LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY navytron89) Fromamericablog

Now THAT'S what I like to hear.

"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us apart," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a 30-minute speech before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ.

"Faith got hijacked, partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, all too eager to exploit what divides us," the Illinois senator said.

"At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design," according to an advance copy of his speech.

"There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich," Obama said. "I don't know what Bible they're reading, but it doesn't jibe with my version."

Its nice to see that  Obama has basically given the verbal finger to the Religious Reich and told the public that they should start thinking forthemselves and stop letting the church run their lives by dividing them with Biblical fear-mongering.

Since he has basically told them off,  I'm curious to what will be the replies from the Christian Coalition and see how they react and spin-doctor their replies back to villianize him for his comments. I can see Asshat Robertson taking the first shot from his 666 Club, of course anything that he says in reply will of course make Robertson look like an even bigger asshat. 

But religious twits like Chick and others will probably pull a swift-boat anti-Christian strike against him and say all kinds of nasty rumors and question his "Christian" America values. 

I'd like to see how Faux News handles this, as they mostly ignore the Democrats or do negative spins toward their pollings to make the GOP seem all right and strong.