Oct 06 2009

Adopt a Liberal?

Published by Kevin Bussey at 4:00 am under politics, prayer

[NPR]

You can see why Christian conservatives might be in a funk. Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress. They see a liberal drift in the country’s leadership and worry about social issues like same-sex marriage, abortion, stem cell research, health care and immigration.

Now Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit legal, education and policy group associated with the late Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, is pulling out the heavy artillery: prayer.

“We believe in the power of God. We are commanded to pray for our leaders, even those we disagree with,” says Mat Staver, who, as head of Liberty Counsel, spends most of his time fighting for Christian causes in court. “And so we are asking people to pray so that our leaders are restored to right thinking.”

So far, 11 leaders are on the “Adopt a Liberal” roster: President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Republicans Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made the list for their support of same-sex marriage. Then there’s Democrat Barney Frank, Massachusetts’ openly gay congressman who, Staver says, is “100-percent committed to the homosexual agenda.”

Read more here.

[From me]

I don’t know about the name but I think prayer is the answer for all of our leaders on both sides. I pray for the President and Congress daily. But I’ve been doing it no matter what party is in charge.

What do you think?

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2 responses so far

2 Responses to “Adopt a Liberal?”

  1. # bill (cycleguy)on 06 Oct 2009 at 5:13 am

    Since I don’t believe God is neither Repub or Dem I think it is only best to pray for the leadership on both sides.
    .-= bill (cycleguy)´s last blog ..Acting Civil =-.

  2. # Monk-in-trainingon 06 Oct 2009 at 6:44 am

    Certainly these people prayed for Government officials of both parties, right? I did read the site, and it didn’t look as if they did, but I must be under a mistaken impression.

    What I did see was using prayer as some sort of weapon, like that ‘imprecatory prayer’ thing that went around a few weeks ago.

    St. Paul admonished us to pray for our leaders and lest we forget, the ultimate leader of his day was the ghastly Emperor Nero! Someone who used human beings as torches to light his parties at night.

    I do pray for Pres. Obama, as I did for Pres. Bush and others, Lord have mercy on us all.
    .-= Monk-in-training´s last blog ..Feast of St. Francis of Assisi =-.

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