I understand that many join the moral and political as one.
Good.
Now do you also understand my point that even those who want to segregate the moral/theological from the political likewise are expressing a religious/moral/theological vantage point? That was one of my points in post #36...so don't remove the context of my reference to seeming hypocrisy...see below for more on that.
(By example: Many atheists often focus just as much on God & theology as a lot of theists do!)
Thank you for your fair and reasoned critique, which this time was without name calling.
OK, you've twice now referenced an objection to my mention of hypocrisy in post #36. What does that double-standard link to in post #36? I said there -- in agreeing with GulfBreeze:
Mariner doesn't want religion to be a point of conflict in November; apparently he doesn't mind if he joins in re: making it a point of conflict in February!
It came across to ME -- as apparently it likewise came across to GulfBreeze -- that you don't mind making this an issue of "conflict" now within the GOP...you only minded this being some potential issue in November.
That came across to both of us as a sort of a double-standard. Do you see my point?
This, coupled with what I mentioned above, seemed double-standard on two fronts: For example, those who object to God being mentioned in a campus graduation speech often wind up focusing on God as much as that speaker does! Likewise, those who focus on politicians mentioning theology wind up discussing theology more (on FREEPER threads, for example) than the phrase or graph mentioned by Santorum...a comment that was probably over in minutes!
It's so ironic that the "let's-keep-religion-out-of-politics" crowd wind up feasting on the religious expressions of others, thereby setting up a sense of "entitlement" that it's "A-OK" for some to focus on morality/theology but not others?