How Christian are Christian Democrats?
Christian faith doesn t have the same close relationship between Church and state as in Islam, therefore a high degree of intermixing of religion and law or constitution was not expected. However, there were some areas of involvement which were: • Moral issues: esp. related to marriage, divorce and abortion (i.e.: in Ireland) • Control of education: still issue in France where the solution was government funding for private Catholic schools. • Funding of Churches: i.e.: in Germany recognized Churches receive Gov. funding. • Social programmes: i.e.: Church speaking out against Gov. plans to cut benefits or programmes for low-income earners. • Direct constitutional links (sometimes) i.e.: in Britain, King or Queen is the head of the Church of England and must be Protestant.
