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The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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Andrew Michael Sullivan
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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
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