{"id":4615,"date":"2008-02-04T06:27:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T06:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/religion-should-have-no-place.html"},"modified":"2008-02-04T06:27:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T06:27:03","slug":"religion-should-have-no-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/religion-should-have-no-place.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Religion should have no place in politics or government.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those in the Virginia area might be interested in attending this debate, it sounds like it will be pretty interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Thursday, March 6 at 7:00 PM, the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia will host the third event of the 2007-08 National Discussion and Debate Series &#8211; a debate on the resolution: &#8220;Religion should have no place in politics or government.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe event will take place at The Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Va. It will be produced for broadcast by MacNeil\/Lehrer Productions, and will air on PBS stations (check local listings). It also will be webcast live at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millercenter.org\">http:\/\/www.millercenter.org<\/a>.<br \/>\nMore information, research and materials are online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millercenter.org\/debates\">http:\/\/www.millercenter.org\/debates<\/a>.<br \/>\nWHO:                Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia<br \/>\nWHAT:             National Discussion and Debate Series<br \/>\nResolution: &#8220;Religion should have no place in politics or government.&#8221;<br \/>\nPro:                 Rev. Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for<br \/>\nSeparation of Church and State<br \/>\nJacques Berlinerblau, Associate Professor and Director of the<br \/>\nProgram for Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University<br \/>\nCon:                 Chuck Colson, Founder and Chairman, Prison Fellowship Ministries<br \/>\nBishop Harry Jackson, Jr., Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church<br \/>\nModerator:   Evan Thomas, Assistant Managing Editor, Newsweek<br \/>\nWHEN:              Thursday, March 6, 2008<br \/>\n7:00 PM ET<br \/>\nWHERE:            The Jefferson Hotel<br \/>\n101 W. Franklin St.<br \/>\nRichmond, VA 23220 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The short answer to this question is you can&#8217;t take religion out of politics and government because it&#8217;s impossible to separate faith from action.  You do what you do in light of what you believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those in the Virginia area might be interested in attending this debate, it sounds like it will be pretty interesting: On Thursday, March 6 at 7:00 PM, the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia will host the third event of the 2007-08 National Discussion and Debate Series &#8211; a debate on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2","category-religion-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Religion should have no place in politics or government.&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/religion-should-have-no-place.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Religion should have no place in politics or government.&quot; 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