Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Obama, Church and State

This is from a nice article by the Wall Street Journal's William McGurn called "Obama, Religion and the Public Square".

Here is how he [Obama] put it: "Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King – indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history – were not only motivated by faith but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their 'personal morality' into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition."

Read it all here.

Good for Senator Obama! - DOB

1 Comments:

Blogger Todd Brewer said...

This is a marked departure from John Kerry's rhetoric last campaign season. Good for him indeed, even though he's a "black liberation theologian" ... jk

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