Conservatives Want Separation Of Church And State... For Biden

I keep thinking about an AP story that ran a few days ago. It was about a Nikki Haley attack on President Biden. I'm pleased to say that Haley didn't get most of the media to take this phony attack seriously, but she did get some response from mainstream journalists:

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley took aim Monday night at the Democrat she’d like to face in the November election, calling it “offensive” that President Joe Biden gave “a political speech” at the South Carolina church where nine Black parishioners were slain in a 2015 racist attack.

“For Biden to show up there and give a political speech, it’s offensive in itself,” the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor said during a town hall on Fox News in Des Moines, Iowa.

I agree that if we took separation of chuch and state as seriously as we should, this wouldn't happen. In reality, we tolerate political speeches in churches as long as the preacher or the church doesn't overtly endorse the candidate. Democrats make speeches at (mostly Black) churches. Republicans make speeches at (mostly white evangelical) churches. Haley knows this. She knows that this is a long-standing tradition in America, for better or worse. But on Monday she hoped her audience didn't.

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