re: #47 William Lewis

They were the first fundamentalist atheists I ever ran into while living in Madison. No better than the pulpit pimps.

I’m going to disagree on this. FFRF will go after elementary and secondary schools which try to impose a single religion on students. This is extremely important in places where there’s a religious monoculture, you know, like Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. (Compare to Utah, where there’s a strong state ACLU which is willing to take on local school districts when *their* religious monoculture acts up.) They’re also going after the sham that is the clergy housing tax break, which was brought to them by a guy who is a member of one of the conservative churches of Christ (also someone I know).

Yeah, the FFRF can be fanatical in its own way, but I think they do all of us a favor by keeping the religious playing field level. If you’ve never lived in a place where 90 percent of the legislators were members of a single church*, it’s hard to understand the weirdness that arises from a religious monoculture. But I disagree with them on eruvs.

* This kind of has parallels to our current issue with the electoral college not being representative of America as a whole. Utah’s legislature is 90 percent Mormon, but the state itself is at or just below 50 percent Mormon.