sounds like a plan, mominator. i've been known to go a bit overboard with my chili leaving myself fearing the throne.
dg, i think that it's unfortunate that much of the worst of the radical christian idealogy is accepted as being the domain of the republican party. but the gop courted them, knowing that the implications of their decision. i tend to disagree with the conventional wisdom that pat roberston and jimmy dobson are running the white house, but it's clear that their views (even the worst of them) do get a hearing at high levels. i think that faith in a politician is an important quality. that said, i'm not for governing from the bible.
there is a very real need for separation of church and state, for me it's more pragmatic in that i don't want some religions to have power, so therefore it's best that none do. however, i do think that sometimes the separation of church and state morphs into oppression rather than separation.
while the gop is portrayed as the party that panders to religion (and often accurately so), i don't see too many democrats at the national level coming out too forcefully against beliefs that, while anathema around here, are held dear by a great many christians out there. the fact is that there's a lot more belivers in this country than there are non-believers, and not just christians, and no one can seriuously imagine winning a national election without courting them in one way or another. the gop has just done it in a rather ham-handed fashion.
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