Susan b. Lilac Rose points me to this news story in the Washington Post, describing how a liberal religious[,lack of] group, The Mainstream Coalition is visiting evangelical and fundamentalist churches to monitor their political activity.
Tina Kohn, a member from the Unitarian Universalist Association, said "keeping church and state separate is important to her. She doesn't want a few religious denominations defining marriage - or setting other social policy - for everyone."
So is it really that important to the Unitarian Universalist Association, that religious denominations not define marriage? Let's do a little monitoring of the "Religious Left".
Here's a UUA 2004 Action of Immediate Witness, passed at the recent UUA General Assembly, opposing the Federal Marriage Amendment.
Also from the 2004 GA, a panel on Same-Sex Marriage: Finding Our Public Voice.
So, if the UUA is a religious organization, it really ought to reconsider what religious organizations can talk about regarding public policy. For all the ranting and raving about the nefarious tactics of the "religious right", the bottom line is that their opponents on the "religious left" do the exact same things, with one exception. Only one side, represented by The Mainstream Coalition, is telling the other to shut up.
Hi Joel,
I posted this same comment on my blog, but I thought I'd post it on yours, too...
What gets me about the religious left is this...They whine about the "political church", and they act as if they are somehow above politics. However, it's not politics they find so distasteful, but conservative politics. They don't mind their own kind of politics being brought into the church. They are just as guilty of "baptizing" their political views as being "what God really wants" as some right-wingers are.