Democrat Barack Obama tried Sunday to backtrack comments he made during the Saddleback forum about when life begins. If you remember, the Illinois senator and presidential nominee said making a judgment about when life begins was “above my pay grade.” On Sunday, Obama said that answer was too flip, according to the Associated Press.
“And so, all I meant to communicate was that I don’t presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions,” he said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
In a separate interview, the answer to a similar question came easier for Obama’s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden.
A Roman Catholic, Biden said he accepts his church’s teachings that life begins at conception, but that the issue is personal for him. He said it wouldn’t be right to impose his views on others who are just as religious as he is.
“I’m prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment,” Biden said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.”
I doubt those answers will satisfy their most outraged critics on the issue.
