to talk about ken, i'd like to read a passage of scripture out of he class asties, -- book of ecclesiastes chapter 3 it has brought me comfort throughout this trial. it reads: there's a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens. a time to be born and a time to die. a time to plant and a time to uproot. a time to kill and a time to heal. a time to tear down and a time to build up. a time to weep and a time to laugh. a time to mourn and a time to dance. a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them. a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. a time to search and a time to give up. a time to keep and a time to throw away. a time to tear and a time to mend. a time to be silent and a time to speak. a time to love and a time too hate. a time for war and a time for peace. now skipping to verse 14 solomon writes: i know that everything god does will endure forever. nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. god does this so that his people will fear him. ken was a god-fearing man. a man that loved the lord and his family with all his heart.

carefully guarded against every new and successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance religion and government will exist in greater purity without rather than with the aid of government and medicines very first veto as president was against legislation that gave federal funds to an episcopal church to assist the poor and his veto statement madison wrote because the bill vests in the set incorporated church and authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same and authority which being all together support of flow as if the provision is to be the results of pious charity would be a precedent for giving to religious societies as such a legal agency in carrying into effect a public and civil duty in other words support for the poor is a public and civil duty a job for government which should not be doing it through churches. our founding fathers were very clear on this issue despite the recent historical attempts to rewrite the history by those on the right who try to argue that america was f

as the mayor of legislative mechanic toiling away what i hope to be a similar president ecclesiastical calling, i did not get cd ideological impulses far different from mine were poised to capture the party of lincoln. if the american people polled more like iranians or nigerians and europeans are canadians on questions of evolution, scriptural inerrancy, the presence of angels and demons and so forth, it is due to the rise of the religious right, its insertion into the public sphere by the republican party and the consequent normalizing and former reactionary beliefs. all around us now is a prevailing anti-intellectualism and hostility science, politicized religion is the sheet anchor of the tree or a 40-year-old culture wars and that's the end of that passage. i hope the listener does not construe this as a condemnation of religion. it is rather a condemnation of the merger of politics and religion that we've been seeing occurring over the last 30 years, a phenomenon that debases both politics and religion. as i conclude the tab turner, the united states has been fortunate to have a