Thursday, August 9, 2007

A religion so personal...

In the course of discussing the current Presidential race, Michael Gerson made the following observation about the separation between politics and religious faith:
There is a long tradition of American leaders who believe that religion is so personal it shouldn't even affect their private lives. But this rigid separation between religious conviction and public policy lies outside the main current of American history. Abraham Lincoln's theology, while hardly orthodox, was not his "own private affair." "Nothing stamped with the divine image and likeness," he asserted, "was sent into the world to be trodden on." Martin Luther King Jr. claimed that to find the source of our rights, "it is necessary to move back behind the dim mist of eternity, for they are God-given." [emphasis added]
Michael Gerson - What Matters About Romney's Religion - washingtonpost.com

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