A tidbit from CBN's interview:[Michael Gerson is] the evangelical Christian who was recently promoted from chief speechwriter to the post of policy and strategic planning adviser.
Source: Washington Post
A pulpit? You mean, like this?This White House wordsmith has also been the target of critics, who say he has infused the President's speeches with too much religious rhetoric.
CBN News: In December 2004, you talked about the idea of God being banished from the public square.
Gerson: My philosophy is that a rigid secularization, which really bans religion ideas from public discourse, is dangerous. It's dangerous because faith has been a source of social justice throughout American history. . . .
CBN News: The President himself has taken a careful balance. He's never spoken from a pulpit?
Gerson: Exactly. We've adopted what we call a principled pluralism. The President is welcoming to all faiths in our common life rather than being sectarian, which is promoting an individual faith -- the role of a church. But it is not the role of the governing authority.
Source: Washington Post
Image: City of Moncton
So, as long as Bush doesn't preach from a pulpit, he hasn't crossed any separation-of-church-and-state or American-secular-law line?
Well... how about this one? Is this Bush speaking from a pulpit? (This photo is from the Washington National Cathedral on September 14, 2001.)
Image: Kein Krieg!
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