A perfect reason why Obama should be our next President
On Tuesday the conservative evangelical leader Dr. James Dobson attacked Barack Obama for his ‘Call to Renewal’ speech he gave two years ago about religion and politics.
The the speech is truly inspiring and shows that the Democratic candidate from Illinois truly understands that the highest office is about representing all the people, not just the most vocal zealots:
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason.
Just by prompting the attack Dobson proves Obama’s two year old point through wild interpretation of past statements and the Bible itself. Dobson tries to pick and choose the parts of the Bible he thinks Obama is offending… poorly.
In my mind Obama already won the fight two years ago. From the same address:
And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson’s, or Al Sharpton’s? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let’s read our bibles. Folks haven’t been reading their bibles.
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