Garnett on Politics & Religion
Rick Garnett has an op/ed entitled Campaigning from the pulpit: Why not?, over at USA Today. Here’s a taste:
- Religious leaders and activists have always spoken provocatively — and even prophetically — about faith’s implications for citizens, candidates, policies and elections. Not surprisingly, these reminders often prompt criticism and resistance in the pews, the news media and the public square. But we should neither demand nor expect our faith commitments or religious ministers to tell us only what we want to hear, or always to assure us that we and the status quo are doing just fine. What’s more, it should not be the place of government officials or IRS agents to impose and enforce a line between pastors’ stirring sermons and partisan stump speeches.