The
Christian Science Monitor reported last week that Fox News commentator Glenn Beck is accusing President Obama of not being a true Christian, but instead of believing in Marxist-based "Liberation Theology". The issue was raised by reporters at yesterday's White House press briefing (
full text) in this exchange with press secretary Robert Gibbs:
Q Robert, for the last four days, Glenn Beck has criticized the President for believing in liberation theology, which he calls a Marxist form of Christianity. I’ve got two questions. One, does the President, to your knowledge, even know what liberation theology is?
MR. GIBBS: I don’t know the answer to that. I will say this, Bill, a crude paraphrasing of an old quote, and that is people are entitled to their own opinion, as ill-informed as it may be, but they’re not entitled to their own facts. The President is a committed mainstream Christian. I don’t -- I have no evidence that would guide me as to what Glenn Beck would have any genuine knowledge as to what the President does or does not believe.
Q When is he going back to church?
Q So this Marxist form of Christianity --
MR. GIBBS: Again, I can only imagine where Mr. Beck conjured that from.
