Alan Keyes Quotes
Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved
Keyes was an extreme fundamentalist Christian. Obama was also a religious question but his version of Christianity was not as rigid and extreme as that of Keyes, who was able to determine exactly how Jesus Christ would have voted on every bill before the senate. Obama did not vote for a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and he supported the right of a woman to control her own body and have an abortion of she so decided. Obama won in a landslide including getting the vast majority of the religious vote. Keyes maintained that he had not attacked Obama for his own behavior but for the behavior he voted to enable.
Alan Keyes, U. S. Delegate to the United Nations, Candidate for Republican Presidential Nomination, Candidate for U.S. Senator from Maryland & Illinois (Republican), Campaign speech against his senatorial opponent, Barack Obama, 2004
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Alan Lee Keyes is an American conservative political activist, pundit, author and former ambassador.
