Religion and politics
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- It has become part of our political culture for candidates to be forced into asserting their religiosity. The creeping emphasis on religion in our political culture, with some candidates openly professing their beliefs on the campaign trail -- at times even hawking them -- is something that should deeply concern all Americans.
- The leaders of a faith have their responsibility and authority in the sphere of their faith, but in the sphere of public, of the public domain, they have no authority.
- Mitt Romney, interview by Tim Russert on Meet the Press, 16 December 2007 (transcript)
- Small grants to non-Christian groups allow Bush and his supporters to speak of faith-based initiatives in pluralistic terms, but they don't change the essentially sectarian nature of "compassionate conservatism."
- Michelle Goldberg, on the The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, 1st ed. (W. W. Norton, 2006), p. 121
- Even DiIulio, the first head of the faith-based office, eventually concluded that the program was meant to help the Bush base, not the poor.
- Michelle Goldberg, on the The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, in Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, 1st ed. (W. W. Norton, 2006), p. 121
- There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatusWhat you've got is everything — and I mean everything — being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.
- John DiIulio, former head of the The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, interview with Esquire reporter Ron Suskind, reported in Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, 1st ed. (W. W. Norton, 2006), p. 121.
- There is one ill that faith-based programs are proven to ameliorate — unemployment among Christian evangelicals. The Christianization of the safety net has created a kind of affirmative action for the born again.
- Michelle Goldberg, on the The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, in Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, 1st ed. (W. W. Norton., 2006), p. 128
