Black Pastors Oppose Obama’s Gay Marriage Support

African-American Church Leaders Condemn Obama For Gay Marriage Support Via The Blaze: Just days after President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, pastors and priests around Maryland took to their own pulpits with their reaction– and in some cases– condemnation of the president. [...] When Obama announced that his position on same-sex marriage had evolved, it outraged some African-American pastors like Pastor and Del. Emmett Burns. “He has said to his base, African-Americans, ‘I am going against your beliefs and your thoughts,’” Burns said. He’s so opposed to same-sex marriage, he told church members he will no longer support the president and now predicts Obama will lose the election because of it. He and many other leaders are pouring their energies into gathering the signatures needed to put Maryland’s same-sex marriage law on the November ballot. “I think it might be a call to action for people to really express what they believe,” Father Erik Arnold of Our Lady of Perpetual Help said. In Maryland, some of the strongest opposition to the law has come from the black community– about 30 percent of the population. Some African-American religious leaders are preaching about it “God said in every home, there needs to be a representation of his glory through manhood and femininity,” Pastor Harry Jackson, Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, said. Black Pastor: I absolutely, vehemently disagree with Obama: Pastor of Baltimore Maryland’s Empowerment Temple, Jamal Bryant spoke with Roland Martin, correspondent on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, today about President Obama’s announcing his support of gay marriage. “I absolutely, vehemently disagree with the president,” Bryant told Martin. “I agree with his presidency, but with this policy, I do not agree. Marriage is the original institution of the church. When asked if he will vote for the president again, Bryant said, “I think, given the option I’ve got, which is Mitt Romney, I’ve got no choice.” MORE - Kenyan Clerics Blast Obama on Gay Marriage Stance: Legalizing What ‘God Himself Objects’ - Black Pastors Blast Obama - Backlash in the black community over gay marriage (Video)

FLASHBACK: Obama Wanted High Gas Prices (Videos)

OBAMA FAVORS HIGH GAS PRICES TO ADVANCE HIS GREEN ENERGY AGENDA Summary: “Obama and his Administration have repeatedly stated that they want higher energy prices. They want to use the pressure of higher energy costs as an excuse to force their green energy boondoggle on Americans.”
H/t: NewsBusters.
Obama 2008: ‘Under my plan, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket’
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Obama 2008 on High Gas Prices: ‘I’d Have Preferred a Gradual Adjustment’
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Obama’s Energy Czar Steven Chu also Said he Wanted High Gas Prices Chu in 2008: Energy Dept Working To Wean U.S. Off Oil, Not Lower Gas Prices
In 2008, Chu advocated for $10-a-gallon gas prices: Obama’s secretary at the Department of Energy, said in an interview that gas taxes should slowly be increased over the next 15 years in order to force people to turn to alternative energy sources. “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to levels in Europe,” said Chu. In Europe, the price for a gallon of gas consistently hovers around $10 a gallon.
Summary video By Heritage:

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Obama Lies. The U.S. has 60 Times more Oil than Obama Claims

OBAMA’S SELECTIVE DATA When Obama says the U.S. has only 2% of the world’s oil reserves, he is talking about the tip of the oil pyramid — that is, the “proved” oil reserves which refer to oil currently being drilled in existing fields. Obama frequently pushes the myth that oil in the U.S. is scarce, but in reality the U.S. has 60 times more oil than Obama claims. Investor’s Business Daily explains, “The U.S. has 1.4 trillion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to the Institute for Energy Research, enough to meet all U.S. oil needs for about the next 200 years, without any imports.”

Investor’s Business Daily reported:

“With only 2% of the world’s oil reserves, we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices,” [Obama] said. “Not when we consume 20% of the world’s oil.” The claim makes it appear as though the U.S. is an oil-barren nation, perpetually dependent on foreign oil and high prices unless we can cut our own use and develop alternative energy sources like algae. U.S. Awash In Oil But the figure Obama uses — proved oil reserves — vastly undercounts how much oil the U.S. actually contains. In fact, far from being oil-poor, the country is awash in vast quantities — enough to meet all the country’s oil needs for hundreds of years. The U.S. has 22.3 billion barrels of proved reserves, a little less than 2% of the entire world’s proved reserves, according to the Energy Information Administration. But as the EIA explains, proved reserves “are a small subset of recoverable resources,” because they only count oil that companies are currently drilling for in existing fields. When you look at the whole picture, it turns out that there are vast supplies of oil in the U.S., according to various government reports. Among them: At least 86 billion barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf yet to be discovered, according to the government’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. About 24 billion barrels in shale deposits in the lower 48 states, according to EIA. Up to 2 billion barrels of oil in shale deposits in Alaska’s North Slope, says the U.S. Geological Survey. Up to 12 billion barrels in ANWR, according to the USGS. As much as 19 billion barrels in the Utah tar sands, according to the Bureau of Land Management. Then, there’s the massive Green River Formation in Wyoming, which according to the USGS contains a stunning 1.4 trillion barrels of oil shale — a type of oil released from sedimentary rock after it’s heated. A separate Rand Corp. study found that about 800 billion barrels of oil shale in Wyoming and neighboring states is “technically recoverable,” which means it could be extracted using existing technology. That’s more than triple the known reserves in Saudi Arabia. All told, the U.S. has access to 400 billion barrels of crude that could be recovered using existing drilling technologies, according to a 2006 Energy Department report. When you include oil shale, the U.S. has 1.4 trillion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to the Institute for Energy Research, enough to meet all U.S. oil needs for about the next 200 years, without any imports. Read full report here.

