FORT LAUDERDALE, United States (AFP) - Democratic challenger John Kerry turned the Bible against born-again Methodist President George W. Bush, arguing that his policies ran counter to America's moral foundation.
In a major speech on faith and morality, just nine days before the too-close-to-call election, Kerry implied that Bush's social, economic and health policies were immoral, unethical, and by extension un-American.
Quoting from the Bible, Kerry said his faith had taught him that "'whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.'"
"This means we have a moral obligation to one another, to the forgotten, and to those who live in the shadows," he said in an arts center in Broward county.
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