August 17, 2008
McCain, Obama share their views on evil, marriage, abortion at faith forum
by Wayne Slater
The Dallas Morning News
LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- Barack Obama and John McCain offered a sharply different prescription of how faith would inform their presidency during a joint appearance Saturday at a California megachurch.
In a two-hour, nationally televised forum, the presidential candidates made an explicit appeal to values voters on the issues of poverty, AIDS, abortion and human rights.
Mr. Obama said the biblical injunction to care for the disenfranchised "applies to poverty, it applies to racism and sexism, it applies to not thinking about providing ladders of opportunity for people."
Mr. McCain recalled how his religious faith sustained him in the face of torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
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