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During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain were invited to Rick Warren's Saddleback Church
for back-to-back conversations about where they stood on issues important to Warren and his conservative
evangelical congregation. "Pastor Rick," as Obama addressed him, asked a question that could have upended the
Obama campaign: "At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?" Obama understood that this question
was about abortion, and his immediate reply was somewhat evasive: "Whether you're looking at it from a theological
perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade."

Considers how Barack Obama managed to cobble together a disparate & seemingly "combustible" coalition of supporters to win the US presidency in 2008. The implications of this for his tenure are considered in terms of how he deals with the social values & policy issues held dear by his various constituencies. Adapted from the source document.

TODAY'S PARTY SYSTEM IS A LONG WAY FROM THE THICK CULTURE OF FAMILY, CHURCH, NEIGHBORHOOD, AND LIFELONG AFFILIATION IT ONCE ENJOYED. THIS IS EVIDENT IN THE CHOICES NOW BEING MADE BY INDIVIDUALS WHO GREW UP IN VERY RELIGIOUS, VERY DEMOCRATIC FAMILIES 40 AND 50 YEARS AGO. ALTHOUGH THE ADULT CHILDREN OF THESE STAUNCH PARENTS HAVE OFTENTIMES GROWN UP TO BE DEMOCRATS THEMSELVES, THEY HAVE BECOME RELUCTANT SUPPORTERS OF THE POLITICAL PARTY THAT THEIR PARENTS SO BELIEVED IN. IN PARTICULAR, ABORTION, THE DEATH PENALTY, CUTS IN SOCIAL WELFARE, AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE ARE ISSUES THAT THE NEXT GENERATION CAN NOT SUPPORT. THE TIME HAS COME, THEREFORE, FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO STOP BEING HELD HOSTAGE TO PRO-CHOICE POLITICS.

Sheed & Ward proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding the contributions to U.S. civic life of the Catholic, Jewish, mainline and evangelical Protestant, African-American, Latino, and Muslim communities in the United States, the two volumes in this series gather selected essays from the Commonweal Colloquia and the joint meetings organized by the Commonweal Foundation and The Faith and Reason Institute, a conservative think tank in Washingto