Why I'm Voting Obama reason #534

I've ganked this commentarry, whole cloth, from vaxjedi, because he said exactly what I would have:
This following clip about the place of religion in America from Barack Obama exemplifies why I support Obama and am genuinely excited about him being president. Even if it's just election rhetoric, the fact that the point is being made is absolutely critical.

Here are some choice quotes:
"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into Universal rather than religion-specific values."

"No matter how religious they may be or not be, people are tired of seeing faith used as a tool of attack."

While some people think this is a secular position, I disagree. This is a truly American position (in the best sense of 'American'), one based off of the fact that the United States is a pluralist society, and that in a pluralist society, every faith matters (even humanism, secularism and atheism), not just one.

And this is a position that is easily born of faith, be it Christian or not.

Watch the video.

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I wonder how well teaching a 1 day thing on pain coping practices for getting body mods would go over.

Hmm.

Yay!

It's the very silly, but somehow satisfying, Livejournal Darkroom Orgy v2.0.

See someone's name, leave a bit of smut. I think I'm on page 9. ;)