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[Prophet 451]

I'm a Brit.

We have a few, of course but they're very few and mostly ignored. There's very much a cultural expectation here that faith is a private matter. Virtually no-one doubts that evolution is the most likely explanation, very few object to gay marriage (we call it "domestic partnership" but legally it's identical). Abortion is legally settled ground but rarely brought up in politics but many people still have an emotional response to it.

Remember when Blair said that he thought schools should also teach "intelligent design"? Shocked hell out of us since the ID crowd are a tiny, tiny minority here. Of course, since he left office, it's becoming clear that Blair is a religious nut too.

EDIT: I should also point out that the type of virulent fundementalism you have there which is as much about politics as religion is unique to the USA. the kind of militant faith that gets the Religious Reich accomodated in politics is simply unknown in the UK (outside Northern Ireland) and most of Europe. When we hear about someone like Huckabee, we occasionally ask ourselves if the USA has ever really been civilised.