Kirsten Powers – Fox News analyst and Democrat – errs on the side of Hugh Hewitt, right wing talk show host and Republican shill. The issue: religious fundamentalism. As I discussed earlier, Powers appears to see this widespread persecution of the religious that isn’t actually happening (that the illustration of her point is a few writings on Huffington Post proves to me how shaky the ground she’s standing on is in an age where the previous attorney general considered his God as the absolute law instead of the constitution he swore an oath to).
It is a common criticism today that if you divine your truth from the Bible, that is unacceptable. But if you divine your truth from your own internal dialogue or from talking to friends or from a philosophy other than that which is found in the Bible, then that truth is okay.
Nobody cares where your truth comes from. The issue here is – how far does your truth get to impose on me? Even if I believe exactly what you do, you’ve got no right to push it on me.
This is the pushback evangelicals in power like the President get. Once you’re in that office, your beliefs form the backbone of your decisions and positions, but in our government you represent all of us no matter the affiliation. That is what the evangelicals who are involved in politics don’t seem to understand. The presidency of the United States is not a papacy.
