Word: christiane
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ceremony. And yet, as the campaign progressed, I found him getting under my skin. For he claimed to speak for my religion - and although I might not like what came out of his mouth, I had to admit that some of his views had many adherents within the Christian church...
...argument went something like this: America was founded on the twin principles of God-given liberty and Christian faith. Successive liberal administrations had hijacked the federal government to serve a godless materialism and had thereby steadily chipped away at individual liberty and traditional values. The answer to American renewal was simple: Restore religion generally - and Christianity in particular - to its rightful place at the center of our public and private lives and align the law with religious precepts. In other words, Alan Keyes presented the essential vision of the religious right in this country, shorn of all compromise. Within...
...Obama says he's a Christian, Mr. Keyes would say, and yet he supports a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination...
...Obama says he's a Christian, but he supports the destruction of innocent and sacred life...
...another, that I was running to be a U.S. senator from Illinois and not the minister of Illinois. But even as I answered, I was mindful of Mr. Keyes's implicit accusation - that I remained steeped in doubt, that my faith was adulterated, that I was not a true Christian...