Article: PUBLIC RELIGION : Not around here, says Ellen Willis.(religion and government)

In a recent article in the Nation ("Freedom from Religion," February 19), Ellen Willis, director of the cultural journalism program at NYU, makes a candid, straightforward, and wrong-headed argument about church and state, religion and culture. Her immediate complaint is Bush II's establishment of a White House Office for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and the bipartisan political support it has received. More appalling, in her view, is the burgeoning emergence (or reemergence) of religion in public life, which gives a basis of support to these faith-based initiatives. She insists not only that the wall separating church and state be impenetrable, but that religion ...

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