McCain to make religious freedom a key foreign policy issue
AFP, May, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain vowed in a speech on Wednesday to make freedom of religion a key foreign policy issue if he is elected to the White House in November.
"There is no right more fundamental to a free society than the free practice of religion," he said at Oakland University in the state of Michigan.
"Behind walls of prisons and persecuted before our very eyes in places like China, Iran, Burma, Sudan, North Korea and Saudi Arabia are tens of thousands of people whose only crime is to worship God in their own way."
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He added: "Whether in bilateral negotiations, or in various multinational organizations to which America belongs, I will make respect for the basic principle of religious freedom a priority in international relations."
According to McCain, no society "that denies religious freedom can ever rightly claim to be good in some other ...
