You have to admit, from the standpoint of someone whose opinion of the impact of religion on politics sours more every year, this is a virtual jackpot:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and civil rights activist Al Sharpton traded angry, racially charged accusations yesterday, with Romney alleging that Sharpton had uttered “bigoted” comments about Mormonism.
On the campaign trail in Iowa, Romney was asked about Sharpton’s comment during a debate Monday that “those of us who believe in God” will defeat Romney. The former Massachusetts governor told reporters that such a comment “shows that bigotry still exists in some corners.”
Sharpton angrily denied Romney’s charge in a telephone interview yesterday, and he accused Romney of stoking a verbal war with him to gain support among conservatives.
I am so sick and tired of the role of religion in elections and politicvs. The role of religion in our national decision making should be simple- there shouldn’t be one. Religion is for the individual, and God should be celebrated/worshipped in the home, and in the church, and in the heart. Not in the middle of a national campaign, not as the centerpiece of legislation.
At any rate, I am not sure what all the fuss is about, anyway. Given the way Romney has flip-flopped on virtually every issue to try to get himself elected, by November 2008 he will have declared that he is Baptist.
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