Here is the sum total of the Demcratic platform relative to the concerns of religion.
1. Government can work with religion to overcome social ills as long as the project is open to everyone and if the religion will focus on the problem (such as poverty) and do not use the program as a way to convert people to join a church.
2. People of faith have a right to bring thier ideas into the public square and to voice their concerns, and political leaders have a right to use religious terms when speaking at governmental gatherings.
3. Abortion should be legal and safe but the government should help to make abortions rare via educational programs. Such as the program Hillary Clinton authored for teens.
4. The two canidates feel that they do not know if life starts at conception. Obama said "A woman should not be punished with a baby for having dumb sex". (that was one of his top ten quotes).
5. Islam can be compatible with our society and our ideas of democracy.
6. The theory of evolution and the concept of creationism is compatable.
7. The ideas of morality should be promoted but by using secular terminology instead of with religious references.
8. As a nation we should not claim that God is on our side, but rather we should try to be on His Side. (whatever the heck that means?).
9. Obama said "I am a sinner like everyone else, and we should not expect our leaders to be 100 precent perfect".
10, Clinton has more experience when it comes to faith. She started when she was a little girl. Obama was educated in youth at a Islamic school but did not get interested in religion or in attending church until after he left law school, due to the social programs that his church was involved in. Obama's parents did not take part in organized religion because churches discriminated agenst mixed marrages (back then).
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