Obama uses faith to win arguments

But doesn't really adhere to biblical principles.

Life and death issues became the spark igniting the public backlash against Obama’s plans. They arose from concerns over possible death sentences for the ill and elderly should care be rationed and from concerns about tax-payer funded abortions, to name a few. Obama wrapped himself in Scripture to combat opposition to his plans. At one point, he alleged that Obamacare opponents were not just mistaken but also immoral and “bearing false witness” for worrying about taxpayer funding of abortion under his plan.

Obama also has tried to quell faith-based outrage at his liberal policies on human life by deploying prominent Catholics like Nicholas Cafardi and Doug Kmiec to argue on his behalf and by appointing evangelical and embryonic stem cell research proponent Dr. Francis Collins to run the National Institutes of Health.

I don’t mean to question the sincerity of Obama’s faith. This is a discussion of language. Increasingly, it seems as though the president’s deepest belief is in his own ability to disregard his critics’ moral objections by touting abstract religious principles and embracing empty religious symbolism. Obama seems to think that Americans will accept his out-of-the-mainstream views on moral issues as long as he claims those views arise in part from his religious beliefs.