Tim Russett of Meet the Press has his moments. Below you’ll find Senator John Danforth’s interview about a book he’s written titled:  “Faith and Politics: How the Moral Values Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together.”

I haven’t read it, but after reading this interview, I”ll probably pick it up. It’s interesting that Danforth has pegged what many of us “liberals” have said all along. That radical Christianism, fostered and used by the Republican Party as a vote getter has become the great divider in this country.

Catch the interview here via video. You’ll have to suffer through a :30 second commercial, click on Senator Danforth’s picture on the right of the page.

 MR. RUSSERT: You write with real conviction, senator, this is what you say, “When Christians claim special knowledge of God’s truth, when they advance wedge issues, when they divide America between ‘people of faith’ and their ‘enemies,’ Christians become not the means of peace but the cause of conflict.  In that case, Christians are far from being powerless. They are powerful contributors to what has gone wrong in American politics.”