One wonders, if life and death policy judgments predicated on the point at which the sanctity of human life begins are beyond Barack Obama’s pay grade, what other life and death issues in this morally conflicted world does he consider beyond his capacity? Or, at a minimum, if he considers this judgment too close to call, why not give the benefit of the doubt to protection of the innocent victim in the transaction?
One also wonders how history might have been altered had Abraham Lincoln, in his debates with Stephen Douglas in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scot case, given a similar answer to a question about the most pressing moral question of his time.
We should demand more of the types of penetrating questions posed by Pastor Rick Warren in the Saddleback Church forum, such as: what is Sen. Obama’s position on the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence?
