Posted: 06/27/08

Brian McLaren: Emissary for Barack Obama to Evangelicals *Updated*

*Update: Brian McLaren has posted on the AP story at his own blog. He says he was not an emissary for Barack Obama to evangelicals. He only spoke at one of Obama's conferences and is a member of the Obama-supporting Acts 25 Network. And his point is exactly what? He says he hopes abortion rights champion Obama will win in the election. He's encouraging evangelicals to vote the same way. This statement by McLaren is the same as Rick Warren expressing outrage over a news story that claimed he was meeting with the members of the gay SoulForce group on Father's Day. Warren loudly denounced such false reporting, but failed to mention that while he wouldn't be at the meeting, his church officials would be. Methinks that McLaren doth protest too much.*

Here's a telling quote from an Associated Press story yesterday about evangelicals and the election.

Meanwhile, Obama's campaign is aggressively reaching out to evangelicals. The Illinois senator dispatched former 9/11 Commission member Tim Roemer to meet with fellow Roman Catholics. He sent Brian McLaren, one of the country's most influential pastors, to meet with fellow evangelicals. And aides have conducted more than 200 "American Values Forums," soon to be followed up with house parties and town hall-style meetings aimed at young Catholics and young evangelicals.

Mr. Social Justice himself, the one who has railed against evangelicals for failing to "live like Jesus" and care for the poor, the disenfranchised, the outcasts of society, the same McLaren who has lashed evangelicals for their attachment to the Republican party and their politicizing of Christianity, is openly shilling for the most radical-left Democratic candidate in history. Obama, who openly opposed legislation that would have saved little babies who survived an abortion in the state of Illinois (The Born Alive Infant Protection Act), was even called an abortion rights radical by the Washington Post. Emerging church author and leader, Brian McLaren, is now openly working as an emissary of the Obama campaign to attract Christians to this pro-death candidate. The reek of hypocrisy is overwhelming here, Mr. McLaren. The blood of 50 million aborted children saturates our soil here in America. That's more than Hitler and Stalin managed to kill combined. You can sob into your hanky about global warming and polar ice caps and carbon emissions. I'm with the babies, and I will vote for no person who defends their slaughter.

I am not a Republican. I am a Christian, and no Republican or Democrat who wars against God's moral law and defends gay marriage, child killing or using human embryos for experimentation will get my vote. You can take that to the bank. McLaren has no moral compass because he rejects God's Word as his only standard. You will notice a distinct correlation between those who reject God's Word and their support for pro-death, pro-gay marriage candidates, and every other cause that is a revolt against heaven. That's why the emerging church leaders and followers are up to their armpits in Obama campaign materials. When God's Word gets thrown out, it affects every aspect of our lives and ethics. Ideas have practical consequences for men and nations.

Here's a related article from today's ABC News political blog. Michelle Obama reaffirmed her husband's support for gay rights and his opposition to the Defense of Marriage act last night at the Gay/Lesbian Leadership Council in New York City. Imagine: Obama can oppose something called the "Defense of Marriage Act" and still have the support of "evangelical" leaders like Brian McLaren, T.D. Jakes and KirbyJon Caldwell. Then again, when we have "Hell's Bells" as prelude music in church today as I recently reported, are we surprised? Hell seems to be the inspiration for a lot going on in church these days.

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