What’s Going On . . .
Sorry, no Marvin Gaye here, just religion and presidential politics.
So What Did Happen When Obama Met With Evangelicals?
Apparently, it got a little strange.
“They focused on abortion, gay marriage, and then Franklin Graham tried to get Sen. Obama saved,” said the Rev. Eugene Rivers of Boston.
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“His genuine faith seemed obvious,” Cizik said.
This is wholly inappropriate. The purpose of such a meeting is not to judge, or change, the salvation status or the genuineness of faith or ANY candidate – even one I disagree with as fully as I disagree with Obama. Such a discussion strikes me as a variation of the same game that was played with Romney. And this unarguably inside our faith – none of the questions about a heterodox faith that plagued Romney are at play here.
Such questioning is just wrong – unless, of course, Obama called for personal counseling, in which case I ought not be reading about it in the press.
And the worst part? Once again we Evangelicals come out looking the fools.
Speaking of Obama – about that Evangelical support he has been getting….
Double Standard?
OH YEAH! On Faith asks this week:
Hindu groups have protested that “The Love Guru,” the latest Mike Myers movie, exposes their faith to ridicule. Where is the line between acceptable humor about religion and offensive disrespect?
Apparently, there are a little over a million Hindu’s in the US. As compared to roughly six million Mormons. Yet in the last two years has anybody been worried about”acceptable humor” with the Mormons? If the idea is not to offend, it seems to me the odds of offending someone in a group of six million, versus one million are much higher. So why now, and why this?
Could it be because other agendas are at play? You know, maybe political ones?
Lowell adds: Politics is probably part of it. So, definitely, is political correctness. Mormonism is perceived as a religion of Anglo-Saxons, and is thus not subject to any restrictions imposed by the PC police. (Never mind that half the membership of the Church is Hispanic.) Hindus are generally not Anglo-Saxons (an understatement, to be sure) so it is not acceptable to ridicule them in the entertainment media. But when you add Romney’s white, Anglo-Saxon status to his Mormonism and then to his wealth and then to his conservative Republican ideology, you have a man for whom no insult or ridicule is out of bounds. Remember the reporter who went sneaking around the bathroom of Romney’s home to see what his underwear was like, and actually reported on that?
Finally . . .
. . . in “praise” of Mormon organization. Just an aside from this Evangelical – the Mormon lay leadership style is what I most admire about them.
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