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Obama Killing Real Jobs for Green Utopia

As Heritage indicates, Obama has been very busy “blocking energy-related jobs from reliable and affordable energy sources while handing taxpayer money to producers of unreliable and costly alternative energy whose “green jobs” are a fallacy.” Here are just some examples of Obama’s destructive decisions:
● Obama rejected the permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline:
The project would create thousands of jobs, secure energy supply, and lower energy prices: Building the pipeline would bring over 700,000 barrels of oil per day and directly create 20,000 truly shovel-ready jobs. The Canadian Energy Research Institute estimates that current pipeline operations and the addition of the Keystone XL pipeline would create 179,000 American jobs by 2035.
● Obama is delaying drilling in the Gulf by approving only 35% of the plans instead of the historical average 73.4%: the Obama administration is approving just 35 percent of the oil drilling plans for the Gulf of Mexico so far this year. It is also taking an average of 115 days — nearly four months — to secure approval from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. Those numbers are a sharp drop from previous years, well below the historical average 73.4 percent approval rate and 61 days it takes to approve plans. ● Obama is delaying a mineral lease sale in Ohio for oil and gas drilling: In mid-November, the Obama Administration delayed a mineral lease sale in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest for oil and gas drilling. Apart for providing Americans access to affordable energy, the project could have had a tremendous impact in the state, including the creation of an estimated 200,000 jobs, an overall wage and personal-income boost of $12 billion by 2015, and a billion-dollar boon to Ohio landowners, schools, businesses, and communities. ● Obama gave a $535 million taxpayer-funded loan guarantee to Solyndra, the solar power company that went bankrupt last summer, leaving about 1,100 people out of work. ● Obama’s other Solyndras: 12 clean energy companies are having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance. ● Obama pushed for oil drilling in Brazil. ● Obama spent $1.6 Billion on Chinese wind turbines & $2 Billion on Brazilian oil. ● Under Obama, oil and gas production on federal lands is down 40%.

FLASHBACK: Obama on High Gas Prices: ‘I Would Have Preferred a Gradual Adjustment’ (Video, Transcript)

OBAMA 2008 WANTED HIGH GAS PRICES During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Obama commented on the gas crisis and indicated he preferred higher gas prices. Well, I guess he is happy now. CNBC interview with then-Presidential-Candidate Senator Barack Obama. (June 10, 2008)

Another video

TRANSCRIPT:
	HARWOOD: As difficult as this is for consumers right now, is, in fact, high gas prices what we need to let the market work, a line incentive so that we do shift to alternative means of energy? Sen. OBAMA: Well, I think that we have been slow to move in a better direction when it comes to energy usage. And the president, frankly, hasn’t had an energy policy. And as a consequence, we’ve been consuming energy as if it’s infinite. We now know that our demand is badly outstripping supply with China and India growing as rapidly as they are. So… HARWOOD: So could these high prices help us? Sen. OBAMA: I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing. But if we take some steps right now to help people make the adjustment, first of all by putting more money into their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more quickly, particularly US automakers, then I think ultimately, we can come out of this stronger and have a more efficient energy policy than we do right now.

OBAMA 2008: HIS PLAN MAKES ELECTRICITY RATES SKYROCKET In 2008, then-candidate Obama said, “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” (Hat tip: HotAirPundit)

Video. Partial transcript.

