{"id":8260,"date":"2003-12-30T00:29:23","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T00:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2003\/12\/still_more_politics_and_religion.html"},"modified":"2003-12-30T00:29:23","modified_gmt":"2003-12-30T00:29:23","slug":"still_more_politics_and_religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2003\/12\/still_more_politics_and_religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Still more politics and religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Wallis of Sojourners had a Sunday op-ed in the NYTimes on putting God back into politics<\/a><\/p>\n

God is always personal, but never private. The Democrats are wrong to restrict religion to the private sphere \u2014 just as the Republicans are wrong to define it solely in terms of individual moral choices and sexual ethics. Allowing the right to decide what is a religious issue would be both a moral and political tragedy.<\/p>\n

Not everyone in America has the same religious values, of course. And many moral lessons are open to interpretation. But by withdrawing into secularism, the Democrats deprive Americans of an important debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And today, the Times prints letters in response.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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