Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Personal Morality and Public Policy


I just learned that Senator Obama said the following in a 2004 speech:

“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.”

Obama is absolutely right. To argue that one can’t vote one’s conscience on issues is morally and intellectually incoherent — for both politicians and ordinary voters.

But,....If Obama is a Christian, as he claims to be, then how is it that he is able to embrace his “murder on demand” position on Abortion? Could it simply be that "his personal morality" has been bought and paid for by Planned Parenthood?

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