Don't get me wrong…

…I mean, if I wasn't Jewish, I'd probably be a Unitarian.

Just the same, I have my doubts about this...

A conference geared to help Democrats infuse God into their politics begins tomorrow at All Souls Unitarian Church in [DC] with the unveiling of a "spiritual covenant with America."

The "Spiritual Activism Conference" aims to equip liberals to operate in a political arena where religion has played a more prominent role since 2000, says Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder of the Jewish magazine Tikkun and a chief conference organizer.

Frankly, a conference organized by a Rabbi at a prominent Unitarian church is unlikely to address the real issues Democrats face as a result of a perceived inattention to religion. Democrats do just fine with Jews and Unitarians, thanks, and United Methodists and Congregationalists, too. We do a lot worse with conservative evangelicals, and we're not even on the map for fundamentalists, but it's highly unlikely that the Spiritual Activism Conference will come up with anything to ease their doubts.

Actually, Democratic politics are pretty well infused with God in my experience. As a Democrat whose religion informs, to a degree, his politics, I know that I'm completely unexceptional. We're everywhere, and we're acknowledged and respected in the Party in a variety of ways, though I admit that after sitting through years worth of non-denominational invocations, benedictions, memorial prayers and moments of silence to allow communion with the cosmic muffin I've been acknowledged just about enough. And one "God bless America" after another, capping every speech by, well, pretty much everybody.

We've got pretty much all the God that Constitutional government can stand.

That's the problem with addressing religious questions in a way that might appeal to many evangelical Christians today. They want more God than Constitutional government can stand. The evangelical denominations have become increasingly theocratic, holding the myth of an America created as a Christian nation as stubbornly as the biblical literalists among them reject elementary geography. They would make their interpretation of their preferred translation of their selected scriptures the supreme law of the land. It's the most fundamentally un-American notion that ever wrapped itself in red, white and blue. They are the clearest and most present danger to the Constitution that exists today.

It's not a partisan problem, it's an American problem, one that merits a conference or two of its own.

Hat tip to The Carpetbagger Report.