The World According to Greg » Gerald Ford http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:08:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The Other Born-Again President? http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2007/01/the-other-born-again-president/ http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2007/01/the-other-born-again-president/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:36:12 +0000 ghile http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/?p=47 Time has an interesting article on the faith of Gerald Ford and how it may have influenced his decision to pardon Richard Nixon. The article also touches on how Ford refused to discuss, or, in his view, exploit, his faith during the 1976 campaign against Jimmy Carter.

While I think Jerry Ford was a right president at the right time for the country, that he was a very decent and honorable man, and that historians will treat him better than did the journalists of his time, I disagree with his view that faith should not be a part of the public persona of a president or any other political figure. There is a difference between the notion of church and state and the notion of religion and politics. The former you can and should separate; the latter you can’t, and shouldn’t try.

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