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Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change. You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future.
And right here in the UCC, we're hearing from God about what it means to be a welcoming church that holds on to our Christian witness. And God is still speaking. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork.
A belief that we're all connected as one people. This is where we are right now. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. 9/11 was an enormous trauma to our country.
Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable. That is true genius of this nation. Now Ashley might have made a different choice. I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it. I am emphasizing such investments within my country.
We will all have to make concessions to achieve this. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. They work hard and give back and keep going without complaint.
God bless you.