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On May 9, 2012 President Obama announced in an interview with ABC
News that his views on same-sex marriage had "evolved" and that he
now supports the idea. Many Christians found the President's
pronouncement to be disappointing but certainly not surprising, but
what was most alarming was that he cited his Christian faith to
justify his position. President Obama, a professing Christian,
seems bizarrely confused on a wide range of moral and religious
issues. Furthermore, as Catholic bishops have charged, his
administration poses the greatest threat to religious liberty in
American history. This publication is a study of where Barack Obama
got his ideas about the Christian faith. As such, this is a
theological assessment, not a personal or a political critique.
Tracing the roots of Obama's theology is significant because, as he
has stated, it is his understanding of the Gospel that informs and
influences not only his social and political ideology but his views
on some of the most controversial moral and ethical issues of our
day. The thesis of this study is that Obama's understanding of
Christianity has been influenced primarily by two factors: (1)
Mainline Protestant theological liberalism as mediated through the
United Church of Christ; and (2) Black Liberation Theology as
advocated by his long-time pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Both of
these influences are serious distortions of traditional orthodox
biblical Christianity, and as such it calls into question whether
or not Obama understands the nature of true Christianity.
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