A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.
When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.