OBAMA-QUIXOTE Obama’s Reckless, Quixotic Fantasies are killing us:
	At what point do environmentalist liberals become accountable for the results of their policies instead of their allegedly good intentions? Why isn’t President Obama held accountable for his ideologically based interference with lower oil prices? [...] Research has shown, for example, that if the United States were to adopt the Draconian cap-and-trade policies urged by the administration, it could cause a loss in gross domestic product of $9.4 trillion by 2035 and increase each family of four’s share of the national debt by $115,000. Never mind that the policies would have a trivial impact on future concentrations of greenhouse gases and have no meaningful impact on global temperatures, even by 2100. [...] The Heritage Foundation argues that Obama’s policies are indeed making gas prices higher. This week, the price of a barrel of crude oil surpassed $100 for the first time since September 2008. Heritage acknowledges that Middle East turmoil has had an impact, but long before this chaos, experts were predicting $4-a-gallon prices by the summer and $5-a-gallon gas by 2012 because of “increased oil demand worldwide.” So what’s the obvious solution? Well, increasing domestic oil production comes to mind. But the administration has done just the opposite — to the direct detriment of the American people. Both Chu and White House press secretary Jay Carney have insisted that the remedy is to develop alternative energy sources to decrease our dependency on foreign oil. That’s just peachy in theory and something to continue to explore for the long run. But in the short run, it is a reckless, quixotic fantasy — a tilting at windmills. Windmills, incidentally, are not the answer. Heritage experts argue that wind and solar energy sources are miniscule and “entirely irrelevant to gasoline supply in the transportation sector.” The administration’s other alternative sources of energy, such as corn and electric cars, “won’t help a bit.” Corn-based ethanol produces less energy than gasoline, “contributes to food price increases, costs taxpayers $4 billion to produce 2 percent of the total gasoline supply, and has dubious environmental effects.” Electric cars are “prohibitively costly and environmentally suspect.” Wake up, folks. Regardless of Obama’s intentions, his energy policies are, at best, grossly negligent and irrefutably damaging to Americans and our economy.

FACTS: WHY VOTE AGAINST CAP & TRADE (HR2454)

LATEST: The bill passed the House, but the fight is not over…. NEXT STEP: Senate to vote…start calling your Senators with FACTS TO OPPOSE

HOUSE’S BILL INFO: HR2454, related H.R. 2998 THE AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY AND SECURITY ACT OF 2009 OFFICIAL TITLE: (Trojan Horse) To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution & transition to a clean energy economy SPONSORS: Rep. Henry Waxman, Rep. Edward J.Markey FINAL VOTE: Passed 219-212, ROLL CALL: Traitors who voted ‘YES’:
● 211 DEMOCRATS ● 8 REPUBLICANS: Mary Bono Mack (CA): 202-225-5330, Michael N. Castle (DE): 202-225-4165, Mark Kirk (IL): 202-225-4835, Leonard Lance (NJ): 202-225-5361, Frank LoBiondo (NJ): 202-225-6572, John McHugh (NY): 202-225-4611, David Reichart (WA): 202-225-7761, Chris Smith (NJ): 202-225-3765 ● 3 COWARDS who did not have enough cojones to vote: Jeff Flake (R-AZ): 202-225-2635, John Sullivan (R-OK): 202-225-2211, Alcee Hastings (D-FL): 202-225-1313	GOP turncoats
CONTACT INFO: Call Congress, legislator contact info, Representatives by State, here, Elected Officials, House Directory VOTE CHRONOLOGY: Liveblogging, On the House Floor on 6/26/2009, Pre-vote count, 300 pages added to ‘Climate Bill’ at 3:09AM

