‘Right wing has highjacked religion’

Barack Obama who is running for the Democrat nomination as Presidential candidate in the 2008 election has said that the powerful religious right has exploited its stance on abortion, same sex marriage and creationism to attack the Democrat Party.  Making a speech to a church convention Obama said that the religious right has used religion to ‘drive people apart.’ Obama also suggested that the religious right had promoted issues such as abortion, gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design, together with tax cuts and oppostion to gun control, ‘I don’t know what bible they’re reading but it doesn’t match my version.’ Instead Obama emphasised teachings on social justice, tolerance and tackling issues such as poverty.  Obama and his rival for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, are among the most religiously devout of all the potential candidates and Obama clearly wants to win back the relgious constituency from the Republican Party.

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