Austin Magruder - Cleric Interview

For my Religion and Politics in America class we were required to interview a cleric and ask them questions based around the relation between religion and politics. One of the questions I asked was "do you believe that polititians are inherintly virtuous people?" his response was quite interesting. He pointed out he had a couple of friends who were congressmen. Both of these men retired after not too long. He said these people ran for office because they wanted to make a difference, but they felt they did not have much impact at all. He stated that political positions often force you to compromise your morals, so it is not necessarily the people that are immoral, but the position forces them to be not as virtuos as the may be. If you are for more strict gun control for example, but you need money from the NRA to get anything done, you will have to compromise. Just thought that interview was good insight into what religious figures think of politics.