President Obamas Broken Promises: Race, Religion & Gay Rights

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President Obama's Broken Promises - Race, Religion & Gay Rights (Paperback)

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It was in Chicago that the U. The religious turning point Obama experienced in Chicago also provides a spiritual narrative that many voters find appealing in their presidential candidates.

However, Democrats and independents are less likely than Republicans to say they completely agree with this view. During the presidential horserace, Obama was far more willing to speak publicly about his faith and the positive impact religion can have on public life than was the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, who told journalists at a Pew Forum event that he could have done a better job explaining his faith.

Bush, who made religious language a hallmark of his campaigns and presidency. In the election, Obama made a concerted effort to reach out to evangelical Christians and other people of faith who tended to vote Republican in past presidential elections. Among nearly every religious group, Obama received equal or higher levels of support compared with support for Kerry in Still, a sizeable gap persisted between the support Obama received from white evangelical Protestants and his support among the religiously unaffiliated.

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Similarly, a sizeable gap existed between those who attend religious services regularly and those who attend less often. While Obama tried to emphasize during the campaign the positive role religion can play in public life, a controversy surrounding his longtime pastor and the man who brought him to faith, the Rev. However, Wright continued to speak publicly about some of his most provocative theories, including the allegation that the U.

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He was selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend the University of Hawaii as the first African student there. Obama was 2 years old when his parents divorced.

Although he and his father communicated through letters, Obama saw him only one other time, at age She had this enormous capacity for wonder, and lived by the Golden Rule. But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution.

Transcript: Obama's full speech about the 'politics of fear and resentment' - CNNPolitics

There, he attended a Catholic private school and later a predominantly Muslim public school. When Obama was 10 years old, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, while his mother — who wanted him to receive an American education — remained in Indonesia. Obama graduated in And I heard [the] Rev. I learned that my sins could be redeemed. I learned that those things I was too weak to accomplish myself, He would accomplish with me if I placed my trust in Him.

And in time, I came to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world and in my own life. Influenced by the civil rights struggles of the s, black liberation theology advocates a black-centered Christianity focused on eradicating racism and poverty. After law school, Obama returned to Chicago and reconnected with the church. Wright was the first person Obama thanked when he won his U. Senate seat in Obama has challenged some on the political left who advocate a strict secularism in public life.

Some of the problem here is rhetorical — if we scrub language of all religious content, we forfeit the imagery and terminology through which millions of Americans understand both their personal morality and social justice. And it puts the lie to the notion that the separation of church and state in America means faith should have no role in public life.

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