2007-06-13 10:51:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
No. His morals may be different from those of the general population. Suppose a Muslim got into office. Would you want Muslim morals being pushed. You are, I assume, a Christian. How about we elect a Buddhist or Hindu? It is possible. Not likely but for argument sake it could happen. What if the person was an Athiest only claiming to be religious or is given the religion of Episcopal by default because he doesn't state a religious preference?
No. While a president's religious values should guide him/her as in normal life for them to use the office to push it is wrong, wrong, wrong. No one likes another's religion shoved down their throats. Look at the evangelicals how they try that every chance they get. You may be an evangelical and thus see nothing wrong in it. Suppose the president is Mitt Romney. Would you like to be required or have emphasized throughout every aspect of your life sayings from the Book of Mormon? Not that there is anything wrong with it but if one doesn't believe in the Book of Mormon and is not a member of the LDS church it could present some real issues. I am not saying Mr. Romney would do that but am using it only as an example.
2007-06-13 11:24:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if a president (Executive Branch) was pushing religious morals..it would be all debated and subjected to scrutiny of the three branch system of Gov't
Why is secular humanism accepted and heaped upon a public that doesn't agree with it by the Judicial Branch?
2007-06-13 18:23:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is how do you separate religious morals from secular ones.
All politicians make judgements based on values. Those value systems were not formed in a vacuum.
However I do believe that this administration has gone way to far with its using public money to support "Faith Based" organizations.
2007-06-13 18:06:34 · answer #3 · answered by gross d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It is a secular office and the President has no business spouting off religious morals using that office.
2007-06-13 18:07:08 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No the White house shouldn't push religious morals. But it should have it's own, just keep them to their self's.
2007-06-13 18:01:07 · answer #5 · answered by Davweso 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No religion has no place in politics,at least it's not supposed to, but there has always been people pushing to get it there.
Bush got elected by fooling a bunch of Bible slappers in the south into thinking he was "a good Christian man"
2007-06-13 18:49:47 · answer #6 · answered by Old Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't think of any President pushing political morals. That is against the Constitution, and very illegal.
---OOPS! I meant religious morals. SORRY!
2007-06-13 17:54:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
When a president is leading by EXAMPLE, he can be a tremendous force for GOOD. Bush has followed all the rules and except for his LIBERALITY on IMMIGRATION, he has done a good job, despite naysayers in the press who see no good ever done in Iraq, have never seen soldiers thanked by Iraq people, and never seen children admiring US soldiers for their actions in Iraq.
The pictures and the stories are out there...the TRUTH IS OUT THERE!
2007-06-13 17:59:09 · answer #8 · answered by uncle_derk 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nope, but they do it.
I love it that the Courts have ordered the FCC to not enforce f--k and s--t as obscenities because they are not violations of community standards because Bush and Cheney have used them publicly on the record.
2007-06-13 17:58:00 · answer #9 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No he should not - and yet,when it came to funding stem cell research, that's what he did.
2007-06-13 18:00:44 · answer #10 · answered by dryheatdave 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