Perkins is referring to Obama’s stance on abortion, same-sex-marriage, and secularism in general. Are these legislative policies that a Christian can support?
Barrack Obama is a Christian, admittedly so. He’s also a religious moderate–and this is a good thing. Not only does Obama accept his Christian faith as ‘faith’, something he cannot ‘prove’ to be true, but he also acknowledges that not everyone agrees with Christianity; nearly 25% of Americans identify as nonreligious (this doesn’t mean Atheist, or Agnostic, just nonreligious). President Obama is also religiously tolerant; he doesn’t believe that Christians should rule the world–this is critical for an American President. Obama also does not attend church regularly, unlike his predecessor George Bush, who could be found in Church nearly every Sunday during his presidency. Does that mean President Obama has no relationship with God? Of course not. Abraham Lincoln was told that if he didn’t attend to church during his campaign, he would surly lose the election; he was called an Atheist, a demagogue, and a charlatan. He still didn’t go to church. Yet, at times, he was reverent, spiritual,
