Now that Barack Obama has picked Sen. Joseph Biden as his vice-presidential running mate, bloggers are already examining Biden's views on church-state issues and his religious values. America: The National Catholic Weekly today posted a a piece titled Joe Biden's Catholicism. It reports that "Biden is more comfortable than most politicians in talking about how his Catholicism has affected his life and his views."
Melissa Rogers has posted a number of excerpts from Biden statements on ther role of religion in public life. Other have pointed to an excerpt on YouTube of a 2007 Biden interview at the Commonwealth Club of California in which Biden discusses his views on separation of church and state. In it, Biden focuses on a quote from Jon Meacham's American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, And the Making of a Nation: "Religion shapes the life of the nation without strangling it."
