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Obama: ?We Do Not Consider Ourselves A Christian Nation...?

At a news conference in Turkey several days ago President Obama declared:

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

I agree with the essential truth of this assertion, although Obama?s oddly awkward phrasing (where?s the teleprompter when it?s really needed?) clouds that truth with a demonstrable untruth: contrary to Obama, most Americans do in fact consider the United States to be ?a Christian nation? (71% according to this recent Pew poll).

My problem with Obama?s statement is that he and his party oppose, and miss no opportunity to undermine, a core value that would be at the top of nearly every American?s ?set of values? that bind us together as a nation: the belief that every American has a right to be treated by the state without regard to race, creed, or color.

Full post as published by Discriminations on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).