Rep. Harris: Church-State Separation a ‘Lie’

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Date: Sunday, August 27, 2006 MIAMI —  U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie” and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.” The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians are not elected,…

Sarkozy puts faith in France

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December 22, 2007 From combined dispatches. – PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy has broken a French taboo by urging a more active role for religion in public life, but stopped well short of the American-style mix of faith and politics his critics say he wants to copy. A twice-divorced “cultural Catholic,” Mr. Sarkozy used a…