Portions of the following video are scheduled to appear on the New York Times website — ed.
Has the Democratic Party scrapped its religious outreach program? Should it? Has the White House taken it over? And what of President Obama’s vaunted Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships?
In the latest installment of RD’s collaboration with bloggingheads.tv, associate editor Sarah Posner talks religion and politics with Get Religion’s Mollie Ziegler Hemingway. They don’t exactly agree on the politics of the Democrats’ efforts to reach “people of faith,” and they definitely don’t agree on the question of whether LGBT rights should yield to religious conscience rights.
After a spirited discussion on that question, and on the meaning of conservative documents like the Manhattan Declaration and the National Association of Evangelicals’ recent Theology of Sex, they find agreement on another. Watch it here (divided into sections after the jump):
Have Democrats abandoned faith outreach? (09:51)
The National Association of Evangelicals’ “Theology of Sex” (07:13)
Gay rights vs. religious liberties (11:43)
Obama continues Bush’s discriminatory faith-based initiatives (11:29)
Rand Paul and social conservatives (06:53)
