http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/14/bible-belt-sanders-seeks-common-ground-morality-and-justice
Following an introduction by university president Jerry Falwell Jr., whose father founded the school in 1971, Sen. Sanders immediately acknowledged two broad areas in which his and the student body's views were likely to diverge: "the right of a woman to control her own body" and "gay rights and gay marriage."
With that out of the way, the progressive senator from Vermont then launched into a speech in which he sought common ground with the religious right over issues "of enormous consequence to our country, and in fact, the entire world."
As students of Christian faith, the people in attendance regularly "try to understand the meaning of morality... and try to understand, in this very complicated modern world, what we the words of the Bible means in today's society," he said.
Quoting the Bible—Matthew 7:12 and Amos 5:24—he continued, "in my view, it would be hard for anyone in this room today to make the case that the United States of America... [is] a just society, or anything resembling a just society."
In the U.S., "there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant," Sanders said. "We live...in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, but most Americans don't know that because almost all of that wealth and income is going to the top one percent."
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