cult that believes that if they are wealthy it's because they are righteous. They never heard of Matthew 19: 23-24