Obama to Deliver Values Speech at St. Louis Church Conference
By Jonathan Weisman | Washington Post
ST. LOUIS — After a week touring Republican strongholds, Sen. Barack Obama heads back to familiar turf today, addressing the annual conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church this afternoon with promises that he will make “faith-based” social service “a moral center of my administration.”
“The challenges we face today — war and poverty, joblessness and homelessness, violent streets and crumbling schools — are not simply technical problems in search of a 10-point plan,” he is expected to say before the largely black audience of conference attendees, according to a prepared text of his speech. “They are moral problems, rooted in both societal indifference and individual callousness — in the imperfections of man. And so the values we believe in — empathy and justice and responsibility to ourselves and out neighbors — these cannot only be expressed in our churches and our synagogues, but in our policies and in out laws.”
Of the two presumptive nominees for the White House, Obama, the Democrat, has been far more outspoken about his religious beliefs than has John McCain, the Republican. Conservative evangelical Christians remain skeptical that Obama’s faith comports with their own, however, especially his support for abortion and gay rights.
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