Christians who voted for Obama - are you happy now?

James L. Lambert - Guest Columnist - 5/1/2009 9:25:00 AM

Last summer, I was in Long Beach, California, attending a Christian evangelistic event. Sitting next to me was a vocal, female supporter of Barack Obama. Because of my proximity to her, I tried to tell her the reasons why I opposed his candidacy. I cited his liberal voting record while a member of both the U.S. Senate and the Illinois legislature, not to mention his extreme pro-abortion stand.
 
But regardless what I said, the young lady remained enamored with the 47-year-old Democratic "community organizer" -- and she shared with me that she "felt" God wanted her to vote for him. She believed we needed a change.
 
Boy, did we get a change! But is it the type of change that Christians like as this young girl really wanted?

Here are just some of the "changes" that his Election Day supporters -- which reportedly included millions of professed Christians -- can revel in as a result of his first 100 days in office:

• President Obama signed an executive order that effectively provides federal taxpayer funding of abortions worldwide.
• Obama's U.S. State Department has officially eliminated the phrase "war on terror" from their lexicon, electing instead to refer to those efforts as "overseas contingency operations." They don't want to offend anyone including our enemies.
• During a recent overseas diplomatic trip, Obama chose not to verbally defend his own country when longtime Marxist Daniel Ortega launched into a 45-minute tirade against the U.S.
• The $787-billion Obama "stimulus" package was passed without the majority of legislators even reading the bill. The administration is virtually ignoring the huge, escalating debt problems ($1.2 trillion for the next 12 months) we now face.
• Obama's Department of Homeland Security labeled pro-life advocates and Second Amendment defenders as "rightwing extremists" in a nine-page report. That report was disseminated to law enforcement representatives all over the country just prior to the April 15 "TEA party" demonstrations that took place in more than 800 cities across America.
• President Obama nominated David Ogden to the #2 position at the Department of Justice. Ogden has a long history as a legal advocate for the porn industry. How does this appointment help the American family?
• President Obama's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admitted during his Senate confirmation hearings that he owed back taxes in excess of $100,000. Ironically, Geithner is now in charge of the Internal Revenue Service.
• Obama's administration has deepened the federal government's involvement in independent companies (like AIG, Bank of America, GM, and Chrysler to name a few). For the first time in my lifetime, an American president has ordered the CEO (General Motor's Rick Wagoner) of a private corporation to be removed. Instead of allowing the automaker to go bankrupt, the federal government has permitted auto unions (a longtime Democratic Party ally) to now have a strong representation on GM's board.
• Obama had said he wants to create a $634 billion fund to pay for healthcare reforms. The end result will allow the federal government to be the predominant player in 17 percent of the nation's healthcare industry.
• Since he moved into the White House, Barack Obama has expressed interest in a cap-and-trade system to control carbon emissions and raise revenues (i.e., tax increases). House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) says "cap-and-trade is code for increasing taxes, killing American jobs, and raising energy costs."
• As president, Obama has told his supporters that he will fight for passage of an amnesty bill that will give a passage to citizenship for anywhere from 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants -- despite polling data that tell us more than 70 percent of Americans disapprove of such a policy. This couldn't come at a worse time with government social assistance programs (food stamps, Social Security, Medicare, welfare, unemployment aid, federal housing programs, etc.) being pushed to the limit.
• Democratic leadership, in concert with the White House, is currently working on passing "hate crimes" legislation (H.R. 1913). This bill seriously jeopardizes religious freedom of speech in America. A pastor's sermon on the issue of sexual orientation, for example, could be considered "hate speech" under the already-passed House version of the bill -- and prosecutable under federal law.

Those of us in the faith community should be worried about where our country is now headed. And if you are among the professed Christians who voted for Barack Obama in November, you should realize by now that this might not be the "change" you were hoping for. The future of our beloved country is now at stake.

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