MO GOP Candidate: Obama Is Standing In The Way Of Your Salvation
Since the start of his term, President Barack Obama‘s critics have accused him of many things, from being a socialist to not being liberal enough. Ed Martin, Missouri’s Republican congressional candidate, has added another accusation to the list: Obama does not want to give you the choice to find the Lord.
According to TPM, Martin appeared on a conservative radio show, and discussed how the Obama administration and Rep. Russ Carnahan are “trying to interfere with America’s freedom to worship.” Martin, who is running against Carnahan, “said today the growth of government endangers religious freedom and the ‘ultimate freedom … to get your salvation.'”
Martin, in his own words:
One thing I like to say is: America is great, not because of our genetics. We’re great because we created a place and space where people can be free. And they can choose Christ, they can choose to be faithful. They can worship, and they find their way to the Lord. And — or some of them don’t. We sure want them all to, but some of them don’t.
And I think that’s one of the things that we have to be very, very aware of. That the Obama Administration and Congressman Carnahan are doing to us.
Part of that freedom — when you take a government and you impose, and take away all your choices. One of the choices you take away is to find the Lord. And to find your savior.
This kind of view may remind voters of a certain tea party, but Martin says he is “not running to be a Republican in Congress, I’m running to be in Congress.” But some of his stances, such as wanting to repeal health care reform, sound familiar–and Martin does admit that the Tea Party inspires him.
