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At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their Church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design. King's birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta.
King delivered his prayer for our country. No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons.
Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. 9/11 was an enormous trauma to our country. The second major source of tension that we need to discuss is the situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab world. That is why we welcome efforts like Saudi Arabian King Abdullah's Interfaith dialogue and Turkey's leadership in the Alliance of Civilizations.
They must be pursued - and they must be defeated. On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap. Part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. And fault lines must be closed among Muslims as well, as the divisions between Sunni and Shia have led to tragic violence, particularly in Iraq.
They know we can do better. I'm hearing from evangelicals who may not agree with progressives on every issue but agree that poverty has no place in a world of plenty; that hate has no place in the hearts of believers; and that we all have to be good stewards of God's creations. It is not up in heaven. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
God bless you.