no real war on women. it s all fictitious and all made up and he went on to say he doesn t believe that democrats or the president is waging a war on religion. there s no war on women, war on religion. can we get down to a real argument? is there a war with a supreme court? some people would argue maybe the president would want his comments back that he said earlier last week. as you recall the events last week made it not such a great week with the president with regard to calling the court activists and threatening them about any kind of decision they would come up with. now it s turned into a twitter fight. welcome to 2012. now we have politicians all atwitter. and on saturday, chuck grassley, the guy from iowa, senator. from iowa. that guy, he took to his iphone and he tweeted this. constituents asked why i am not you outraged at preso attack on
church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, commonly known as the mormon church. welcome to all of you. i want to get it right out front. i m doing something you re not supposed to do, mixing politics and religion, and on easter sunday to boot. i wanted to have this conversation because it seems to me, the role of faith in our national life as a national discussion but certainly the role that it plays for our national leader seems overly ripe in this campaign season particularly. that s where i want to start. because the criticism from republican candidates for the presidency, against this administration has really blew down to this issue of whether faith is under fire. listen. i think there is in this country, a war on religion. i think there is a desire to establish a religion in america known as secularism.รง this administration is waging war on religion. if he wins re-election he will wage war on the catholic church the morning after he s
i don t think so. i think religion has been part of the american experience from the beginning. we were in search of gold but also religious liberty. you cannot run for president without a plausible faith story and i think in a nation that is overwhelmingly religious, perhaps more in terms of polls than observance sometimes, i don t think there s a war on religion. i think there s a robust disagreement about a lot of important issues and because religious faith like economics, like partisanship, like geography is an intrinsic part of human experience. there s always going to be a religious component to debates over issues. archbishop, when you have an issue of the role of government in a health care decision like insurance actually funding contraception, you have tension. that s where that criticism came from. what is the nature of this war? do you agree? what we ve seen, the bishops of the united states have seen,
work around the world. if you have a pluralistic democratic society in which religion is respected but not exulted above other forces, that s a pretty good system. that s what we ve come up with. i think we tamper with it at our peril. go ahead, congressman. we need to be, i think, very honest. religion at its very essence requires theological arrogance. because, i mean, we have to declare, this is what i believe and i believe that this is the way. and so what we have to understand is that this nation is united in its diversity and, therefore, even with the arrogance we have to have respect. that s the part that i m concerned about right now. i don t think president obama is it s ludicrous that president obama wants to have a war on religion. it makes no sense. respect, we have to respect our differences.
sunday to boot. i wanted to have this conversation because it seems to me, the role of faith in our national life as a national discussion but certainly the role that it plays for our national leader seems overly ripe in this campaign season particularly. that s where i want to start. because the criticism from republican candidates for the presidency, against this administration has really blew down to this issue of whether faith is under fire. listen. i think there is in this country, a war on religion. i think there is a desire to establish a religion in america known as secularism. this administration is waging war on religion. if he wins re-election he will wage war on the catholic church the morning after he s re-elected. the president has reached a new low in this country s history of oppressing religious freedom that we ve never seen before. jon meacham, play referee here. is this accurate? i don t think so.