church. when i was general secretary of the national council of churches i was frustrated with people like pat robertson and other conservatives that robertson was calling for the assassination of the president of them as a way of they were making outrageous statements so a number of people jimmy carter was well jim wallace of sojourners was was a former senator who was an episcopal priest jack down for it and i all four of us wrote books that were very similar pushing back on the religious right and in my case the book middle church reclaiming the moral values of the faithful majority was pointing out that what the left hasn't done very well is evangelize the middle and if you put the religious spectrum alongside the political spectrum they're very similar those that think about the political right if you look under them you'll see the religious right and so i wanted to speak a word of voice to middle america middle church middle synagogue little mosque many of whom have lost memory about the leadership of dr martin luther king and the blacks and whites and others that work so hard just fifty

of common cause, bob edgar, a former congressman and a former general secretary of the national council of churchs christ in the u.s., thanks for joining me tonight. >> it's great to be with you tonight. >> so what do you think of the thes thesis, are democrats taking the right approach by not mixing religion and politics? and by the way, i get why there's an impulse for it, but it seems the republicans are the only ones who get to claim the define on their side. >> well, i think since the 1970s when i served in congress and the religious right led by jim and tammie baker and the tell advantage lists and other had a similar marriage with ronald reagan and jimmy carter. the other person not to be supported as a christian, i think there has been this unusual marriage between the political right and religious right. i'm a progressive who believes that we ought to have separation of church and state but not separation of people of faith and institutions of government. that's why just two weeks ago i helped organize 11 faith leaders, jewish, christian, roman catholic, protestant, religious, and conser

of the progressive baptist church. i know her as my friend. i love and respect her as the national chaplain of the national council of negro women. please welcome to the podium, for the indication, the reverend, dr. barbara williams scanner. let's give it up for dr. -- rev. skinner. >> let us settle our hearts, and ball before the lord, and let us pray. all lord, our god, who was alone is worthy of adoration and praise, we have come today to acknowledge our love for and dependence upon year. when our world is turning upside down, rocked by natural disasters of earthquakes and hurricanes, and the man-made disasters of assaults on the court, the sick, the elderly, and the children, we have come from the hills from which comes our help, the lord, the maker of heaven and earth. you alone, god, can turn back this coming storm of heroic proportions, and as rising tide of human neglect. when too many seemed to turn back the clock on human and civil rights, remind us that no weapon formed against the hurting will prosper, and the battle is not ours, it is yours. most of all, today, my dad, we have, nearly 50 years after martin luther kin

of the progressive baptist church. i know her as my friend. i love and respect her as the national chaplain of the national council of negro women.ase welcome to the podium, for the indication, the reverend, dr. barbara williams scanner. dr. -- rev.t up for sji. -- skinner. let us settle our hearts, and ball before the lord, and let us pray. all lord, our god, who was alone is worthy of adoration and praise, we have come today to acknowledge our love for and dependence upon year. when our world is turning upside down, rocked by natural disasters of earthquakes and hurricanes, and the man-made disasters of assaults on the court, the sick, the elderly, and the children, we have come from the hills from which comes our help, the lord, the maker of heaven and earth. you alone, god, can turn back this coming storm of heroic proportions, and as rising tide of human neglect. when too many seemed to turn back the clock on human and civil rights, remind us that no weapon formed against the hurting will prosper, and the battle is not ours, it is yours. most of all, today, my dad, we have, nearly 50 years after martin luther king jr. shared