I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we’ve seen so much use of churches and religion for partisan purposes in states like Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania.

We’re picking a Supreme Court justice here, not a Sunday school teacher. President Bush and his allies should be talking about Miers’ knowledge of the Constitution, not the Bible.

Some religious organizations are openly using the hurricane relief efforts to win new converts. If these groups can’t separate their evangelism from their relief work, they should not be eligible for public funding. People displaced...

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

I don’t think the Constitution prohibits the use of this textbook, but I have real doubts about the wisdom of this approach. At this time in America, it’s better to simply talk about religious influences...

This whole contest is just totally inappropriate because of the themes of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . It is simply a retelling of the story of Christ.

This is just another example of the administration trying to create the illusion that it’s in control of something. [President Bush] is winking and nodding to these groups about the rules.

[Liberal religious leaders denounced Justice Sunday at a news conference.] The people who are putting together Justice Sunday seem to be far more interested in power than in justice, … They now control the White...