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Should be mandated as secular only. There is literally no place in legal American politics for any faith-based bias or nonsense. It's in our Constitution. In essence, the illegal biases so obvious now essentially bars any atheist from ever becoming POTUS. It also ensures we'll always be burdened by unnecessary pious nonsense that infuriates about 50% of the population. Even amongst the claimed-religious, we still have Hindus, Muslims, Wiccans, Mormons, Shintos, Inuit spirit believers, and so on. They do not want to see nor hear overt and obsessive Christian pageantry and/or billboards currently being thrust in their faces.
Some imaginary but mandated "Return to Godly Ways" social culture and associated school curricular changes would culturally ruin this country, and I and many others would a) fight it with our checkbooks, our taxes, our political choices and our true moral superiority or b) we'd all move to Australia and leave the resulting faith-based hell-hole to it's own inevitable demise.
Not only is there too much religion in politics, but it is also unconstitutional.
Some of these politicians need to read up on the part that talks about freedom of religion and Thomas Jefferson's writings on the separation of church and state.
I don't want to hear about religion being brought up in an election year.
Each and every candidate is entitled to his or her religion, or lack of religion. Religious discourse has no place in the political debates and party platform.
Most of the politicians are only speaking to their Christian audience. Unfortunately, you can't vote against them all, so you have to pick the least of the many evils running for office. However, when someone talks about wanting to change laws to favor a religious viewpoint (such as on abortion, gay marriage, etc.), they can be sure they will never got my vote. Government is strictly a secular function. No religion allowed.
Last edited by mensaguy; 03-22-2012 at 09:04 AM..
Reason: Added the last thought.
Most of the politicians are only speaking to their Christian audience. Unfortunately, you can't vote against them all, so you have to pick the least of the many evils running for office. However, when someone talks about wanting to change laws to favor a religious viewpoint (such as on abortion, gay marriage, etc.), they can be sure they will never got my vote. Government is strictly a secular function. No religion allowed.
Abortion- the law was changed to allow abortions.
Gay marriage- those in favor of gay marriage are the ones wanting to change the law, not the other way around.
Gay marriage- those in favor of gay marriage are the ones wanting to change the law, not the other way around.
No the law was overturned by the courts to allow them. The only laws being passed are the one's on the right trying to restrict it. And those gay marriage advocates are working to change laws already passed with a religious nature.
If we got half of what politicians promised
there'd be no need for heaven.
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Here it cometh...
