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...Faith in Romney? Mitt Romney in the white house [May 21]? I don't think this country could endure another teetotaler President. The charge that questioning Romney's religion amounts to bigotry misses the point that if he were elected, at least 10% of his income-which would come from us taxpayers-would go to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We have the right to ask him what he believes. Remember, this is a church that until the late 1970s believed blacks couldn't go to the highest tier of heaven, limits women's rights...
...intergovernmental panels, activists, socialists and rock stars lecture about stopping global warming. Climate change is a fact. Man-made global warming is a farce. Gore dropped out of divinity school with failing grades, but that hasn't stopped him from traveling around like an evangelist huckster, preaching his phony religion of man-made global warming. Go get a degree in science...
...Well, there are other cases around government establishment of religion, such as the ones challenging government-funded faith-based charities. But they're not as dramatic, because they don't involve concrete objects, or in some case language, that is seen as symbolic of the country's Christian heritage, and where people feel they are being challenged at the very root of their value systems: 'You can't take down MY cross. You can't take away MY 10 Commandments.' The people who bring these cases usually feel just as strongly that they have to take a stand...
...reached a pretty general accommodation in this country between different religious denominations and sects, such as Protestants and Catholics, between whom conflicts like the Bible Riots arose. I do see more bifurcation, a shrinking of mainstream Christian religion and a separation between conservative Christian groups and more secular groups on the left. Both use the terminology of "culture war, " which I appropriated. But thankfully, these wars are by and large rhetorical or legal, which distinguishes us from other cultures where violence seems to be the inevitable outcome of religio-political divisions...
...Islamization undermining the rights of both non-Muslims and more moderate adherents to Islam. Last November, at a party conference for the Muslim-dominated United Malays National Organization ruling party, one delegate vowed he would be willing to "bathe in blood" to defend his ethnicity - and, by extension, his religion. In several Malaysian states, forsaking Islam is a crime punishable by prison time...