Time is running
a clip from Barack Obama's new memoir,
The Audacity of Hope. The excerpt mainly deals with Obama's view of religion as it relates to politics:
"What our deliberative, pluralistic democracy demands is that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals must be subject to argument and amenable to reason. If I am opposed to abortion for religious reasons and seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or invoke God's will and expect that argument to carry the day. If I want others to listen to me, then I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all." [
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posted by Matt Borondy at 10/16/2006 02:54:00 PM 
