I posted my reac­tion on Face­book to for­mer sena­tor, and White House hope­ful, Rick Santorum’s statement/gaffe — depend­ing on how you look at it — about abor­tion and Obama’s posi­tion on life. You can hear the clip from his inter­view with the Chris­t­ian News Ser­vice below.

Well…in case there was any ques­tion whether San­to­rum was attempt­ing to draw a  par­al­lel between abor­tion and civil rights an arti­cle that just posted in Roll Call, should help remove all doubt.

Now, I inter­pret civil rights pretty broadly (while still being able to honor the Civil Rights Move­ments — with caps), and would include the civil rights of Chris­tians to prac­tice freely. Where I draw a line is when any reli­gion attempts to breach the line between affairs of the church and those of the state. Debate all you want about sep­a­ra­tion of church and state means; but, as we were taught in law school, you can­not leg­is­late morality.

I can respect the prac­tice of any reli­gion, so long as it does impose on me. The counter that the “state” is impos­ing on Chris­tians doesn’t fly with me. Pri­mar­ily because that would imply that the gov­ern­ment has an oblig­a­tion to a Chris­tians. The US would have to be a Christian-based repub­lic in order for laws pro­tect­ing a woman’s right to choose to be an impo­si­tion. A lot of folks point to the “found­ing fathers” for sup­port, but a rel­a­tively sim­ple exam­i­na­tion of Wash­ing­ton, Jef­fer­son, Adams, and oth­ers, would reveal they were pretty fer­vent about their desire to keep reli­gion out of the gov­ern­ment. (I under­stand there is a bit of schiz­o­phre­nia about this sub­ject through our country’s history.)

Clearly, I can’t/don’t speak for all, but I think most peo­ple in favor of choice are not PRO abor­tion or ANTI life.

I just find it tragic, though a bit com­i­cal, to see so many fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­tians run­ning around with a wheel-barrel full of guilt and judg­ment to read­ily heap upon oth­ers. Appar­ently all the ink in the Bible about humil­ity and the dan­ger of self-righteousness must have faded from the pages of their bibles.

I debated whether I should post this, because reli­gion and pol­i­tics are very per­sonal issues. After about a few sec­onds of reflec­tions, the debate was over. This is my blog and these are my thoughts. That’s not meant as a thumb in your eye if you don’t agree with me, nor is it a high five if you do. I am sim­ply shar­ing where I come down on this issue. If you feel strongly one way or the other and need to let me know, that’s what the com­ment sec­tion is for. Fire away.