Reply #6: Other: we need to discuss it and own up to our own hypocrisy of being [View All]

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intolerant of the devout or the religious who we have known. We have no right to be intolerant of people born with the ability to have faith.

Yes we can be angry at opportunistic leaders and politicization. Perhaps the idea that religion should be mixing with the state is a great fallacy that needs to be fought off. Activist religious leaders are at times very wrong. And at times do as good questions: abortion is not trite.

So we have some discussion to do. The only way to defeat the heinous psychopaths in the WH is to be really adult (to their adolescent followers) and know our own Liberal hypocrisies. We have to know ourselves and know our pettiness to fight them off. We need to deal with the whole religious issue. And we need guidance from the religious in our own movement... and not be taking guidance from the libertarians who have been kicked out of the Conservative Party and want a place to 'yack on' about their all-important lives and do not extend the same rights to others (the religious).

Saying that religious organizations should not have the same privileges as non-profits or non-governmental organizations if they follow the same criteria is just ignorant. Of course they should not pay taxes!

I say the ones bringing up this issue and 'framing it in religious intolerance' are trolls. Just trying to keep us DUers from learning about our own hypocrisy.

IMHO