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Obama Lifts Ban on Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

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Charles Johnson3/09/2009 10:57:45 am PDT

re: #440 FurryOldGuyJeans

They are also scrubbing the page clean of any of his political associations, such as Ayer or Wright, except as solitary footnote links at the bottom of the page. The same can not be said of the GWB wiki page.

The Obama wiki page looks like it was written by someone from his administration.

But there is a whole section on Obama’s religious background and Rev. Wright at the page: Barack Obama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Obama is a Christian whose religious views have evolved in his adult life. In The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes that he “was not raised in a religious household.” He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents (whom Obama has specified elsewhere as “non-practicing Methodists and Baptists”) to be detached from religion, yet “in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known.” He describes his father as “raised a Muslim,” but a “confirmed atheist” by the time his parents met, and his stepfather as “a man who saw religion as not particularly useful.” Obama explained how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand “the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change.”[196][197] He was baptized at the Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and was an active member there for two decades.[198][199] Obama resigned from Trinity during the Presidential campaign after controversial statements made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright became public.