[Former President Bill] Clinton, speaking at the [Tanenbaum Center’s] awards luncheon, said religion is a problem for both liberals and conservatives in the United States.

“For people in America who are a part of my political tradition, our great sin has often been ignoring religion or denying its power or refusing to engage it because it seemed hostile to us,” he said. “For … the so-called Christian right and its allies, their great sin has been believing they were in full possession of the truth.”