Why we need that divide between church and state.

Digby, having read David Kuo's book, quotes a section where Kuo meets a woman who had served on the peer-review panel for the first Compassion Capital Fund. In comparing notes, she says she rated all non-Christian applications as a zero. The rating was supposed to be faith-neutral but everyone was rating the Christian applications higher.

Digby points out: "This is not to say that only a rightwing Christian would do such a thing. It could be anyone who had a vested interest in the outcome --- which is exactly why people like this woman should not have been making such decisions. But how can you say that committed religious people should not be involved in such things? You can't even ask the question. The only way to deal with this is for religion not to be involved in such things.

Kuo's message is actually very interesting in this regard. He's seen the intersection of politics and Christianity up close and he came away believing that his religion was becoming tainted by politics."

(My bold).