Christian groups are being urged to swamp town hall meetings. Some are being asked to attend and read the riot act to supporters of health care reform. It is, after all, against God’s plan for health reform, some religious right leaders now say.
As Democratic nominee Barack Obama became the new President-elect, the Christian right has been dealt a devastating defeat. Now it is time for Christian right to “recover.”
In a speech that he gave Saturday, at a convention of the United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama stated that leaders of the Christian Right have hijacked religion for their own political purposes, sowing division among voters.