Sen. Kerry talks about link between career, faith

[karynnj]

1. I like what I hear here as well - though I hope this does not appear in GD

I think that the need for Democrats, who happen to have strong religious ties, to speak of them comes from today's environment where there is a major effort to define Democrats as Godless and to define faith to be just the very conservative wings of Christianity - and sometimes (if they agree with the conservative Christians) Orthodox Jews.

In the Pepperdine speech, Kerry spoke of speaking about faith - that he had considered private, because otherwise you get defined to be what you aren't. In addition, it is hard to speak of interfaith efforts and to counter the demonetization of Islam without speaking of faith.