On Monday, March 12, the New York Times quoted Khairat el-Shater, a leader in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, as saying that religion "regulates in its entirety, politically, economically and socially; we don't have this separation between religion and government The Muslim Brotherhood is a value-based organization that expresses itself using different politcal, economic, sportive, health-related and social means. You can't take one part from another in this. It isn't how it's done."
what eye thynk: Rick Santorum said recently that reading JFK's speech on the separation of church and state made him want to "throw up". Not the most elegant way of making a point, but it does bring Mr. el-Shater's quote down to the lowest common denominator. Really, substitute Rick Santorum and his Christian faith for Khairat el-Shater and the Muslim Brotherhood in the above paragraph and who could tell the difference?
What seems to be overlooked here is that you can't legislate faith. No law, no matter how well intentioned, is going to turn everyone into a believer. We either believe or we don't. Mr. Santorum's apparent wish to force every US citizen to believe as he does is anethema to everything that makes this country great. And what makes this country great is what gives Mr. Santorum the right to believe as he does.
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