
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, January 15, 1994                   TAG: 9401150201
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

GORE PAYS HOMAGE TO RELIGIOUS TRADITION

Vice President Al Gore celebrated National Religious Freedom Day on Friday with a tribute to America's history of tolerance and a solemn reminder that even today "killing in the name of religion goes on all over the world."

He mentioned, among other examples, "the Muslims of Sarajevo being shelled by artillery from the supposedly Christian Serbs."

Gore said that in the United States, "We want people to practice their faith, to use religious insights in a spirit of conciliation in public meetings to illuminate the questions that all our society is asking.

"How do we preserve the family? How do we teach our children to live together? How do we make our cities safe again? How do we allocate our national resources to do the greatest good to the greatest number?," he asked. ". . . These are urgent social and political questions. They should also be religious issues. A dry secularism, devoid of mystery and passion, cannot breathe life into the values of our nation."

by CNB