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It all started rather innocuously when self described ex-gay gospel singer Donnie McClurkin was added to Senator Obama’s gospel tour. The tour was built to bring people together and shore up Mr. Obama’s religious credentials and the crucial black religious vote. Things started to sour almost immediately though because gay groups, who have bundled a lot of money for the senator, asked for the removal of the gospel singer or else.

Mr. Obama was faced with a decision to make that would make him choose between money from homosexuals and votes from black Christians. This story was a major part of the news cycle for the week and was embarrassing, to say the least, for the young candidate. He thinks that he has been able to find a third way that pleases both the gays and the Christians in this battle: he has added a homosexual preacher to the docket for his gospel tour. Is this going to sit well with the gay community?

Judging by an interview he did with Advocate, an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual) site, I would have to say that he is gay OK. Answering one of the questions Obama said:

Look, these kinds of issues are going to crop up inevitably through the course of campaigns. It’s important to recognize that these are issues that every Democratic candidate who has African-American ministers as supporters may have to confront. It just so happened that it popped up on the screen in this particular instance. But I assure you, I am not the only candidate who’s got a black minister or a white minister who’s supporting them prominently who subscribes to similar views.

Part of the reason that we have had a faith outreach in our campaigns is precisely because I don’t think the LGBT community or the Democratic Party is served by being hermetically sealed from the faith community and not in dialogue with a substantial portion of the electorate, even though we may disagree with them. [emphasis mine]

So Obama has basically deep sixed black ministers so he can pray at the alter of alternativism. What this whole episode really shows is that democrats have completely abandoned the value vote. They don’t believe in traditional values and as long as they can get the value voters from the black community by throwing them a bone once in a while during the campaign they will do that.

The fact of the matter is that even in states that are viewed to be left of center, like California and Oregon, gay marriage (the Holy Grail of homosexuality) has been summarily defeated each time and will continue to be defeated as long as religion persists in this country (I would peg the end of religion in America sometime around the day after the end of the world). Many people still view homosexuality as a choice and, above all, value our tradition of monogamous matrimony. Liberals, on the other hand, have no place for religion and tradition in their lives. I think they regularly go further and put down religion (as Obama has done by doing this interview with Advocate) in favor of their glorious alternative lifestyle brethren.

When asked by Advocate whether keeping the ex-gay singer on the tour was a slap in the face of gays in favor of Christians Obama had this to say:

No, I profoundly disagree with that. This is not a situation where I have backed off my positions one iota. You’re talking to somebody who talked about gay Americans in his convention speech in 2004, who talked about them in his announcement speech for the president of the United States, who talks about gay Americans almost constantly in his stump speeches. If there’s somebody out there who’s been more consistent in including LGBT Americans in his or her vision of what America should be, then I would be interested in knowing who that person is.

One of the things that always comes up in presidential campaigns is, if you’ve got multiple supporters all over the place, should the candidate then be held responsible for the every single view of every one of his supporters? And obviously that’s not possible. And if I start playing that game, then it will be very difficult for me to do what I think I can do best, which is bring the country together.

Look, when I went to Rick Warren’s church at Saddleback, he was under enormous heat because, among his constituency, my position on LGBT issues and my position on abortion is anathema. So his position could have been, we will not have Obama speak because he does not subscribe to our views on these two issues. To his credit, he allowed me to speak, in his church, from his pulpit, to 2,000 evangelicals. And I didn’t trim my remarks, I specifically told them, “I think you guys are wrong when it comes to issues like condom distribution.” And by the way, I got a standing ovation.

My views on gay issues and on choice issues are well-known. I did not trim my sails in the conversation I had with them. And I think as a consequence of appearances like that, I am helping to encourage understanding that will ultimately strengthen the cause of LGBT rights.

At some point, if we are going to have a conversation on these issues, what I expect to be judged by in the LGBT community is, have I been a strong advocate, have I been a forceful advocate, have I avoided these issues in any way. And If I have not, then that’s how I expect to be judged. [emphasis mine]

Good for Obama. At least he is standing up for what he believes in. He is the gay candidate and is proud of it. Of course this only means that he won’t get elected to anything more then senator.

The LGBT community doesn’t have the votes, the support, nor the money to make a huge difference in a national election. But among the leftists who are running the democrat party more so every day they are influential. Nowhere near as influential as they had hoped a couple of years ago when they were trying to push the comparison between LGBT issues with the Civil Rights movement decades before but still influential.

Religious types, on the other hand, really don’t have a seat at the table in the democrat party. This and other developments regarding the scope of their party’s support base is shaping up as a disaster for the democrat party. Increasingly it is being centered around Marxist ideology that rejects religion and traditional values in general in exchange for a new “democrat humanoid” (I was going to say person but that may be too restricting a phrase for liberals).

Obama has decided to stick to his principles and lose out on any chance of winning his party’s nomination so he can stand up for LGBTs. He’s not going to act like Hillary and don a fake Southern accent so he can fool Southern black Christians into voting for him. In the end this is going to preclude him from being a Vice Presidential candidate (maybe there would be a place for him in the Cabinet but just to keep him from running in 2012). He has sealed his fate here and I respect him for sticking to his guns on this issue. I may disagree with him but at least I know where he stands and know that he will stand up for his beliefs no matter what.

If he succumbs to electoral pressures and blatantly lies to feed the politician’s blood lust for pandering then I will doubly call him on it. In the end it won’t matter though because he has thrown in with the crowd that applauds mocking the Last Supper and not the crowd that worships the guest of honor at the Last Supper. BigT

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