Christian extremist won't vote for Obama

You've probably never heard of him, but he's decided that Barack Obama is just not the right person to be president of the United States.

His name is James L. Lambert and he wrote a guest column for the Christian right news service, onenewsnow.com. He's pretty proud that in making this decision to vote no on Obama, he's in the company of such noteworthys as "Bill Keller, James Dobson, former NFL player and pastor Dr. O'Neal Dozier, Dr. Gary Cass, and Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who all believe the Illinois senator would be a bad choice."

Most of those "important" folks I've never heard of but I suppose they're in the upper echelon of Christian right poohbahs.

And why, you ask, do all of these good folks think Obama would be a "bad choice"?

Well, like the frightfully freaky biblical scholar and theologian, James Dobson said, Obama is "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology."

Now, to understand that, you have to realize that Dobson's "traditional understanding of the Bible" is less than a hundred years old, and his theology is so confused he thinks that he can take one or two verses from the Hebrew bible while ignoring all the rest to build theological judgment points.

But Lambert goes on to note that "Dobson and others" don't much like Obama's position on same-sex marriage, the right of a woman to choose, partial-birth abortion, and the real biggie - "his tendency to favor a socialistic philosophy in government."

What the hell does that mean? Lambert doesn't explain, but such a statement reflects how Christian fundamentalism has adopted free-market capitalism has a major part of its theology.


Lambert, helping the undecided decide who to pull the lever for in the voting booth, blasts Obama because:

He spoke at a Planned Parenthood convention, which obviously means he is "a strong defender of the abortion industry." (Notice the code word, "industry," which carries an undercurrent of nastiness, maybe even Mafia connections!)

Obama "recently appeared in the gay magazine Advocate." And we all know god hates gays!

This is really bad. Contrary to all fundamentalist screeds, Obama thinks maybe god is big enough to accept a variety of people into heaven, even those who don't take Genesis literally, or think that Jesus was born of a little Jewish virgin, or that he jumped out of that tomb and flew off into the sky into what St. Paul calls the "seventh heaven." Lambert says Obama's position reflects "big tent" salvation. I like that. But Lambert says it "runs completely contrary to scripture." Oh, oh! Send in the clowns, Obama!

Isn't it interesting that we have thousands of religious groups all calling themselves Christian and all of them believe they know what is "according to scripture" and what is "contrary to scripture?"

Obviously, they can't all be right. It would appear that god really screwed up. Why put out a collection of books like the bible, the meaning of which nobody can agree on? Furthermore, if you believe that god is just, that would mean he/she would have to make things right. A just god can't condemn someone to the eternal excruciating pain of constant fire if it was his/her own fault that the person couldn't figure out what god really meant! So maybe Obama's "big tent" is right and the fundys are wrong!

Lambert says that Obama negates "The sacrifice of Christ on the cross." And when it comes to the Supreme Court, you just know Obama would nominate "extremely liberal" justices!

And Lambert is worried about all the "ignorant" blacks out there who just don't understand what Obama is up to and will vote for him simply because he is "black." Obama's black? Hells bells! He's got a white mother. I thought he was white! The Jewish people believe if your mother is Jewish, you are a Jew. Shouldn't it work the same way for blacks?

Anyway, Lambert wants more black preachers in the black community "to teach Christians the importance of living right before God."

Lambert also accuses Obama of trying to get the so-called evangelistic vote by "aggressively marketing himself as a Christian." You know, it seems to me that one of the biblical no-no's is to bear false witness against another. That doesn't seem to bother clowns like Lambert, though. Obama is not really a Christian, they say, because he doesn't believe in the "core" beliefs of Christianity. Bill Keller, whoever the hell he is, says "He doesn't believe in Hell...Obama has stated that even though his mother didn't believe in Christ as her savior, she is in Heaven."


Lambert, Dobson, Keller and all the rest of these bozos are very sick people. They are enough to turn anyone away from the God they profess and the Christ they claim to follow. Who in hell would want to spend eternity with any one of these religious freaks?

Lastly, but most importantly, none of this has a goddamn thing to do with Obama's qualifications to be president of the United States! There is no religious test for public office in this country but, unfortunately, that bit of constitutional trivia has passed right over the bloated heads of these fundamentalist phonies!

There are important issues that we face as a country; life-threatening issues. But whether or not a presidential candidate believes in hell is not one of them!