The Right Isn’t Happy About Bill Keller’s Religious ‘Inquisition’ – National – The Atlantic Wire

Bill Keller, The New York Times outgoing executive editor, stirred the pot this morning with a column raising concerns about the religious allegiances of the Republican presidential candidates. Whether it’s Rick Perry’s affiliation with “Dominionists” or Michele Bachmann’s “literal” interpretation of the Bible, he’d like the candidates to open up about how exactly their religious beliefs will guide their actions in office. “I care a lot if a candidate is going to be a Trojan horse for a sect that believes it has divine instructions on how we should be governed.” Flagging some specific candidates, he notes that “Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum are all affiliated with fervid subsets of evangelical Christianity, which has raised concerns about their respect for the separation of church and state, not to mention the separation of fact and fiction.”