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March 6, 2023

New York City’s Mayor Takes a Washingtonian View of Religion and Politics

“State is the body. Church is the heart.”

At an interfaith breakfast last week, the New York City mayor Eric Adams courted controversy when he not only endorsed school prayer, but dismissed concerns about the separation of church and state, declaring, “State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies.” The editors of the New York Sun praise his remarks:

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March 6, 2023

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    The “Etruscan nose.”

  2. Secular and Religious Israelis Both Account for the Country’s Demographic Miracle

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  3. New York City’s Mayor Takes a Washingtonian View of Religion and Politics

    “State is the body. Church is the heart.”

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    Megillat Esther and Second Purim.

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