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To: xzins
In its eagerness to promote the teaching of creationism in public schools, encourage school prayer, support anti-sodomy statutes, ban abortions, bar gay marriage, limit the use of stem cells, reduce access to contraceptives, and advance the idea of America as a "Christian nation," the Bush administration has done more to politicize religion than any administration in recent American history...

This is wildly inaccurate. I have never heard Bush advance the notion of America as a Christian nation. I have never heard him promote the teaching of creationism. I have never heard him claim that he wants to ban abortion. Reich is grasping at a straw man. Bush is in fact quite moderate on most things than the hysterical left seems to understand. It could have been much worse for them, in terms of their ideas being shut out.

Robert Reich thinks that people like me are as dangerous as terrorists. Though perverse, that doesn't bother me personally, because I think that secular humanism is more dangerous than terrorism.

18 posted on 10/10/2004 6:50:46 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen; Dr. Eckleburg; P-Marlowe

I tend to agree with you. I'd say that the President has played his deeper religious sentiments pretty close to the vest. I think he actually tends in the direction of conservative anglicanism, even though he is methodist.

That tradition doesn't scream aloud its convictions, although it very strongly holds them.


19 posted on 10/10/2004 6:54:34 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Proudly Supporting BUSH/CHENEY 2004!)
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