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President Bush Once Said That Marriage Is A Sacred Institution And Should Be Reserved For The Union Of One Man And One Woman. If This Is The Case - And Most Americans Would Agree With Him On This - Then I Have To Ask: Why Is The Government At All Involved In Marrying People?

While A Case Can Be Made For Intelligent Design, I Can't Figure Out Why Some Christians Are So Thrilled About That Possibility. First Of All, It Doesn't Prove There's A God. If Anything, Intelligent Design Lends Support To Some Form Of Pantheism That Defines God As Immanent Within Nature.

So After The Lewinsky Scandal, Everything Changed, And We Moved From Using The Bible To Address The Moral Issues Of Our Time, Which Were Social, To Moral Issues Of Our Time That Were Very Personal. I Have Continued That Relationship Up Until The Present.

Beyond These Models Of Reconciliation, A Theology Of Mysticism Provides Some Hope For Common Ground Between Christianity And Islam. Both Religions Have Within Their Histories Examples Of Ecstatic Union With God, Which Seem At Odds With Their Own Spiritual Traditions But Have Much In Common With Each Other.

I Contend That Bush Would Be A Lot More Moderate If There Weren't Some Fundamentalists Breathing Down His Neck Every Time He Wants To Establish The State Of Israel, Every Time He Wants To Do Justice For The Palestinian People.