Kmiec’s gospel falls flat at State Department
The State Department has a "rigidly narrow" view of diplomacy that
neglects religion's role in foreign affairs, a prominent ambassador
charged as he announced his resignation in mid-April.
Other
foreign-policy experts have another name for it: Religion Avoidance
Syndrome. And the departure of Douglas Kmiec as ambassador to Malta,
they say, is symptomatic of a long-standing God gap in American foreign
policy.
Kmiec, a Catholic legal scholar who helped shape an
intellectual framework for President Obama's outreach to Catholics
during the 2008 campaign, was slammed in a recent State Department
report for spending too much time writing about religion.
