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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Enam Luf who wrote (12891)	2/28/2000 2:54:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I would support anyone who supports the principles of limited constitutional government - specifically our Constitution - ALL OF IT. I would happily support an Orthodox Jew, a Reformed Jew, a Muslim, or an Atheist who convinced me that is what they would work for.

To: Enam Luf who wrote (12891)	2/28/2000 7:17:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 769667

I would oppose electing a pious, observant, orthodox Jew to the presidency, as I would oppose electing a pious, orthodox Muslim or a pious, observant Christian. While at least a Muslim should helieve in the brotherhood of man and respect for other "peoples of the book", I believe that Jews and Christians have frequently discriminated against other religious people, and all of them have discriminated against people who are not monotheistic. Many dissidents or heretics would be acceptable, since they are more likely to have experience as victims rather than discriminators. I expect a president to accept and enforce the American civil religion as embodied in the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments. No president should subject him or herself to any system of belief that requires him to believe that his life and salvation depend on his or her believing one particular version of the truth. Whether this is "Hear oh Israel the Lord thy God is One!", "Allah and Mahomet is his Prophet," or "I believe in the Holy Trinity" it just won't do. I would prefer someone who can say with belief, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..." and who believes that the prohibition applies to him. When a president sends an ambassador to the Vatican or meets in secret with the Pope, he establishes religion; when he invites Billy Graham to the White House to pray with him or commissions officers to serve as military chaplains, he establishes religion, when he cuts the foreskin of his son, or kneels on the carpet facing Mecca in the White House, he establishes religion. When he kisses the book, and adds "So help me God" illegally to his oath, he establishes religion.