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

To: greenspirit who wrote (14326)	3/7/2000 2:49:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I did once go on the misdirected (and misspelled) "enviromentalist thread" and state that I thought the more extreme cadre of environmental activists to be a bunch of anti-scientific wackos more interested in flogging their own limp little egos than in effectively managing environmental issues. However, Gore's association with environmental activists is pretty much a matter of public record: they endorse him, he supports their platform, to the greatest extent allowed by political expedience. If Gore went into a meeting with Earth First, emerged with an endorsement he had not previously carried, and refused to say what he had promised in return, I would say that this was a matter for concern. There are fundamental differences, though, between environmental and religious issues. Real threats to the environment exist. They can be studied by legitimate scientists. The work of those scientists can be subjected to peer review. A very considerable degree of verification can be achieved, and an intelligent attempt made at developing policies that weigh environmental concerns of the short and long term against the anticipated effects of measures intended to alleviate those concerns. Religion, of course, is totally different. No claim made by any religion can be independently verified. No objective evidence is available to suggest which (if any) of the many who claim to speak for God actually do, or even if God actually exists. Given those constraints, it is singularly inappropriate for government to place the temporal power of its endorsement behind any religious sect. I don't suppose I should answer the other post addressed to me, but I suppose I will. Me and my big mouth. Not now, though; I'm off to play after-school soccer with my son. A foreign game, and doubtless further evidence of my alleged allegiance to the Prince of Darkness.