AUDIO: Senator Danforth on Faith and Politics
A former three-term Republican U.S. senator from Missouri and an ordained Episcopal priest, Danforth brings exceptional insight to the debate about the political use of religion and the separation of church and state.
He worries that Republican courting of the Christian Right is distorting notions of public and private morality. He laments that when Republicans voted to have federal courts overrule the state court in the Terri Schiavo case, violating long-held principles, it allowed the Christian Right to take over the party.
Danforth urges more liberal and moderate Christians to challenge the presumptiveness of the Christian Right to speak for all Christians.
Click on the side bar to listen to the conversation. From State of Belief radio.