Reply #54: I wouldn't have "lumped" you in with the bushbots [View All]

[beam me up scottie]

if you hadn't called my defense of separation of church and state "hostile" to religion. I have agreed with you many times on DU but this time I cannot. I realize this is no excuse for baiting you, and I apologize for that.
I have never once mocked or derided anyone's religious beliefs, I have no room in my world for intolerance of any kind. I would never advocate the infringement of your right to practice your religion, in fact I would soundly oppose it.
Schools that make policies advocating any religion are guilty of discrimination. For those who are excluded it is not "innocuous".
I never used to be this militant but these last four years have emboldened the religious right. They keep pushing their agenda because they know that they can get away with it. Anyone who stands up to them is branded anti-religious (completely ignoring the fact that many of the opposed are theists themselves). We need to remind them that the Constitution protects the rights of the one even when they seem to be outnumbered by the ideology of the majority.
If I seem abrasive perhaps it's because I'm not feeling particularly charitable to members of the moral majority today. My work day started with listening to our resident christian's comment "Michael Jackson, I hope they hang that queer ni**er" to which his fellow kool-aid drinkers agreed and then waddled to the back office where they could discuss their hatred and bigotry in peace. They've decided it's necessary to avoid talking like that in front of me because I tend to get a little perturbed (to put it mildly). I am considered to be "morally-challenged" because I am not christian. Whenever my next-door neighbor talks about someone with questionable ethics she says they're not christian or they're not real christians.
DU is my haven because it's one of the few places left in this country where diversity is welcomed.