US Senate candidate: Pregnancy from rape can be ‘something that God intended to happen’

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Religion should always be completely separated from politics for that reason; We can't be certain about anything and everyone have different views.

Which is why I agree that this guy should not be a politician in the first place.

Short of barring religious people from public life, I don't see how you can really do that. The political views of the religious will always be influenced by their religious beliefs, whether it's in terms of abortions or welfare policy or whatever.

On the matter of religious authority figures, they could do their work better by simply preaching their message and letting their followers make of it what they will. It's when the various religions have tried to wed their doctrines into immediate political scenarios that we've run into trouble, because whether or not the religious figure honestly believes their faith is one thing, but the politician is out to advance a material agenda, which is necessarily contradictory to spirituality.