This Week's Show: March 6 -7, 2010 This weekend on State of Belief, does America's foreign policy suffer from a God gap? Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, talks about a new report on religion, diplomacy and global affairs. Plus, Religion Dispatches' Sarah Posner on the Religious Right and the Tea Party. And, a look at the little known history of Jewish basketball players and the NBA.
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The Washington Post/Newsweek On Faith forum this week asked if U.S. foreign policy should get religion? Rev. Gaddy responds in part by saying:
Respecting religion abroad is as critical in U.S. foreign policy as respecting religion domestically; entanglement between any agency of our government and any religious entity at home or abroad is a mistake moving toward a crisis.
Read his entire response here.
On Bill Moyers tonight (2/26/2010) an interesting discussion on the debate over same gender marriage that brought together a well known liberal and conservative.
“We’re not advocating any recognition of a new right. The right to marry is in the Constitution. The Supreme Court’s recognized that over and over again. We’re talking about whether two individuals should be treated equally, under the equal protection clause of the Constitution.”
- Ted Olson
This week on BILL MOYERS JOURNAL (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html)
They battled it out as legal adversaries in 2000 before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. But what’s got these two prominent lawyers – one conservative and one liberal – working together in court now? Theodore Olson, one of the nation’s premier appellate and United States Supreme Court advocates and David Boies, one of the country’s preeminent trial lawyers, argued opposite sides for the fate of the 2000 election but are now teamed up in the fight to overturn California’s Proposition 8 ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage. The unexpected pair discusses why they’ve taken on the hot-button issue – even as some gay rights activists objected – and why they don’t believe that same-sex marriage is a right or left issue.
New York Times contributor Russell Shorto asks – “How Christian Were the Founders?” - in a recent article about the controversy heating up in Texas over Christianity, public schools, and what should be included in text books. Did you read this Sunday’s NYT Magazine cover story? What do you think of the claim that ours is a “Christian nation” and of the Texas State Board of Education’s attempt to make Christianity part of the social studies curriculum?
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