Obama: Democrats Must Court Evangelicals

I don't see how this can be done, short of everyone dropping their current religous beliefs and joining the fundamentalist churches.--Dictynna

Wednesday June 28, 2006 4:16 PM

By DAVID ESPO

AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday for failing to ``acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people,'' and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and other churchgoing Americans.

``Not every mention of God in public is a breach to the wall of separation. Context matters,'' the Illinois Democrat said in remarks to a conference of Call to Renewal, a faith-based movement to overcome poverty.