22 August 2008
Getting politics out of religion
A poll suggests that an increasing number of religious people in the US think politics shouldn’t be preached from the pulpit. Well, it’s about time…
According to the poll by the Pew Forum, some 50 per cent of conservative church-goers believe that “houses of worship should not express views on day-to-day political matters”. That’s up from around 30 per cent in 2004. Democrat believers have always been less keen on campaigning from the pulpit.
That’s a small step to getting politics out of religion. Now if we could just get religion out of politics…

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(1) 23 August 2008 at 9:09 pm
Will Rhodes
The day they get rid of religion dictating to politics will be the day God smiles.