[RoosterRedux]

BTW, I would have preferred Johnson keep his faith or religion private. Making it a public matter the way he does distracts attention away from what he is doing on the job.

You don't have to walk around with a placard that says "Jesus Saves" (figure of speech FWIW) to be a devout Christian.

[Sirius Lee]

You don't have to walk around with a placard that says "Jesus Saves" (figure of speech FWIW) to be a devout Christian.

"Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house."

The House is in desperate need of light.

[Liz]

I would have preferred Speaker Johnson keep his faith or religion private.
Making it a public matter distracts attention away from what he is doing on the job.

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But this is the way he thinks........its in his every breath.

The so-called “damning” religious statement he made recently
was an allegory......not a political truism.

We need to accommodate his politics and recognize his
religious allusions are not embedded in his politics.

Just as we accommodate the secular meanderings
of those on Capitol Hill who reject religion.

[Political Junkie Too]

I would have preferred Johnson keep his faith or religion private. Making it a public matter the way he does distracts attention away from what he is doing on the job.

From George Washington's first inaugural address:

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow- citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.

Would you tell George Washington to keep his faith private, too?

-PJ

[Veto!]

Keeping his faith private would be better. Separation of church and state.