..Just when you thought it was safe for the president to slip back into the pew, he started a whole new round of speculation about what he really believes.

While addressing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last week, Obama began to recite key passages of the Declaration of Independence and slipped up. Or did he?

He enumerated the “certain inalienable rights” part beautifully. He even listed the right to life…The trouble came when Obama omitted who endowed the people with these inalienable rights, “their Creator.”

The White House is trying to tamp down any controversy: The president was merely paraphrasing. “Don’t try to read anything into this” is the administration line.

But it does matter. The Weekly Standard’s Jeffrey Anderson certainly thinks so:

“Only two plausible explanations spring to mind. One is that President Obama isn’t very familiar with the most famous passage in the document that founded this nation; that even when plainly reading from a teleprompter, he wasn’t able to quote it correctly. The other is that President Obama doesn’t subscribe to the Declaration’s rather central claim that our rights come from our ‘Creator’ (also referred to in the Declaration as ‘Nature’s God’ and ‘the Supreme Judge of the World’).

Read More (and view the video of the speech): http://online.worldmag.com/2010/09/21/leaving-out-god/