The president elect says
This:
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God’s will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.
It’s Obama!
(Sorry)
Is this something Obama really said? A good demonstration of presenting democracy as an object, rather than a process, hence giving fuel for neo-liberals to push for wars to bring their universal values onto uninitiated people, and a misrepresentation of arguments in the abortion debate – as the religious side does actually argue that its a murder, hence a universal no-no..
(the arguments against such a universalism is one of the real issues of democracy, an enabling and opening up process, rather than various sets and sects of restrictions..)
I wonder if there was ever a right-wing capitalist was supported by more left-wing progressives..
My hope is that he’s going to demonstrate that there can be such a thing as a christian secularist.
Classic. I can’t imagine why they didn’t use that as a campaign song. They’d have got the metalhead and slacker vote (such as it is) for sure.