Fresh from the “Head, Meet Desk” department, I have here an article from the Christian Post taking Obama to task for some comments he made at the Saddleback Forum on Saturday:

Obama, the putative Democratic nominee, had glibly responded that “it’s above my pay grade” to answer specifically when asked the question on life.

“I think he needed to be more specific on that,” said Warren in an interview following the forum with Beliefnet.com. “I happen to disagree with Barack on that.

Read: He needed to be more pro-forced-birth.

The influential megachurch pastor wished Obama would have stated clearly that he did not believe life begins until “X” point or that it is a human being at “X” point.

Read: So he could have given a hysterical, bible-thumping sermon about how whichever “X” point Obama chose is OMG WRONG!

For those of you playing at home, by the way, the correct answer to this question is: “Life began, past tense, just once in the primordial soup (or on the backs of crystals, or whatever…). It has been continuing since then.” Seriously, for all you “life begins at conception” people, do you think sperm and eggs aren’t alive? And even if you’re going to nitpick and say “a new life begins at conception”, each individual sperm and egg has different DNA from the man or woman who created it, and from all the other individual sperm and eggs. So, by your own logic, every time a man ejaculates without getting a woman pregnant, he’s murdering 500,000,000 baybees! Hell, even if he does get a woman pregnant, he’s still murdering 499,999,999 baybees. You might want to think about that the next time you get all upset about a 6-week embryo being aborted.

Other evangelical leaders, such as Janet Folger, president of Faith2Action, also were dissatisfied with Obama’s answer to the abortion question.

She said the question could be interpreted as “when does a baby get human rights?” in which Obama’s voting record would reply “never.”

“He’s the only Senator in the entire Senate in Illinois who actually stood on the floor and spoke against protecting babies that were completely severed from the mother, that had survived the assault of an abortion,” Folger said during a teleconference with other evangelical leaders following the forum. “That answer should have been ‘never.’ He tried to avoid it, and it tells me that he shouldn’t be getting the pay grade of President.”

Yes, voting against a disingenuously-worded bill that completely failed to take the health or life of the mother into account (remember her?) is exactly the same thing as voting to kill baybees. No difference at all! Perhaps Ms. Folger would like to specify when she thinks women get human rights? I suspect I wouldn’t be satisfied with her answer.

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