Flashpoints USA Episodes on PBS

Hosts Bryant Gumbel and Gwen Ifill visit Philadelphia's Independence Hall to explore religion's role in public life. Topics include civil unions and gay marriage (discussed by New Hampshire Episcopal bishop Eugene Robinson and Rev. Bob Wenz of the National Association of Evangelicals); church-state separation (former Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr); the founders' thoughts on church and state (Yale historian Jon Butler and Joseph Leconte of the American Heritage Foundation); the state of religion in the U.S. (Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete and Rev. Renita Weems); religion and constitutional law (Roy Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court); and religious influences on the Bush White House (Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta and American Cause president Bay Buchanan).