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The Audacity of Hope: Faith

By Pirate Nurse Dux — Bitter Woman - May 17th, 2008 at 3:00 pm EDT

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"What our deliberative, pluralistic democracy does demand is tht 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 pas 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 no faith at all." — Barack Obama

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