WASHINGTON – The leader of one of the world’s largest Christian women’s ministries gave high praises to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as she refuted claims that the Alaska governor is unqualified for the office.
“She’s just as qualified as Obama is qualified,” defended Jane Hansen Hoyt, president of the 200,000-member Aglow International ministry, to The Christian Post.
Hoyt, who was in town for the Aglow national conference this past weekend, added, “She’s a smart woman, she’s intelligent, she has on-the-job experience that is very powerful and she brings that experience to Washington.”
Palin, the first woman to be on a Republican presidential ticket, has come under a barrage of criticism for what some consider her lack of experience, especially in foreign policy. She has been the governor of Alaska for two years and was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, before that.
However, her addition to the Republican ticket has injected excitement to the prior lackluster GOP base.
In particular, Christian right leaders such as Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family were quick to applaud Republican presidential John McCain’s running mate selection.
Like many evangelical leaders, Palin is a social conservative who is adamantly against abortion, gay “marriage,” and openly speaks about her Christian faith.
“I also love that she spoke to mothers, mothers of special needs children, saying you will have an advocate in Washington,” Hoyt offered. “It is that kind of heart.”
The Aglow president dismissed concerns that Palin won’t be able to juggle both a high-demanding political position and be a mother of five, including an infant with Down syndrome.
“We can function outside of the confines of the home,” Hoyt said. “People interestingly have questioned 'can Sarah raise a family? How can she serve in government and raise a family?' She said 'I’ll do it the same way the men do it.'"
Aglow ministry held this past weekend, exactly 40 days before the presidential election, its “A Voice for the Times: Calling Women to Transform their Nation” conference to encourage women to participate in the election and to pray for a spiritual revival in the country.
More than 2,000 evangelical women from across the country took part in the conference held in Washington, D.C.
Hoyt noted that women can well be the swing factor in the election because they make up 52 to 54 percent of the voting power.
“[T]heir voice be heard,” Hoyt declared, “that they’re not only heard in the context of a traditional woman’s role, but that the true feminism that God intended for the woman’s role that that comes forth in strength.”
Speakers at the Capitol Hill prayer rally on Saturday included Sam Brownback (R-Kan.); the Rev. Pierre Bynum, chaplain and national prayer director of the Family Research Council; Chaplain Alan Keiran, chief of staff at the Office of the U.S. Senate Chaplain; and Dr. Corinthia Boone, chairman of the Capital Region National Day of Prayer.
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Did Obama support the murder of Christians in Kenya? Aparently he raised $1 million dollars to his uncle who did.
i would like to know how the quote unquote religious leaders can sit and say they are supporting someone who has been proven to be a lier, yet you all want to quote the scrioture that says that God hates a lier and a lier will not tarry in his site. do you all have to wonder why you all can not win the majority of the lost. further more i believe this shows me the hidden racism in the church starting at the pulpit. and oh yea I am a born again believer and live a saved cellabus life, but do not support any liers.
pro-choice is by definition, not pro-life. If Obama was pro-life, he would not be complicit in the death of the unborn or the newly born who survived abortion attempts by voting against pro-abortion bills and voting for pro-life bills. Yet, he has repeatedly chosen to not do so.
Obama was endorsed by Planned Parenthood over Hillary Clinton. He stated publicly that he would not allow his daughters to endure pregnancy for the sake of protecting his own grandbabies.
He has stated on record that the first thing that he would do in office is force all states to provide abortions - even those whose populace has decided not to participate in the slaughter of the innocent.
NObama is the problem!
Obama has been groomed by radical black liberation theologians.
Obama has been groomed by radical red communists.
Obama was friends with terrorist Bill Ayers.
Obama is a threat to freedom of speach.
Obama has no executive experience.
Obama has been raised up by corrupt Chicago politics.
Obama's VP stated that Obama is not worthy of the oval office.
Obama and Biden's new campaign strategy is to project themselves as Reagan conservatives - this is either a lie or it is true: If it is true then why would liberals want to vote for him; if it is a lie, then why trust him?
scitsonga
You have said...
"Perhaps among the evangelicals, not many others. There were others on board at first, she gave a couple good teleprompter speechs, but after that, not so good without props. Many folks that were intially excited about her now realize she is not what she first appeared to be..."
It is very clear that there has been a strong divide during this election between liberal and conservative thinking, especially amongst the faith community.
This is strongly encouraged in the news media to keep the voters interest, and I find that too many interest groups are playing right into it.
Personally, I am supporting McCain. Is he the best choice? No. Is he the better choice? Yes. I feel the same about Palin.
In all my years, I have yet to see an election where the ideal candidate(s) is running. But I have also never seen the liberal/conservative divide so strongly across all interest groups as it is in this election.
To say Obama is not pro-abortion is not factual.
