Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. Part of it’s because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us. At every opportunity, they’ve told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design…I don’t know what Bible they’re reading, but it doesn’t jive with my version.”
- presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.)
in an address to the national meeting of the United Church of Christ
from the Associated Press (June 23) by way of The Journal of Student Ministries
