Where Does Bush Worship?
In the best blogger tradition, Amy Sullivan has decided to keep pointing out that the famously faith-based President of the United States doesn't seem to go to church very often, and certainly hasn't joined any congregation of believers. Her hope is that somebody on the campaign beat will start watching for signs of Bush's relative interest in expressing solidarity with the Mystical Body of Christ (the term that both Bush's Methodists and his family's Episcopalians apply to the Church), much as they track John Kerry's every approach to the altar rail.
In her latest post on the subject, for The New Republic, Sullivan disposes of all the excuses offered for Bush's disinclination towards community worship, and points out that Republicans are forever citing frequency of church attendance as a key dividing line between the Red State faithful and the Blue State spiritual slackers. Moreover, she rightly suggests the question is relevant because Bush himself has made his faith so central an issue in his presidency, and his campaign.
I'm reminded of a famous quote from a less culturally polarized time in our history, when a reporter asked the wife of Mr. Republican, Senator Robert Taft, where he worshipped on Sunday mornings. She blurted out: "At Burning Tree," naming the congressional golf course.
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