What if when (let's pick a test case politician) President Bush was elected, he was the guest of honor at a very large and public religious ceremony in a church, in which clergy delivered long sermons hailing him as a savior sent from God to deliver the nation from evils and then anointed him with oil? What would the media coverage of this event be like? Would it be likely to be anything like this?
The reason I post this, btw, isn't because I want to see the separation-of-church-and-state attack dogs sicced on everybody, but because I can't help thinking that there's a pattern to whom they bark at or don't. The reason I pick Bush is because it seemed to take people a while to stop getting in a tizzy over the fact that he said "God" in his official speeches. Have you been inside the Lincoln Memorial? Also, what people approve of. One of Albert's favorite topics is how people commonly say that the Democrats are right with the Church on one half (or some portion) of the Church's teaching but bad on the other, while the Republicans are good on that one but bad on the other, but this is incorrect, and not because the Republicans are right about everything.
Could you further explain this: "people commonly say that the Democrats are right with the Church on one half (or some portion) of the Church's teaching but bad on the other, while the Republicans are good on that one but bad on the other, but this is incorrect, and not because the Republicans are right about everything."
I don't understand the correct way to put this.
Posted by: Neil | January 11, 2007 at 07:11 PM