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...Your "Five Faces of Barack Obama" omitted the face I consider most salient: the wimp. Having backed down on the things he should have stood up for - peace, separation of church and state, the environment - he is now a Republican lite, like John Kerry was. That's not change I can believe in, and I am afraid it will cost him the election. Janet Maker, Los Angeles...
...When he began seeking reelection, Ortega realized he needed to make nice with the conservative church hierarchy, so he reconciled with one of his staunchest opponents from the 1980s, the head of the Nicaraguan Catholic Church, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo. Ortega took communion from Obando y Bravo in 2004, and then asked the cardinal to preside over his marriage to Murillo...
...Moments after encouraging the faithful at her old Pentecostal church to pray for pipeline revenue, she proved her pastor right: “I can do my job [in Anchorage] in developing our natural resources, doing things like getting the roads paved…but really all of that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God. And that’s gonna be your job…to be out there reaching the people and converting the people of Alaska...
...opinion that the original meaning of "separation between church and state" has been distorted...
Separation of church and state didn't mean we should take religion out of government. Thomas Jefferson said we will never have a single religion monopolizing our government. Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with...