text: Kag, I think Debbie is inelegantly pointing to a distinction between the political sphere and the sphere of faith. For some Christians the distinction is fundamental. It allows them to adopt one set of principles for reflection and conclusions and action (including voting) in the political sphere, and then embrace scripture and faith principles whole heartedly as applicable in the private realm of faith. I, and I assume you, do not agree. For us there is only one moral sphere and both politics and faith are involved. So our faith provides moral guidance that we believe ourselves obliged to follow in the political sphere as well as our private lives.
  
  Both views (Debbie's vs ours [yours, mine, and Father Peter's] are further complicated by Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning, but that is another issue; and therein one finds I think a foundational difference between traditionalists and progressives as subsets of those who embrace Father Peter's perspective over Debbie's.