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The question of faith being a private matter looks different from this side of the pond. First, we have an established Church. Second, we have state funded faith schools. Third, we have paid chaplains of a variety of faiths- most, but not all, Christian- in our hospitals and prisons.
The Pope has begun to build bridges with the Islamic world after a disastrous start, but, despite his attempts to build these bridges, it feels as if the hand of friendship is not being stretched out far enough.
In a modern democracy, the State has to have some control over marriage, in that it has taxation and other legal implications. So there can be little doubt about that. The question of gay marriage is different.
Greed is famously thought by some people to be good. In his essay ‘The Virtue of Greed', Walter Williams, an economics professor at George Mason University, maintained that without greed, our current economic and social structures would simply collapse. Many economists agree with him.
What Islam Really Says About Violence, Rights and Other Religions
Gomaa, Fadlallah, Mubarak, Khan, Siddiqi, Ellison, others | On Faith
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