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Nice list!

I agree with almost all including Falwell and Robertson. Justice Moore I am more ambivalent about, I think the separation of Church and State rules are being skewed, religion has been a bedrock of U.S. society, Look up George Washington's first Thanksgiving day proclamation.

But otherwise I agree (Boy alt of wackos from CA and Mass eh?)

I would agree that religion is the bedrock of American society, but I think George Washington would have joined me in criticizing those men above for all the things they have said against the first amendment:

Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it is certainly the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others. --George Washington, letter to the Religious Society called the Quakers, September 28, 1789.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society. --George Washington, letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792; from George Seldes, ed., The Great Quotations, Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1983, p. 726.

In the Enlightened Age and in this Land of equal Liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States. --George Washington, letter to the members of the New Church in Baltimore, January 27, 1793. Quoted in Richard B. Morris, Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries, Harper & Row, 1973, p. 269.

One doesn't need to be "liberal" to be a traitor to this country's founding principles. Too many on the right have convinced themselves that if we could only establish Christianity by law in this country, all of our problems would go away. They're ignoring the thousand years of civil religious warfare that plagued Europe before the American Revolution, a fact not unnoticed by our founding fathers.

Those false and greedy Christians stay on my list of traitors.