| Bruni writes that Faith should be inspiration, not instructions for governing or a legislative manual." Faith is a serious matter, and an important one, but it's trivialized when it's toted too readily and stridently into the political arena.Faith and government shouldn't be as cozy as they are in this country. Politicians in general, and Republicans in particular, shouldn't genuflect as slavishly as they do, not in public. They're vying to be senators and presidents. They're not auditioning to be ministers and missionaries..And while a creed can rightly be a personal compass, it's wrongly deployed as marching orders or a governing strategy. Politicians' religions -- and I use the plural on purpose, because there's no one religion that gets to trump the others -- should be a source of their strength and of their empathy, not of their agendas..... |
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