Ascension: Amy Sullivan says that the era of the religious left has begun

Washington Monthly, Jan-March, 2008 by Paul Baumann

It seems true that the willingness of the Democrats to talk about their religious faith has not, in fact, alienated the party's secular base. All things considered, however, that is a rather modest claim. Whether a rapprochement between Democrats and religiously inclined voters is likely or will eventually prove as decisive as Sullivan suggests is a much more disputable contention. This is one reader who hopes Sullivan is right, but who remains an agnostic.

Paul Baumann is editor of Commonweal.