Religious doctrine into statutory law
• Wearisome Bedfellows
Former Republican Senator John Danforth says the Republican Party has become the home of religious zealots (no kidddin).
In his article, Mr Danforth - a disappointment to the religious right who would have liked to have seen him, the only ordained minister in the US Senate, gain a leadership role - taps into the sense of disquiet over the erosion of the separation of church and state. ...
"I am and have always been pro-life," he wrote. "But the only explanation for legislators comparing cells in a petri dish to babies in the womb is the extension of religious doctrine into statutory law."