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Mintz on Religion in American Life
Citing Scripture in each case, and saying "We are not single-issue voters," Sojourners, an evangelical publication dedicated to the pursuit of social justice, urges citizens to look at every one of the following as "a religious issue" when they cast their ballots in November: "poverty — caring for the poor and vulnerable"; "the environment--caring for God's earth"; "war — and our call to be peacemakers"; "truth-telling"; "human rights — respecting the image of God in every person"; "our response to terrorism"; "a consistent ethic of human life."
Are these religious issues?
Over and over since 1981 if not earlier, the Rev. Pat Robertson has attacked the constitutional principle of separation of church and state. He's called it a myth and "a lie of the left" foisted on us by the ACLU and tyrannical federal judges. He's repeatedly associated it with the "atheist," "communist" Soviet Union, which promised church-state separation in its constitution. But Ralph Reed said something very different in October 1994, while executive director of Robertson's Christian Coalition. "We believe in a separation between church and state that is complete and inviolable," Reed insisted at the National Press Club.
Is separation of church and state a myth and a lie of the left, or is it complete and inviolable?
Product-liability insurers who learn of products that are defective and needlessly unsafe, even lethally, keep it to themselves, neither notifying the appropriate government agency nor warning unsuspecting consumers. This standard industry practice elevates insurer-client confidentiality over such ethical guidance as the Golden Rule. Many times the result has been widespread injury, disease, and death.
Would you ask Congress to compel insurers to disclose product hazards?
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