REASONS TO OPPOSE CAP & TRADE:
● IT WILL BE THE LARGEST TAXATION IN U.S. HISTORY (WSJ, Gateway)
● IT WILL RAISE ENERGY TAX & THUS RAISE ALL PRICES -It is an energy tax in disguise that by 2035 will raise: (Heritage, CBO) -Electricity prices by 90 percent -Gasoline prices by 58 percent -Home heating oil by 56 percent -Natural gas prices by 55 percent	OBAMA SAID: “CAP & TRADE WILL CAUSE ELECTRICITY RATES TO SKYROCKET !!”
-Energy is at the center of our economy, everybody needs it. So, raising energy costs will raise prices across the board -High energy prices will hit American industry & American consumers -Raising prices will hurt senior citizens, the poor, and the unemployed the worst -It will make you choose among energy, groceries, clothing, etc. -It will cost American families nearly $3,000 a year (bet you this will be more) -It’s in effect a hidden regressive tax -The poor are hit hardest with what is in effect a hidden regressive tax -Leaves taxpayers at the whim of government to redistribute income rather than letting taxpayer keep their hard earned dollars
● IT DOESN’T HELP THE ENVIRONMENT: -The maximum drop to the earth’s temperature might be no more than 0.07 degrees Celsius by the year 2050.  -This decrease is so negligible that we cannot even estimate the absolute mean surface temperature of the earth within 0.07.  -It provides incentives to emit MORE carbon, not less.  It will turn carbon emissions into commodities that can be bought & sold -In Europe carbon emissions have gone up despite the EU’s cap and trade of 2005. -EPA doesn’t want you to see this report ● IT DOESN’T WORK WHERE IT HAS BEEN TRIED:   -EU’s carbon emission levels have risen despite their 2005 cap and trade system  -12 of the 15 EU nations participating in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (greenhouse gas reduction) failed to meet their reduction targets -EU emissions rose 2.1 % between 2000 – 2004.  But the U.S. only 1.3% without cap & trade system -EU is moving away this regulations because the taxing did nothing for the environment -Australia efforts are failing as well ● IT WILL COST AMERICANS JOBS:  -The energy costs will rise, so U.S. businesses will:  (1) produce less (which hurts jobs as companies would have to compensate for a drop in production), or (2) buy carbon allowances to keep production up (threaten jobs as companies would have to devote more internal resources to allowances) -About 1.2 million to 2.3 million jobs would be lost under a cap and trade scheme -It will outsource manufacturing jobs and hurt free trade (other countries like Mexico do not have cap & trade regulations) -It failed in Spain: It costed 2.2 regular job for every “green job” created with government money in Spain over the last eight years. 1 in 10 of the newly created green jobs became a permanent job. ● IT THREATENS TO PUT THE U.S. AT A COMPETITIVE DISADVANTAGE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES: -Though the E.U. and the United States may be buying into cap and trade, China and India and Mexico (countries without cap and trade) are more than willing to pick up the U.S. slack and bolster their already robust manufacturing sectors. ● IT PREVENTS MARKET FORCES FROM WORKING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:  -Major energy companies such as ExxonMobil and Shell have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in technologies that capture and store carbon as well as lower carbon alternative energy sources.  A cap and trade system however, sets up perverse incentives that will distract these and other companies from market-based solutions to curb carbon output.  Resources instead will be funneled to the artificial market for carbon allowances that cap and trade sets up. -What will happen next if cap-and-tax passes? ● IT OPENS THE DOOR TO MASSIVE FRAUD & CORRUPTION: -Britain’s biggest polluting companies are abusing a European emissions trading scheme (ETS) designed to tackle global warming by cashing in their carbon credits in order to bolster ailing balance sheets.”  -Enron’s support for a cap and trade scheme that would allow them to dominate this new, made-up market for carbon. ● IT THREATENS TO BUST THE FEDERAL BUDGET:  -It adds undue pressure on our fragile budget & sink us deeper into recession (remember the failed “stimulus” and “bailouts”?) -Government will also be affected with the same challenges of higher energy costs that consumers do (CBO) -The fall in production would lead to a loss of federal government tax revenues. ● IT WILL GIVE GOVERNMENT MORE POWER TO CONTROL OUR LIVES -It will impose 397 new federal regulations and 1060 new mandates. (Ht: Graph) -Government will control who will get the carbon credits

● IT IS BASED ON THE HOAX OF MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING: -Global Warming: 31,000 Scientists Reject It -Global Warming Is Less Than 1% -The Comprehensive Link List Disproving Man-Made Global Warming -CO2 is not a pollutant, we exhale it!!!!	THE GREEN REVOLUTION -Not all green is good for you
● IT SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT: -Extremist environmentalists believe such proposals don’t go far enough and are willing only to endorse them as “a good first step.” -They will force for more draconian regulations in the future. Once you open the door….
● EPA DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW: CEI reports: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suppressed an internal study critical on their climate science. Internal EPA emails “indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.  The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.  New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations, though solar cycles may play a role as well, and that reliable satellite data undercut the likelihood of endangerment from greenhouse gases. All of this demonstrates EPA should independently analyze the science, rather than just adopt the conclusions of outside organizations.”  - Video: EPA dissenter Alan Carlin speaks - The climate change e-mails EPA doesn’t want you to see - EPA plays hide and seek; suppressed report revealed - Cap-and-tax job loss chart of the day; Plus: A Senate reading assignment

 

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Nationwide protest against socialized medicine & cap-and-tax
Why Cap & Trade is wrong
Reasons to oppose Cap & Trade
The Cap and Tax Fiction
Melt the phones: Cap-and-tax target list
Energy tax
Waxman-Markey an Energy Tax That Doesn’t Work
Cap and Trade = Predatory Taxation
Cap and trade vote today
It’s Cap & Trade Friday– The BIGGEST LIBERAL TAX In US History
Who Pays for Cap and Trade?