It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.