Obama is a Protestant Christian whose religious views developed in his adult life. He wrote in The Audacity of Hope that he 'was not raised in a religious household.' He described his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as being detached from religion, yet 'in many ways the most spiritually awakened person ... I have ever known,' and 'a lonely witness for secular humanism'. Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, providing one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries. CBS DC.