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I am saying the decorations and such don't matter in the grand scheme of things. I am saying that there are actual dangerous, oppressive acts committed against the idea of church and state.
And many of the groups promoting those larger and more dangerous acts point these smaller violations as justification for why what they are proposing is in fact OK. And they have a valid point.
Sorry, but Mormons comprise a tiny minority of Colorado's population. Sure there's a higher percentage of Mormons in Colorado than there are in New Hampshire, for instance, but there are hardly enough to make a difference in terms of how people vote.
But Utah borders Colorado. I suspect for that reason alone the average person in Colorado has more everyday exposure to Mormons, which might make a difference in how Mormons are perceived there.
Sorry, but Mormons comprise a tiny minority of Colorado's population. Sure there's a higher percentage of Mormons in Colorado than there are in New Hampshire, for instance, but there are hardly enough to make a difference in terms of how people vote.
According to Wiki, the Mormon population of Colorado is 2.82%, putting it in the top 10 (if I counted right). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ch...ited_States%29
The point was not if the Mormon population had an influence on the vote, but whether there was a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment here in regard to Romney's candidacy. There was not.
In the USA, in the year 2015, for most people, Santa Claus isn't a religious figure, no matter how many times you track the history of St. Nicholas to the 3rd or 4th century.
For most religious people as well ? Where do you get this data ?
Find an observant Jewish or Muslim person and ask them if there's no connection between Santa, Christmas and Christianity.
Better else, ask your pastor.. if you have one.
Just because for many Christians today this connection isn't obvious (a sad fact, in my personal opinion ) it doesn't mean this connection doesn't exist, or isn't obvious to people.of other faiths.
This of course doesn't mean that an individual Jewish or Muslim family wouldn't be OK with their kid writing letters to Santa. But this is ther personal choice. They shouldn't be put in position where their small child has to make that choice in a very public manner in front of other children who don't have the same beliefs.
According to Wiki, the Mormon population of Colorado is 2.82%, putting it in the top 10 (if I counted right). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ch...ited_States%29
The point was not if the Mormon population had an influence on the vote, but whether there was a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment here in regard to Romney's candidacy. There was not.
And yet some polls indicated 20% of potential Republican voters had a problem with this nationwide.
it seems the states with least exposure to LDS had more preconceived prejudices against Mormons. I discussed politics with less than a dozen people outside of my family during the Presidential elections, and two of them had been very uncomfortable voting for a Mormon candidate. This was an eye opener for me, I never before realized there was still such a rift between the mainstream Christianity and the LDS Church.
And yet some polls indicated 20% of potential Republican voters had a problem with this nationwide.
it seems the states with least exposure to LDS had more preconceived prejudices against Mormons. I discussed politics with less than a dozen people outside of my family during the Presidential elections, and two of them had been very uncomfortable voting for a Mormon candidate. This was an eye opener for me, I never before realized there was still such a rift between the mainstream Christianity and the LDS Church.
Which has nothing to do with my point about what was going on here in Colorado!
Sorry. You should still know that school children going to see Santa isn't a violation of the 1st Amendment.
In fact, a few weeks ago a naughty principal in a New York school tried to ban Santa in the school and was quickly set straight by the school board and DOE that having a Santa come to the school wasn't a legal problem.
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