Today’s Reading List – October 3, 2006

Posted by: John Schroeder at 05:52 am, October 3rd 2006 — Comment on this post »

Religion and politics are different things; they may influence each other, but they have decidely different goals. Here's a couple of votes that agree. And here is another that thinks the cross- pollination may be a bit intense.

Doug Wilson profiles Romney. There's that darn question again! Wilson thinks it will disappear in light of Romney's overwhelming positives. I agree unless someone decides to make an issue out of it.

According to Joe Carter, marital status and fertility tell us the most about people's political orientation – married and fertile – Republican; single – Democrat. The mind reels at the Mormon wisecrack possibilities, but I'll leave those up to the Mormon half here.

Lowell: Well, Utah is the reddest state in the union . . . last time I checked, the birth rate there was rivaled only by that of India. We take that "multiply and replenish" notion pretty seriously, I guess. And we loooove babies!

Romney wins this one going away. But then, it's just another pundit pontificating.

Catholics backing Romney? Now, when it comes to Evangelicals, some branches of which remain fairly anti-Catholic, is this good news, or bad news?

Lowell: There does seem to be a modern-day kinship or alliance between Mormons and Catholics. This is ironic on two levels: First, in former times, some Mormons were prone to call Catholicism "the church of the devil." (Thankfully, we're beyond that now, in my experience.) Second, Catholics and Mormons are more often than not allies on moral issues in the public square. In 2000 , for example, California's Council of Catholic Bishops, worked closely with the CJCLDS to help pass Proposition 22, supporting traditional marriage against same-sex marriage. that's the kind of active alliance that I think Mormons and evangelicals might form.