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Now & Then

God & Morality in American Politics

Now & Then

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Society & Culture, History, News Commentary

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

How have religion and morality shaped the United States? On this episode of Now & Then, “God & Morality in American Politics,” Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman discuss how politicians and reformers have interacted with faith systems, from Thomas Jefferson’s push for religious liberty, to the 19th-century move for a Christian constitutional amendment, to the rise of the Moral Majority and the religious right. What are the roots of recent calls to bring religion into our government? What are the risks of religious influence in politics? How have presidents protected and rejected faith movements, and what can their choices teach us today?  Join CAFE Insider to listen to “Backstage,” where Heather and Joanne chat each week about the anecdotes and ideas that formed the episode. Head to: www.cafe.com/history For more historical analysis of current events, sign up for the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter, featuring Time Machine, a weekly article that dives into an historical event inspired by each episode of Now & Then: cafe.com/brief  For references & supplemental materials, head to: cafe.com/now-and-then/god-morality-in-american-politics The executive producer is Tamara Sepper. The editorial producer is David Kurlander. The audio producer is Matthew Billy. The Now & Then theme music was composed by Nat Weiner. The Cafe team is Adam Waller, David Tatasciore, Sam Ozer-Staton, Noa Azulai, and Jake Kaplan. Now & Then is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is now and then.

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I'm Heather Cox Richardson, and I'm Joanne Freeman.

1:19.5

Today's topic is prompted by some semi-recent matter in the news, but as you'll hear,

1:26.2

it's going to be a familiar topic that we're going to approach in perhaps a less familiar way.

1:30.6

And the topic is religion in America, but we're not going to explicitly be talking about the

1:37.5

separation of church and state. We're going to be talking about this in a deeper kind of a

1:42.3

manner, and to give you a sense of what I'm talking about very recently, representative Lauren

1:48.3

Obert, called representative Ilhan Omar, a member of the G-Hod squad. I'm not going to go into

1:54.4

great depth on that. I'm not going to actually repeat the entire diet tribe there, but obviously

2:00.0

for a bunch of reasons that attracted a lot of attention, drew a lot of commentary, and still

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