There's a girl on my floor here at Carleton College. A freshman from South Dakota, very religious and hyper-conservative (she was practically cackling when Tom Daschle went down in flames). Surprisingly enough, we're pretty good friends, though we occasionally clash over religion and politics and the like.
Anyway, I wonder what she thinks about this new ad campaign Democrats are debuting in her home state?
Reality check... separating church and state is still a good idea, despite what the religious right would have you think. If that's "hostility," you can count me in, even as a religious Catholic.
ReplyDeleteI find that response quite eloquent actually, and not at all insulting. As far as LD goes, we debated separation of church and state earlier this year, and the distinction between religious justification and religious laws is a very important one.
ReplyDeleteFar from "shooting you down," I agree with literally everything you said. My point of departure is empirical, in that 1) I don't see Democrats as hostile to religion and 2) I believe that the modern Republican party favors Evangelical Christians at the expense of other religions. To me, the Democratic response to religiously justified policies (judges, abortion, stem cells etc.) isn't so much about hostility towards religion as it is preventing the government from substantively preferencing (establishing) one religion in particular.