Tuesday on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin pointed out that while the Left digs into the obscure details of Republican politicians' lives, no one is taking even a cursory glance at Rep. Jerry Nadler, D.-N.Y.

"How little reporting is done about Jerry Nadler," Levin said. "No exposés. We don't know anything about his great-grandfather. You know, we know about Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfather, but we don't know anything about Jerry Nadler's grandfather. We don't know anything about his family. Not a word; not a thing."

Levin read an article from Townhall detailing Nadler's "long and disturbing history of supporting and facilitating the release of some of America's deadliest terrorists."

"Now it's funny how all these interviews on CNN and MSNBC, 'Meet the Press,' 'Face the Nation,' 'This Week,' none of this comes up. None of it," Levin said.

Listen:

"That's the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who keeps calling the president of the United States a criminal, while he has worked overtime and feverishly to release convicted, very serious criminals. That's who runs the House Judiciary Committee. He's a real slimeball. He's a really dangerous man. You wouldn't know it looking at him, but that's exactly what he is," Levin said.

Hillary Clinton recently referred to the border crisis, in which adults are crossing the southern border with children, stating, “Jesus didn’t say, ‘Let the children suffer,’” recalling the verse, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” She is not alone; many politicians like to quote Scripture to supposedly chide their opposition into being shamed for their actions or to make a religious case for government action.

The fact that people of faith respond to those who espouse a mixture of faith and politics is a blessing, but it should not be abused. The concepts of religious liberty and of the infamously quoted but incorrectly applied “separation of church and state” are lost. Whether they are irrevocably lost remains to be seen.

Religious liberty means that you have the right to worship as you wish and there will be no law instituted by Congress to stop you or compel you. Even when religious liberty is correctly cited by some in politics, they often still believe there is a “separation of church and state,” which they cite, for instance, when a conservative politician decries abortion. It was alluded to in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists, who had inquired as to why Jefferson didn’t call for national days of fasting and thanksgiving. He explained federalism and the Establishment Clause using the phrase “wall of separation.” That line was taken and used in the Supreme Court decision Everson v. Board of Education by former Ku Klux Klan member Justice Hugo Black, to the delight of progressives who use his interpretation without explanation for political gain.

At the same time, those same political leaders like to use religion to urge the government to act. The idea that anyone can compel government to act based upon a faith interpretation is wrong. Your religion is your business, and government is not a vehicle to spread your religious beliefs.

If Hillary Clinton thinks that Jesus Christ would allow the children breaching our laws and crossing the border, then she should invite them into her home, since that is the call she wants the rest of us to make, through coercion by government.

Ultimately, the concept is one of personal responsibility, and viewed in that light, it becomes clear why political figures who view government as the authority and the ultimate judge prefer to use government to enforce their purported religious beliefs.

Last night’s MSNBC Racism Town Hall had an interesting selection of hosts, including, alongside Chris Hayes and Joy Ann Reid, Al Sharpton. Since the network was presumably aiming to condemn racism, perhaps it should have examined its own hosts first.

Sharpton’s history of incendiary language is certainly worth recalling.

—In 1987, Sharpton helped push the racially-charged Tawana Brawley rape hoax, in which the 15-year-old black girl fabricated claims that she was raped repeatedly by six white men. Sharpton had to pay $65,000 in damages to prosecutor Steven Pagones, one of the men accused of rape, for defamation.

—In his eulogy for Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old boy killed during the Crown Heights riots of 1991, Sharpton referred to the surrounding Jewish community as “diamond merchants” with the "blood of innocent babies" on their hands -- a bigoted attack he refused to apologize for.

—Sharpton contributed rhetoric that incited the fire-bombing at Freddie's Fashion Mart in Harlem in 1995, which destroyed the Jewish-owned store and killed eight. Sharpton, who had called owner of the business Fred Harari a “white interloper,” denied responsibility for the incident.

—In June 2015, when NBC cut ties with Donald Trump for making comments the network deemed racially offensive, the brass did not apply the same standard to Sharpton and his notoriously anti-Semitic comments. Despite continuously low ratings, Sharpton’s show continued to air until September 2015.

Additionally, as CNN analyst James Gagliano pointed out on Twitter Tuesday night, Joy Reid has also shared a handful of politically incorrect comments, in the form of old blog posts for which she later apologized.

Clearly, the issue is not really about whether or not someone is a racist, but whether or not that person will cater to the current political agenda.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article referred to a lawsuit that alleged Al Sharpton was paid to ignore racial discrimination. That suit was dismissed.