The Huffington Post website reports today (November 2, 2010) that former U.S. president Jimmy Carter believes there has become an "excessive melding of religion and politics." He warned of the dangers of this trend yesterday during a visit in Salt Lake City, where he was promoting his new book, "White House Diary."
It began, Carter said, with the denomination he called home for more than seven decades -- the Southern Baptist Convention.
"There are pastors openly calling for members to vote a certain way," the 86-year-old ex-president said. "That's a serious breakdown in the principle of separation of church and state," he added.
Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, left the Southern Baptists in 2000, after the denomination's long shift toward conservative politics and new doctrinal statements. The couple, however, remain Baptists and worship at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.
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