Robert's Faith

Since the hearings for Judge Roberts are beginning today, I'm now going to link to a piece written one week ago about how some Senators want to grill Roberts on his religious beliefs.

Post reporter Shailagh Murray says this is the crux of the matter:

The issue for both sides is not so much what Roberts believes is right or wrong. Rather, it is the degree to which he believes religious morality may be permitted to influence public policy. Liberals believe in a firewall between church and state, but as Christian conservatives see it, the Supreme Court should allow elected officials to restrict abortions or permit a Ten Commandments monument to be displayed on public property, if those actions have voter support.

However, if left-liberalism now functions a religion for many on the left, as Stanley Kurtz argues, then do liberals really believe in a "firewall between church and state"? Wouldn't it instead be a firewall between Christianity and state?

So is it true, as Kurtz argues, that "a certain form of liberalism now functions for substantial numbers of its adherents as a religion: an encompassing world-view that answers the big questions about life, dignifies daily exertions with higher significance, and provides a rationale for meaningful collective action”?

I think it is. Certainly, many liberals are not living in the present, but are rather trying to recreate Woodstock, which fits into Kurtz's thesis.