Barak Obama recently made the charge that "...some right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division." 
http://townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ContentGuid=d73099af-bd80-4905-a87d-a8db3a34572f

Let's examine two of what I would consider to be the most contentious issues both to people of faith and to those who are not believers; abortion and homosexuality.  Then we will look at Obama's public stance on these very issues.  It seems that Barak may be trying to woo people of faith to vote for him, hoping that they will not  educate themselves on these important issues and compare his public stance to scripture.

OK...Obama states "...the evangelical leaders have...exploited beliefs...to sow division."  I find this charge laughable!  It is Christians that hold to the tenants of their faith.  It is the left that is seeking to weaken or dismiss the distinction of morals in society.  THAT my friends is sowing division.

Taking drastic measures like demanding that the boy scouts have gay scout leaders, or that students be escorted to the planned parenthood clinics for a taxpayer funded abortion without their parents consent, or that homosexuality simply be taught as a values free sexual alternative, these are the divisive bombs being thrown by the left into the homes of the people of faith, many of whom think it is right to simply "turn the other cheek."

Abortion Barak Obama is clearly pro choice and supports partial birth abortion (infanticide)
http://quiz.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm
Some scriptures that are often cited to back up the claim that life is sacred follow:
Psalm 139:13
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Jer 1:4-5
4 The Lord gave me this message:
5  “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.
Before you were born I set you apart
and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”

Luked 1:41
 41 At the sound of Mary’s greeting, Elizabeth’s child leaped within her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

This is just a quick sampling of a few scriprures that I am aware of dealing with the sanctity of human life and should present a reasonably solid case as to why many Christians oppose abortion.

Homosexuality Barak Obama opposes gay marriage, supports civil unions and gay equality
http://quiz.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Civil_Rights.htm
Another somewhat divisive issue facing our culture is that of homosexuality.

Lev 18:22
22 “Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.

Lev 20:13
13 “If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act.

Rom 1:24-27
24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. 26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.

Forgiveness is available.  The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin.  Once forgiven, there is no record.

Rom 3:25
25 For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,

Heb 8:12
12  And I will forgive their wickedness,
and I will never again remember their sins.”

As for Obama, he has made his positions known quite publicly.  As stated above, it is not the people of faith that are dividing, but the left that is trying to undermine the moral foundation of our society by trying to compromise a moral position.  Can you be partly pregnant?  Is abortion wrong some of the time?  Is murder OK "some of the time"? 

The tradition of marriage is centuries old and society has agreed that it has centered around the rearing of children.  Only a man and a woman are able to "produce" a child.  Two men and/or two women are incapable of producing children.  For this reason, there can be NO SUCH THING AS GAY MARRIAGE.  It simply cannot exist,  You may WANT it to exist.  Much like a square wheel...wanting it does not make it so.  It is the left that is divisively trying to divide this centuries old tradition...NOT people of faith.  It is the left that are bigots...hatefully calling people of faith...hatemongers.  HELLO!

Bless you,

Sherlock