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"But he, desiring to justify himself . . ."

February 2, 2012 -

To invoke the rhetoric of natural law while deliberately refusing to offer the requisite obeisance to the reality of its demands is sophistry.  At today’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama offered remarks that nicely illustrate this phenomenon.  

In speaking about the “values” that motivate his public policy efforts with regard to the poor, the President commented on the travesty of the “unscrupulous” who take “advantage of the most vulnerable among us.”  He rightly points out that such actions constitute a failure to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself” a version of the “Golden Rule [that] is found in every major religion and every set of beliefs - from Hinduism to Islam to Judaism to the writing of Plato.”  

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