George Weigel was also featured Sunday on a religion roundtable on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos with Tony Campolo, Floyd Flake, and Gary Bauer. Weigel suggested the American people were disturbed with how John Kerry said his most deeply held religious beliefs would be utterly left out of his public policy decisions. He also said the it’s a challenge for the next ten years for the pro-life movement to show it’s the next great civil rights struggle, like the openly religious civil rights movement of the 1960s. It was a rare appearance (Nexis said he’s only been on ABC four times in the last decade or so), but a nice booking for ABC.

For his part, Stephy was a quiet moderator, and his only offense (especially for Ramesh) was quoting from Leon Wieseltier in The New Republic: “The believer lives in the darkness more than he lives in the light. He does not wallow in God’s guidance, he thirsts for it. And when God’s guidance comes, it does not come in the form of policy recommendations, unless he has created God in the image of his desire.” Earth to ABC and Leon: so you think the Bible doesn’t have anything to tell us about how to live or govern? Maybe you should read it sometime.