Obama warns opponents against 'using religion as a bludgeon in politics'

[cbayer]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/215651-obama-warns-against-using-religion-as-a-bludgeon-in-politics

By Alicia M. Cohn - 03/13/12 08:03 AM ET

President Obama warned against "using religion as a bludgeon in politics," pushing back against critics who have accused him of waging a "war on religion" through recent policy decisions.

Obama said it's a problem when religion is used "to divide, instead of bring the country together" in an interview that aired Monday on Iowa TV.

"When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem," Obama told Des Moines's local NBC affiliate, Who TV.

Obama was responding to recent accusations that he is engaged in a "war on religion" through recent actions such as the contraception mandate. Faith communities protested the White House's decision to require employers to provide contraception as part of their health insurance coverage, and the GOP presidential candidates decried the president as hostile to religious freedom.

more at link, including video of interview

[Rogerbuc]

1. HOW THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT MURDERS INNOCENT BABIES

The Religious Right does what Obama warns against.

This is not a slam against Christians but a serious discussion by a Christian using the language created by the Christian Right. In their language map a fetus is not a fetus but a baby and an abortion is not an abortion but murder. So what do you call it when a woman with the blessing of the Christian Right terminates a pregnancy that is the result of rape? The terminated pregnancy is the murder of an innocent baby- murdered by a Christian! If that sounds horrible, don't blame me, blame the language map.

The agenda of the Christian right makes the murder of innocent babies a necessary and moral good. When they invent a new restriction on abortion, they write into their legislation that the abortion restriction does not apply in the case of rape or incest. Imagine, it is OK to murder innocent babies when the circumstances of conception are immoral. But, why in the name of morality should these innocent babies be murdered when they did not cause the rape or incest?

When the innocent are being murdered with the blessing of the Christian Right what remains of Christianity? 
 
  

[Morning Dew]

3. I appreciate that take on how the Right uses language.

Welcome to DU !

[LeftishBrit]

2. Good for President Obama!

[deacon_sephiroth]

4. well what else are rethugs supposed to do???

they can't speak on foreign policy because americans don't agree with them
they can't speak on jobs, bailouts, economy, because it's obvious they were on the wrong side all along
they can't speak out against corruption, they ARE corruption
etc
etc
etc

If rethugs couldn't stand on the religion soap box and preach... they (like Rush) would have a lot of dead air time.