re: #250 Gepetto

no, if you are directing that to me. Once there is acknowledgement that our system evolved over a long course of time from various sets of common sense rules on how to live that were cloaked in religious garb to make them functional at the time, I would like no further religious impact on modern day legislation. It is impossible for committed religious or atheistic people to step into or out of their beliefs like a pair of boots, however, so secularism needs monitors.

Indeed it does, hence the discomfort by most in this thread with the poll results and last night’s debate. When you have candidates running for the highest political office in this nation participating in a debate run by a fundamentalist organization, arguing various flavors of law based upon religion, then it’s time to begin worrying about their committment to secularism. “Do they consider themselves Christians or Americans first?” becomes a legitimate question.