What are the biggest moral issues facing America today?
There are several. One is here within our own borders. The fact that we have 37 million people who live every day worrying about taking care of themselves and their family, living in poverty, I think is a huge moral issue. I would say the same thing about the 47 million people who don’t have health care coverage. I think those are the big moral issues here within our borders. But I think there are big moral issues in other parts of the world, too. Global poverty, half the planet living on $2 or less a day. Three billion people. I think this genocide that’s going on in Western Sudan, Darfur, is a huge moral issue. Us continuing to allow kids to be born in Africa with AIDS because their mothers can’t afford $4 medicine is a big moral issue. Does your concern for the poor come mostly from your own background, or does it come from your faith? Both. It comes from both. My own personal experience has been that I came from a very poor background when I was young. But, by the time I was in mid
