Post by mesquite on Feb 11, 2015 0:52:59 GMT -5
“What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply,” Obama declared in his first inaugural address.
It shows Obama made some of the same political concessions that he decried in his rivals.
“I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman,” Obama told the Rev. Rick Warren in front of an audience at Saddleback Church, prompting applause. “Now, for me as a Christian, it’s also a sacred union. You know, God’s in the mix.” That kind of sentiment helped Obama capture a third of the young, white, evangelical vote in 2008 , triple the share John Kerry had won four years earlier.
"It was politically expedient,” said Cheryl Sanders, a professor of Christian ethics at Howard University.
Just this week the State Department confirmed that it will appoint a special diplomatic envoy to promote LGBT rights overseas.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2015/02/10/206f2b7c-b15e-11e4-827f-93f454140e2b_story.html?tid=hpModule_ba0d4c2a-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394
Republicans also talk the talk, but do not walk the walk. It is poltically correct to be politically expedient.
It shows Obama made some of the same political concessions that he decried in his rivals.
“I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman,” Obama told the Rev. Rick Warren in front of an audience at Saddleback Church, prompting applause. “Now, for me as a Christian, it’s also a sacred union. You know, God’s in the mix.” That kind of sentiment helped Obama capture a third of the young, white, evangelical vote in 2008 , triple the share John Kerry had won four years earlier.
"It was politically expedient,” said Cheryl Sanders, a professor of Christian ethics at Howard University.
Just this week the State Department confirmed that it will appoint a special diplomatic envoy to promote LGBT rights overseas.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2015/02/10/206f2b7c-b15e-11e4-827f-93f454140e2b_story.html?tid=hpModule_ba0d4c2a-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394
Republicans also talk the talk, but do not walk the walk. It is poltically correct to be politically expedient.