By Kim on December 6, 2008
When John Howard’s government announced funding for school chaplains in public schools, then Education Minister Julie Bishop (remember her?) claimed it was all about instilling “values” in the kiddies. Apparently, the fruits of the program have exceeded expectations: GOD has [...]
Posted in Education, Howardia, Religion | Tagged Christianity, church and state, Culture Wars, evangelicals, John Howard, Julie Bishop, public schools, Religion, school chaplains, school education, secularism, values |
By Kim on August 18, 2008
Joan Walsh at Salon asks whether America is “now officially a Christian nation”. She’s thinking of this – Obama’s appearance along with John McCain at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church: One of the candidates for president strolled onto the stage [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Foreign Elections, Industrial Relations, Poverty, Religion, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, church and state, evangelicals, faith and politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John McCain, neoliberal economics, Robert Reich, social democracy, Sociology, theocracy, US election 2004, US election 2008 |
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