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Of them much is expected: many liberals fear mixing their religious convictions with their political ones. Not Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.

Publication: Washington Monthly
Publication Date: 01-MAY-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Of them much is expected: many liberals fear mixing their religious convictions with their political ones. Not Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.(Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches Are Mixing God With Politics and Losing Their Way)(Book review)

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Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches Are Mixing God With Politics and Losing Their Way By Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Warner Books, 224 pp.

As Democrats continue their careful dance around the issue of religion's role in policy and politics, it's only fitting that a Kennedy should weigh in on the matter. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, formerly lieutenant governor of Maryland (and eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy), in her new book, Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches Are Mixing God With Politics and Losing Their Way, reminds us that the Democrats weren't always so skittish on religion as they are today. The two most recent Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, were (and are) devout Baptists who have always been unafraid to evoke their faith or use it as a guiding principle in their politics--much as Bobby Kennedy had always done. While John F. Kennedy was careful to put some distance between himself and the Roman Catholic Church during and after his run for the presidency, Bobby never did. Bobby's Catholicism was central to his mission in life, and...

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