The right wing extremists would have everyone believe that the Democratic party is godless and lacks spirituality of any sort. The reality of this Democratic party is that the values and ideals that it espouses are the true values of any religion founded in virtue and good deed.
We often find ourselves in dispute about the varied facets of each religious institution, but underneath it all, as General Clark has made clear time and time again, is that all religions find one characteristic that holds their constituency together, and this is the basic tenet that those who are more fortunate help those who are less fortunate.
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"We've got to stand up for who we are. And as far as faith is concerned, You see.. In Arkansas they're handing out labels saying "I'm a Democrat.. And a Christian". As though, you know, it's an endangered species or something. Look, it doesn't matter to me what a person's religious faith is. I've got a kind of a screwed up religious background anyway. You know, my father was a Jewish lawyer in Chicago. My mother came from Arkansas. She ran away and met this guy, they dated for ten or fifteen years. She wasn't acceptable to his family. Finally when my father turned forty, grandmother Kanne said "Ben", she said, "Just marry anyone." and he married my mother. And, a few years later, she thought she had a tumor.. And it was me! And so, she was thirty-eight when I was born. My father was forty-eight when I was born and he died of a heart attack at fifty-one. We moved back to Arkansas and she didn't tell me anything about my father's heritage. She told me to pick a church. I was four years old and I picked the Emanuel Baptist church because I liked the stained-glass windows.. Its as good a reason as any.. I grew up as a Baptist and she never went to church, and then I went to West Point. I married an Irish Catholic. I converted to Catholicism. We started going to the Protestant church in the military because we thought the sermons were better. And now we go to Second Presbyterian church in Little Rock. So, it doesn't matter to me.
But here's the point. You know, every faith I've ever studied or been associated with, and I've thought a lot about this, they all have one thing in common, which is that if you're more advantaged in life you should help those who are less advantaged. And really there's only one party in America who does that, and that's the Democratic party. We really do.
We are the party of faith. We practice what we preach. We do it. And, so, we don't want to take a second fiddle to the Republicans on Patriotism, National Security or our belief in faith and spirituality and so forth. I mean, we just don't. We've got to stand up for this."
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