Reply #58: Did you even read anything I said, Sterling??? [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

Look, I'm a member of the religious left. Therefore, I understand it -- probably a lot better than people here on DU who express opinions toward religion ranging from disinterest to outright disdain.

The Religious Left will NOT directly enter politics because we believe so fervently in the separation of church and state. Just how many political liberals and progressives believe that we should not shrink away from our core values, religious liberals feel the same way. If we compromised on the separation of church and state, one of the things that we most believe in, then what would be next?

However, the RL can play a meaningful role in all of this by providing the political left with an anchor of values. By the political left championing the values of the RL (hell, it's where most of the political left's values have traditionally been based anyway!), this helps provide an excellent counter to the religious right and the political right. It helps to show that the right wing does not own the "values" mantle, and that the left has some pretty strong values as well.