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Technorati“And I remember May Day 2006, when I marched shoulder-to-shoulder with the Hispanic community to stand up for comprehensive immigration reform.”
He went on to talk about overcoming the divide between Republicans and Democrats and different Christian traditions.
“Whenever I hear folks talk about how we can’t come together as Protestants, Catholics and Jews, believers and non-believers alike, I think about the evangelicals I know who may not agree with progressives on every issue, but agree that poverty has no place in a world of plenty, that hate has no place in the hearts of believers, and that we all have an obligation to be good stewards of God’s creation,” he said.
Obama also shared about his conversion to Christianity as a young man working as a community organizer on the South side of Chicago, and further spoke of being raised in a secular household. His maternal grandparents, who helped raised him, were non-practicing Christians, while his mother was spiritual but not religious. His Kenyan father, who left the family when he was a few years old, was from a Muslim family.
Last month, a Barna survey found that 18 percent of born again likely voters said they would vote for Obama if the general election were held that day. In comparison, Clinton garnered 20 percent of born again likely voters support. Republican candidate Mike Huckabee, a former pastor, received 12 percent support, while no other candidate reached double figures, according to the Barna survey.
Thirty percent of born again likely voters in the early February survey said they are still undecided as to who to support.
But the number of born again Obama supporters may have gone up, given that a recent e-mail from the Obama campaign announced that Obama had won the faith vote by large margins in every primary and caucus so far.
Besides the Brownsville event, Obama also made an impromptu visit to the Texas-Mexico border and a local neighborhood festival.
The democratic primaries in Texas and Ohio will be held Tuesday.
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