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Originally Posted by cheapseats
Infusing personal faith into public policy runs contrary to the expressed purpose our founding documents.
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Originally Posted by Comicsartist
I take it you don't like Georgie-Boy, then?
It is impossible, well, implausible, for someone who is religious to not make decisions with their beliefs in mind.
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In re-reading the thread, I ALSO balked at that sentence I typed.
Permit me to re-word the thought. A person of whatever faith WILL naturally bring the principles underlying their faith to bear in all the affairs of their lives. Every single thing that a person of faith does or says or thinks or decides is informed and influenced by that to which they are faithful.
It is the very heart of leading by example.
Public policy is another matter. One would like to think that honesty features in every religion, but you cannot legislate honesty. You can legislate penalties for lying, but you can't legislate honesty. I presume we are agreed that it would be inappropriate for a politician to endeavor to interject the tenets of his personal faith into public policy. Religion into politics, bad.
This money scheme is the flip side of the coin...politics into religion.