Bush says he wants to honor the Pope's conviction that, “...there’s right and wrong in life, that moral relativism has a danger of undermining the capacity to have more hopeful and free societies.”
Hmm... let's think about that. Yeah, there's right and wrong, but who says the Pope knows best what they are?
Figuring out what's right and wrong takes careful thinking and discussion about the happiness, suffering, and other possible consequences of an action. Maybe the pope does that. But it seems more like he cherrypicks his definitions of right and wrong out of a self-contradictory body of ancient literature that purports to be revelations from a supernatural being.
So I think that "morals grounded in faith" really means something more like, "arbitrary rules based on personal bias and ancient superstition". Popes, prophets, and presidents might imagine that they have a magic moral guide, but really, common sense and rational ethics are all that any of them, or we, have ever had to decide what's right and wrong.
Don't let them take those things away from you.
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