Pulpit Fiction

Posted at 2:06 pm on Monday, April 11, 2005, in Uncategorized, and tagged bush.

The Christian Broadcasting Network was recently able to fight the long press lines and receive an exclusive sit-down interview with the Bush administration’s Michael Gerson.

[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 tidbit from CBN’s interview:

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

A pulpit? You mean, like this?

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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