Posted by REV. ANDRE G. DENIS D.D.
October 22, 2012 -
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REV. ANDRE G. DENIS D.D. Is Obama the 'wrong' kind of Christian? ,: I SAY NO, Historians may remember Obama as the nation’s first black president, but he’s also a religious pioneer. He’s not only changed people’s perception of who can be pre... more Is Obama the 'wrong' kind of Christian? ,: I SAY NO, Historians may remember Obama as the nation’s first black president, but he’s also a religious pioneer. He’s not only changed people’s perception of who can be president, some scholars and pastors say, but he’s also expanding the definition of who can be a Christian by challenging the religious right’s domination of the national stage. When Obama invoked Jesus to support same-sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for “the least of these,’’ and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life so much that it gave the nation its first megachurches, historians say.
