Kjarhall posted:
Only two of those people ever ran for public office. The rest are irrelevant to the topic. And times were different for those two, no ones going to care about a politician bringing his religion into the conversation when 99% of the population is part of his religion.
Bobvillas posted:
secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause.
secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause.
Only two of those people ever ran for public office. The rest are irrelevant to the topic. And times were different for those two, no ones going to care about a politician bringing his religion into the conversation when 99% of the population is part of his religion.
To say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Moreover, if progressives shed some of these biases, we might recognize some overlapping values that both religious and secular people share when it comes to the moral and material direction of our country.
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