My friends and colleagues at The Interfaith Alliance have just put together this short piece, "Pastor in Chief", over at YouTube.
It's really worth the three minutes.
It's a compilation of ten moments where candidates have been asked about their faith in inappropriate ways during this campaign season. I somehow had missed when the Democrats were asked for their favorite Bible verse.
Their timing is apt, especially given Senator Clinton's mocking Senator Obama's inspirational messages this weekend and in light of the almost not to be believed announcement this week that the IRS is investigating the United Church of Christ decision to have Senator Obama as a speaker at last year's general assembly.
We seem to be awfully confused about the role that faith should be playing in this year's campaigns. Thank goodness for folks at Americans United and TIA to help us become clearer. Check out the video.
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:Should We Care About Their Favorite Bible Verse? Uh, no...
Uh, yes. . .
I am going to have to disagree with you in principle here Debra. The religious beliefs, or lack thereof, of politicians are things that people should care about. This is particularly true when a politician may hold to fanatical, harmful and even dangerous religious beliefs. It is similarly true when a politician may hold to fanatical, harmful and even dangerous anti-religious beliefs. . .
As someone who is concerned with human sexuality I would have thought that you might have some reason to care if Leviticus 18:22 and/or Leviticus 20:10 were amongst a politician's favorite Bible verses. N'est-ce pas?
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