Please keep this religious and not political.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/...ote/index.html
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...king-stuff-up/
I think Obama has a perfectly fine point. It is no more legitimate to argue on a political level from the bible as it would be to argue directly from the koran or an icelandic saga. These all have one thing in common - appeal to authority. This is to say, it is fine to gather knowledge from authority sources, but another thing to argue directly from them as the source. If the principle from a book is legit, then it should be able to be argued without the book itself - on its own grounds.
I think Dobson is the one here that is confused...
"What the senator is saying there, in essence, is that 'I can't seek to pass legislation, for example, that bans partial-birth abortion, because there are people in the culture who don't see that as a moral issue,' " Dobson said.
"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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