"Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?" Obama asked in the speech. "Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount?
"So before we get carried away, let's read our Bible now," Obama said, to cheers. "Folks haven't been reading their Bible."
He also called Jesus' Sermon on the Mount "a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our Defense Department would survive its application."
"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal rather than religion-specific values," Obama said. "It requires their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason."
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still in mourning about the hillary thing (i'll get over it)... but he really is brilliant.... and the brilliance thing almost gets overshadowed by the fact that he has the balls to be brilliant out loud... g-d forbid.
where does the quote from that last paragraph come from? it seems like something i could use in my comp classes, teaching argument in Mormon Utah ;)
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