<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><U><FONT color=#810081><A href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=449148">http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=449148</A></FONT></U><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121202657_pf.html"></A></DIV>
<DIV class=storytitle id=StoryTitle><STRONG><FONT size=3>Baptist leader speaks out against Obama's pro-death moves</FONT></STRONG>
<DIV class=reporter>Associated Press - 3/14/2009 4:00:00 AM<SPAN style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><A onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" target=_blank><IMG height=16 alt="Bookmark and Share" src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width=125 border=0></A>
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>var addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=reporter><SPAN style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"></SPAN> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV><STORYLEAD><IMG title="Associated Press small" height=15 alt="Associated Press small" hspace=3 src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/ap.gif" width=83 align=left vspace=3 border=0>A Southern Baptist leader who serves on President Barack Obama's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships opposes Obama's move to fund embryonic stem-cell research.</STORYLEAD></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><STORYBODY>Rev. Frank Page, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, says he told the White House that he is alarmed at Obama's "consistent pattern of removing any pro-life protections." Page says he wonders sometimes if the president is really listening to his advice and says he is conscious of being a Baptist and evangelical voice on the president's advisory council.<BR> <BR>"I know that I am representing a huge number of people who are deeply concerned, and as long as I am at the table I have a voice at the table, and I am trying to maintain that and be true to what I feel is a biblically consistent voice," he notes.<BR> <BR><IMG title="Dr. Frank Page" height=113 alt="Dr. Frank Page" hspace=3 src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/FrankPage.jpg" width=91 align=right vspace=3 border=1>But after Page objected last week to the removal of conscience protections for medical providers, he says he got a
letter from the White House. "Promising me in writing that President Obama would never be a part of forcing anyone to perform an abortion against his or her conscience," he points out.<BR> <BR>Page says he disagrees with President Obama's move to federally fund embryonic stem-cell research. "I'm just seeing this consistent pattern of removing any pro-life protection, so I am deeply concerned," he admits. "And I have stated that concern and will continue to state it."</STORYBODY></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Art</FONT></STRONG></DIV></td></tr></table><br>