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Since returning to Iraq after the U.S. invasion, al-Jaafari has worked to shore up his secularist credentials. "He may head a Shi'ite party, but he has never sounded like a Shi'ite politician," says Ammar Zain Alabideen, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party, the leading Sunni political group. Dawa retains ties to the Iranian government, but al-Jaafari says that won't jaundice the way he views Washington. "The U.S. liberated Iraq from Saddam, and for that we will forever be grateful," he told TIME...
...equal rightsfirst for African Americans and now for homosexuals. But they have also been enthralled by the most intolerant of their interest groups. The liberal hostility to funding faith-based social programswhich are provided mostly by poor black and Latino congregations who need the financial helpis a witlessly secularist reaction against some of the most successful antipoverty efforts in the U.S. The liberals' defense of abortion beyond the first trimester has no moral rationale unless the life of the mother is at risk. Their full-throated embrace of freedom of speech ignores the social pollution caused by the arrant commercialization...
...they have also been enthralled by the most intolerant of their interest groups. The liberal hostility to funding faith-based social programs-which are provided mostly by poor black and Latino congregations who need the financial help-is a witlessly secularist reaction against some of the most successful antipoverty efforts in the U.S. The liberals' defense of abortion beyond the first trimester has no moral rationale unless the life of the mother is at risk...
...Religion is less accountable to logic” and also (2) “Wielding religion as a political tool is unacceptable and downright wrong.” By saying this, Itoh unwittingly explains why those of faith feel maligned and rejected by the Democratic Party. I am a secularist and have no religious faith, but feel others are given the right under the constitution to express their religious faith. Common sense explains that those who have a faith wed their principles to their religious underpinnings. These folks are citizens and have a right to join in the political process...
...campaign, George Bush sneered “Massachusetts” like it was a four-letter word. Not since the elder George Bush deployed the same thirteen-letter epithet against Michael Dukakis had a state been appropriated as an adjective to connote such out-of-touch, weak-kneed, secularist, elitist, tax-hiking Un-Americanism. Tragically, though maybe not surprisingly, it resonated on both occasions...