KEEP CHURCH AND STATE SEPARATE, SOME OF THE TIME
Liberals and progressives go to great lengths to keep church and state separate. Just try to have religious schools share in a voucher or other government program that provides relief to students trapped by the teachers' unions into failing schools. No can do. It violates the separation of church and state.
Just have some poor baker refuse to bake a cake for a gay married couple, and he will be told that he can't impose his religious beliefs on that couple, the law of the land overriding any individual right to obey religious beliefs. Note: this is not a monopoly electric utility denying an essential service to that couple: it is a baker, one of dozens easily available in Colorado and eager for the business of the gay couple which were married, by the way, in Massachusetts, a state unlikely to have as many religious bakers as does Colorado.
But when the President needs support for his climate plan he calls upon the anti-capitalist Pope to rally his religious legions on the side of the American state. No separation allowed. And when the administration wanted to establish relations with a Cuban dictatorship still rounding up dissidents, it looked to Pope Francis for a blessing. And got it, presumably so that capitalist America could ship to the island the goods that would relieve the shortages inflicted on Cubans blessed to live in the Castros' communist economy. Only the deeply cynical would claim that the Pope's moral authority is less coercive than the legal authority of the state. Coercive separation or merger of church and state coercive power - whichever suits the administration's needs.
We are indeed, one nation under God - some of the time.
