Coming soon to a ballot box near you...
August 23, 2005
To Greene, there could hardly be a more appropriate location. He considers his private faith and his public duty inseparable. Greene, the deputy press secretary for a Republican congressman from Florida, signed up for the Statesmanship Institute in part because he felt his Christian ethics were under constant assault from lobbyists offering him free steak dinners, from friends urging him to network over beers.In times like these, precisely what we need is less thought among the political intelligencia.The seminars proved a revelation. In one, Greene learned that ministers ran many of America's earliest schools. He hadn't thought much about education policy before that class. Now he plans to fight for history lessons on the Founding Fathers' faith, science lessons drawn from the Book of Genesis and public school prayer.
"It's one thing to have a [biblically inspired] position on one or two issues," said Greene, 26, who was wearing a wristband printed with the slogan "Jesus Is My Homie." "This class has you look deeper. It gives you an intellectual consistency."
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