Obama’s Christianity: why it might be sincere, why it might not, and why it might not matter

What to make of Barack Obama’s professed Christianity? My own conclusion is that although there are valid reasons to believe that he might well be a Christian (as religious faith is a complex area with many shades of gray), as well as valid reasons to believe that he might not (that his public declarations about being Christian could be for political reasons only), the best answer may be that it might not matter, given Obama’s determination that when it comes to public policy, religious values must be translated (as he writes in The Audacity of Hope) “into universal, rather than religion-specific, values … subject to argument and amenable to reason.”

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Science and Religion on Gay Marriage

Science has established that homosexuality is based in biology, and is not a “choice”.  Genetics and brain development show that there are definitive differences between homosexual and heterosexual humans. Social science tells us that family stability and a close parent-child relationship are important in any family, and that these are much more important to child [...]

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