Interesting debate sponsored by the UK Economist last weekend:
Last Saturday, the British magazine The Economist, sponsored a debate on this resolution: “Religion and politics should always be kept separate.” There was an audience of about a thousand, and at the beginning of the debate the vote was about five to one in favor of the resolution. This is Manhattan, after all. At the end of the debate the house was pretty evenly divided but still with a slight majority in favor.
Read on. This would be a great idea for Virginia newspapers to emulate… and maybe even repeat the speeches, post the debate online, and discuss the results.
The fascinating part is that the debate took place in Manhattan. Not exactly the epicenter of conservative thought.