It's the same thing with [fetus] stem cell research ...

These things get twisted and spun as "so-and-so is against" ... But what so-and-so is against is tax dollars (federal) funding it.  There's nothing stopping the states from trying to handle it the way they want ... or private funding.

completely agree.

I made the mistake of trying to debate the fool via email, about the dangerous road he wants America to go down and we need only look at what's happening in Europe to learn how foolish communism/socialism are.

His answer (was actually an assistant Bob Francis)

As I think you’ll see, deciding about the role of government for Christians is a complicated endeavor. At Sojourners, we never discount or degrade the needed and vital role of individuals and local churches being the hands and feet of Jesus in their local neighborhoods and cities. But as I think Yonce’s article points out so simply yet clearly, we also see a vital role for government in helping with these issues. As our friends at Bread for World say about hunger issues, while charitable giving on the local level is good, a single vote in Congress can either provide or revoke more food for the poor than all of the country’s church food pantries combined. Charity is good, but we need justice. Hand-outs are needed, but so are equitable structures and systems that don’t hold the poor down. We believe that Christians should acknowledge that we live in a society governed by laws, and those laws are not morally neutral; they often have very decided effects on people, especially poor people. We at Sojo/CTR do not simply want “bigger government,” but we do believe that budgets are moral documents and that the government does play a role in looking out for the well-being of its citizens, especially the most vulnerable. And in America, unlike the Roman Empire of Jesus’ day that you mentioned, we have the fortune – through our votes and our advocacy efforts – to affect our government in our efforts to ensure that they do not trample the heads of the poor in their decisions (see Amos 5).
There are numerous examples of things which need both public and private cooperation. In New Orleans, church groups can volunteer for a week at a time to rebuild homes, but the government rebuilds the levees and provides much of the funding to dig out and rebuild. In education, stable and responsible families go a long way toward increasing good outcomes, but until education is funded in an equitable way for ALL children, many families, even stable ones, find it much more of an uphill battle when their kids’ schools have no resources. And individuals are responsible for working hard, but when millions of Americans work full-time jobs and still live in poverty because minimum wage remained stagnant for 10 years, government is not working for or with the people making good choices. And when millions of kids go uninsured, that is not an issue that individual churches are financially prepared to address, but it IS a time when government can step in with appropriate measures to help make ensure that families who cannot afford skyrocketing costs or whose jobs do not provide such benefits can still take their children to the doctor. And this is also about priorities. If we can build up our military and spend $10 billion per month in Iraq, why do millions live and work in poverty, learn in inequitable schools, work for subpar wages, and have no basic health insurance? Something is askew, and it is government that is in the position to do something about it.
I also encourage you not to buy into the overly-simplistic (and frankly untrue) rhetoric that any government support or safety net whatsoever is socialism or Marxism or somehow automatically deprives people of the need to be personally responsible. Yes, we should learn from Europe and be wise about what “programs” we institute, but I argue that simply lowering all taxes and letting the market run free is hardly a biblical or Christian response to the poor either. (And we shouldn’t kid ourselves that our markets are free anyway). I think you’ll find – upon a closer examination of our work – that we are not simply supporters of “big government.” What we do support is the vital role for government, and we see one of our key roles as calling that government to make decisions that reflect the best of our Christian values. Again, in a country that affords participatory government, we should use that privilege – in conjunction with our work individually and in our churches – to fulfill our responsibility to “the least of these” among us.
I hope this provides some food for thought and addresses some of your concerns.

The guy is a complete socialist progressive along with everyone at Sojourners. Their goal is complete and total christian marxism.