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To: Lane3 who wrote (95014)	1/13/2005 11:46:28 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

Oh, the symbolism argument, eh? You don't really care what the President thinks, but you do care about the symbolism of it, the symbolic effect. You don't like religion, Bush does, so that's a symbolic insult to you and people like you. So if you like to play tennis but the President plays golf, that's a symbolic insult to tennis players? Or maybe it's more like broccoli. George H.W. Bush doesn't like broccoli, so that's an insult to broccoli eaters and broccoli growers? As far as I can remember, Clinton didn't have a dog, so that was a symbolic insult to dog owners, I guess. Well, if you've got nothing better to do than feel insulted because Bush never said before yesterday that he respects the rights of Americans to not believe in God, maybe you have time to research how many past Presidents went out of their way to say that they respected the rights of Americans to not believe in God? I admit to never having paid attention to that. But then, I tend to look the other way a lot when politicians are talking feel-good pablum. Somehow, the First Amendment gives me all the comfort I need. Now, if he'd actually gone out of his way to say that he did NOT respect the rights of Americans to not be religious, that would worry me. Edit: and lest you think I don't have any dog in the fight, I've been an agnostic. And, although I call myself a Catholic, a lot of mainstream Catholics would tell you that I am not what they consider to be Catholic. I do believe in God, but I haven't always. But it never crossed my mind to care whether Lyndon Johnson or Dick Nixon or Jimmy Carter approved or not.