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Obama: Closeted Non-Believer?  Posted: Updated:  "Before we get
carried away, let's read our Bibles now," said the young first-
term Senator from Illinois in his speech to Call for Renewal, a
liberal Christian group. "Folks haven't been reading their
Bibles!"  It was June 2006, and it wasn't long before Barack
Obama started to draw the wrath of evangelicals like James
Dobson for the controversial speech. Earlier, he had asked:
Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy?
Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is okay, and
that eating shellfish is an abomination?   Or should we just
stick with the Sermon on the Mount, a passage that is so radical
that it is doubtful that our own Defense Department would
survive its application?  Ever since his presidential campaign,
Obama's religious beliefs have been the focus of constant,
unending speculation. Fox and Friends co-host Steve Doocy has
been obsessed with the fact that Obama