"In 1999 a gruesome discovery was made that an Illinois hospital was shelving babies to die in a soiled utility room who had survived their abortions.
The Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act was introduced in 2001 to provide legal protection to all born babies, wanted or not, including the right to medical care.
Then state Senator Barack Obama voted against Born Alive 4 times in 3 years and was the sole senator to speak against it on the Senate floor in 2001 and 2002.
In 2002, the Federal version of Born Alive passed unanimously in the US Senate and by overwhelming voice vote in the House. The pro-abortion group NARAL even went neutral on the bill.
But In 2003, Barack Obama voted against the identical version of Born Alive in Illinois. Then, for the next 4 years he repeatedly misrepresented his vote until it was recently discovered in the IL General Assembly archives.
This is what Obama voted against:
A live child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate protection under the law.
It is very easy to know what Obama does for abortion....
I have loved ones in Iraq and elsewhere fighting the
war on terror. Innocents in Iraq have a hope for
democracy and the end to the brutal treatment of women
because of our brave, courageous military.
You girlymen for Obama could learn from them. They give
of their time and lives for others quit making excuses
for evil.
If you don't realize how unqualified Palin is, you're not paying much attention lately. As an evangelical, I'm becoming more and more embarrassed by Palin. I hope tomorrow is not too painful.
lpepper, "Obama not only promotes this he wants you to pay for it with your tax
dollars."
No he doesnt support abortion, he doesnt like abortion, but he also knows that individuals should have the right to choose for themselves.
As far as the tax dollar thing goes, the US is responsible for the death and destruction in Iraq at the tune of 12 billion dollars a month, i dont like that, yet most christians on CP dont seem to have a problem with it....Save the fetus and the embryo, but not much concern for the misery of the innocent Iraqi. The good CP folks should be outraged with what the US has done to Iraq, but they dont seem to be, its really pathetic. Funny how an agnostic such as myself see the immorality of the US invasion of Iraq, but the good christians of America seem to miss it, as I said, pathetic.
There is no reason or excuse for a Christian
man or woman to accept, condone or gloss over
abortion and infanticide. Obama not only promotes
this he wants you to pay for it with your tax
dollars. Stand up for your beliefs. Be strong in the Lord.
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
halver "Palin is still very much enjoying the popularity bump from when she was first introduced."
Perhaps among the evangelicals, not many others. There were others on board at first, she gave a couple good teleprompter speechs, but after that, not so good without props. Many folks that were intially excited about her now realize she is not what she first appeared to be....
"Qualifications are most important."
Exactly why palin is in over her head, most see this. She is not qualified
halver, your not alone in trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear............
steveh20
you have asked...
"if she is such an asset is she being kept so much out of the limelight now, surley after that great start they would want to build on that?"
Palin is still very much enjoying the popularity bump from when she was first introduced.
But we have to remember that she is not running for President.
Her exposure is for the support of McCain, just as Biden is for Obama.
Palin and Biden should not be in the spotlight as much much as McCain and Obama.
And as Obama is finding out, popularity can take you a long way, but perhaps not the distance.
Qualifications are most important.
dp, it is true I think that biden sometimes makes comments that are off base and wrong. The other candidates are also guilty of making rather absurd and senseless comments- obama and mccain. But the three aforementioned candidates are also capable of, and have demonstrated, in depth analysis of complex and important issues of the day. So far, I have not seen any of that with palin. She neither has the intellect nor has not bothered to take the time to learn in much detail the issues that face the US and the world. She is as they say a mile wide and a millimeter deep. I will say that she does a fine job reading off the TelePrompTer, bush can even do that.
The reason the press has very limited access to palin is that the mccain staff has, belatedly, realized that she is in over her head and is now in damage control mode. The mccain staff did not take a deep and critical look at palin, much to their regret now, to see her short comings. We do not need another eight years of shallow, superficial leadership. We see what eight years of bush has gotten us. It's now time for a leader with intelligence and critical thinking skills. Sen. Obama is an extremely intelligent and gifted leader. Obama will be the next US president. America has had enough with the stupid people and most Americans now realize the need for intelligence at the top.
"I noted your surprise over the scrutiny and furor over a VP candidate."
My problem is they are only looking at one of the VP candidates. If Palin said just one of the stupid things Obama's right hand man says on a daily basis...they would cruicify her in the news. Yet, you don't hear about any of the stupid things he says.... Why not?
The mainstream media helps me quite a bit to know who to vote for...if they like them...I vote for the other guy.
"In my 40-plus years of voting, I've never seen such intense scrutiny over a vice presidential candidate."
Did you hear what she said about all those reporters and Obama people up in Alaska trying to find dirt on her? She said they can send as many as they want as long as they spend lots of money for the local economy!!!
vicking, I had same problem when I tried to use HoChiMinh, with word separated out. took me a few times to figure it out too, the system didnt like the first two letters- very silly........