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Thread #116205   Message #2496331
Posted By: Amos
17-Nov-08 - 10:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Priest bars Obama Supporters from Communion
Subject: RE: BS: Priest bars Obama Supporters from Communio
I would add that President-Elect Obama discusses this issue in depth in The Audacity of Hope as a problem we are all engaged with. And he makes a good point -- it is absurd for progressives or unbelievers to demand that people of faith leave their moral codes at the gate; law is itself a codification of morality. But what we do require is the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal rather than religion-specific concerns; that their proposals must be subject to argument, and amenable to reason.

I think that sums it up nicely.


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