To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2566 ) 7/20/2007 1:10:08 PM From: Brumar89 Respond to That means we're supposed to believe the Islamic Revolution's Guard Corps is only interested in developing peaceful nuclear power plants.To win over the religious left, the candidates could moderate their positions on certain issues. But Louis Bolce, a political scientist at Baruch College in New York, tells me that "radical secularism has such a stranglehold that House Democrats, by a 4-to-1 margin, could not bring themselves to vote in favor of keeping God in the Pledge of Allegiance." In addition to making up almost a fifth of Democratic voters in the 2004 election, secularists are the most active members of the party--more likely to give money and go to rallies, for instance, than their religious peers. To judge by the candidates' pledges to teachers unions, abortion advocates and other interest groups, they're not going to risk offending the irreligious by shifting their liberal stances. en.wikipedia.org
