In the Culture Wars, Who Speaks for God?

Commentary
Inside the First Amendment

By Charles C. Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar

In the combative world of cable news, America’s culture wars are often characterized as pitched battles between ardent religionists on one side and diehard secularists on the other.

Real life, of course, is far more complex. Jim Pouillon, the anti-abortion protester murdered in Michigan earlier this month, was indeed a man of faith. But so apparently was Dr. George Tiller, the…