Religion now more a part of politics

[Algorem]

Religion now more a part of politics
Talk of faith, values is nearly omnipresent

Ted Wendling and Sandy Theis

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/111313620039460.xml

Columbus- Early Wednesday morning, in a mostly darkened Statehouse, seven friends pulled their chairs up to a coffee table for a candid discussion about God.

At the center of the table sat an el ephant in a snow globe, his trunk raised triumphantly, a reminder that the 7 a.m. Bible-study session was taking place in the office of Republican Sen. Bill Harris, the gentlemanly and unabashedly devout president of the Ohio Senate...

A Bible accompanies Secretary of State Ken Blackwell when he speaks.

Attorney General Jim Petro recently ventured into Blackwell's back yard - Cincinnati - to tap conservative Hamilton County Commissioner Phil Heimlich as his running mate. Heimlich, who was raised a Jew, tours the country giving humorous and uplifting speeches at prayer breakfasts about how he accepted Christ into his life in 1981 while sitting in a Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Grosse Pointe, Mich...

[skip fox]

1. Breaking: Bush claims he was secretly canonized by the late Pope during

his last visit. The ceremony took place in "a secret chanber behind the Pope's living quarters," the President maintained.

Read story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3025241

[VegasWolf]

4. St, Bush the Godly? Patron Saint of Oil? n/t

[libodem]

2. Why are churches tax exempt?

Seems Christianity has become the state religion and there is no separation of church and state. Government is the church and is being preached not from the pulpit but from the Statehouse. TAX THE CHURCHES!!!! All they are is great big corporate entities, anyhow. Why the Catholic and LDS churches alone could continue to finance this beautiful war, they so proudly defend, and love.

[kenny blankenship]

3. You mean: politics now more a part of RELIGION

i think.