Separation of Church and State is the Law; the Law should be upheld by the Media

CNN, you have crossed the line.



Where do you get off. This is not the Spanish Inquisition.



Just in case you haven’t forgotten, we are a Republic where there is a separation between church and state.



Under the rules of law anyone who was born in this country and is a citizen can run for government: Christian, Jew, Muslim, even atheists.



There is no religious criterion for running for president.



Soledad Obrien sounded like an Inquisitor asking questions that by most measures would been considered very private and personal, the only thing missing was the rack and the iron maiden.



There is a limit to using religion as a sledge hammer to intrude into somewhat’s innermost thoughts and condone it under some religious rubric that seems to bestow this autocratic power upon some zealous amateur; this is undemocratic and should be routinely rejected by all the candidates no matter what they think...or what they believe in... It is simply none of CNN's business...



There are many ways to find out about a candidate.



Putting the candidates into a position where you know they will tell you what you want to hear seems to be one of the least promising.



In the past, we voted in great presidents who did not wear their religions on their sleeve. Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt, Kennedy kept their religion out of it because they understood that as president they were obligated to be president for all of the people. Kennedy was elected in part because he kept his religion separate from government..



In summary, the whole program sounded sophomoric and was conducted by amateurs who think they have the right to dictate how someone believes and I find it reprehensible that CNN who is under license agreement to abide by responsible editorial ethics finds itself the instrument of church elders who want to subject our political candidates to their own less than objective litmus tests which should have nothing to do with the process of electing a president..



We would have been better served to have learned how these candidates would have handled health care, the environment, education, and rebuilding the Middle Class than a spiritual exercise that produced little genuine illumination and was embarrassing to the extreme for its insensitive probing on personal matters that do not belong in the public

arena.



You should be ashamed to use religion as a cudgel to elicit answers that serve as a paliative to those who would like to have every candidate echo their own sentiments.





We have seen what happens when church rule is imposed without the will of the people.



What next?. .



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