Easter Week, and Religion Is Big News!
So, let’s read about it a bit.
The WSJ Responds to the Newsweek piece:
The Christian right has certainly stirred up an angry reaction to its attempt to marry religion to political power. But it would be a mistake to regard this reaction as evidence that America is losing its religion.
But then Meacham said that too, although without the good statistics. That Newsweek headline writer does know how to sell magazines, if not tell you what you are reading about.
Court decisions, religion, and morality:
Lost from view is the true ground of our common public morality: reasoned judgment about the natures of things and the good of human persons, families, and communities. About such matters, religion can be instructive (to say the least), while a mere desire to “affirm” our “relationships” cannot be. And so, in both its reductive approach to religion and its empty invocations of feelings, the Iowa Supreme Court has done an injustice to religion, to the possibility of lawful public morality, and–yes–to our relationships themselves.
OUCH – that’s gonna leave a mark.
Romney speaks about what’s next, what’s to come in 2012 and about his faith (sort of) – with Chris Cillizza – with Deseret News. One of the many reasons I am excited about the changes in relgious political influence we discussed Monday is because it sets the table for Romney in 2012. As if our regular readers could not figure that one out.
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