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About a man's religion
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Mar 18, 2008 08:19am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By John Brummett
Presidential candidates cannot be held accountable for everything their supporters and associates say and do. And it's very tricky to start judging another man's religion.
But the matter of Barack Obama and his pastor is deeply troubling on a couple of levels.
First there is Obama's electability, or sudden lack thereof.
Now let's move to the second troubling factor, less about politics than religion, thus less comfortable to express.
There are those who say a man can embrace and respect a personal religious leader without agreeing on - or being held fairly accountable for - all the political and cultural pronouncements of that religious leader.
I am acquainted with Jewish people who don't buy all that the rabbi says. I am acquainted with Roman Catholics who differ with the church on defining social issues.
It is apparent, others have said and written, that Obama has a generational gap with this pastor, and has progressed beyond the pastor in his own persona and attitudes.
But, speaking only from my own experience, I simply have a hard time reconciling Obama with his pastor. |
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