In Sunday's WaPo Melanie Scarborough offers some thoughts on Gubanatorial Candidate Time Kaine (D-VA) As the only state other than New Jersey that will elect a governor this year, Virginia is being watched by the nation's politicians and pundits as a testing ground for Democrats' latest strategy: courting Republican voters by embracing religion while assuring Democrats that such convictions don't matter. This is a peculiar position, as the gubernatorial candidacy of Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine (D) demonstrates.
For instance, Kaine says that his Catholic faith leads him to oppose both abortion and the death penalty but that he would not, as governor, try to thwart either practice. Why not?
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Either Kaine's beliefs are not strongly held, or he is being disingenuous. If the latter, Virginians have been down this road before.
My own, somewhat cynical and pre-judging, view is that, if Democrats would improve their use of religious language by attending church regularly.
I wonder what the folks at GetReligion will think of this as a piece of religious journalism?
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