Tuesday, July 04, 2006

In Good Faith - The real meaning of Barack Obama's speech on religion and politics. By Amy Sullivan

In Good Faith - The real meaning of Barack Obama's speech on religion and politics. By Amy Sullivan: "Obama's speech, delivered to an audience of the frustrated religious left, was not a tactical plan for electoral success in November or in 2008. It wasn't a 'We are too religious!' rebuttal to Republicans. It was, for the first time in modern memory, an affirmative statement from a Democrat about 'how to reconcile faith with our modern, pluralistic democracy,' as Obama put it. John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Mario Cuomo in 1984 each gave seminal speeches on faith and Democratic politics, but they were primarily concerned with defining their own faith—Catholicism—in terms of what it was not."

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