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To: KLP who wrote (50054)	6/12/2004 7:53:13 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793964

I think it is a high form of bigotry to insist that we abandon 'religion' ..... I don't know where you dug up that straw man. It's absurd to think that anyone should abandon his religion. It would be both unfeasible and unconstitutional in addition to monumentally intolerant and intrusive. Besides being just plain not nice. What I'm calling bigotry is looking down on people without religion as inherently incapable in virtue. This is offensive in the general population and it is outrageous in a president who is supposed to the be president of all of us. If you understood "religion" you probably wouldn't call it bigotry. I don't know what understanding religion has to do with that. It seems to me it's about understanding bigotry, instead. Bigotry is about slighting members of a class of people based on a prejudice about that class. I know of no data that demonstrate that the non-religious are without conscience or virtue at a greater frequency than anyone else. And there is definitely no evidence that all individuals within that group are so disabled. I am certainly not. And I get righteously outraged when bigots assume so. Further, there is no evidence that the religious get their consciences from a deity. They are entitled to believe that if they so choose--it may even be so--but that is not a suitable basis for the disparagement of the non-religious by a president, who is supposed to protect us from official discrimination, not foster it.