President Obama says it would be offensive to our values to save just Syrian Christian refugees. But since when is it un-American to stop genocide?

At a news conference Monday at the summit inAntalya, Turkey, of the Group of 20 major and emerging economic powers, Obama denounced those who say America should “just admit the Christians but not the Muslims” fleeing war-torn Syria. “That’s shameful,” he declared. “That’s not American. That’s not who we are. We don’t have religious tests to our compassion.” MORE