re: #7 Destro

I did not know that he linked up with the “ground zero victory mosque” assholes. That negates all he says here. You can’t be an atheist and link up with religious bigots to deny others their religious rights.

You have to allow as an atheist complete freedom of religion and free speech to so as to tell religious people why you are an atheist and the religious people through persuasion to convert you.

He was also a supporter of UK’s UKIP:

In April 2010, Condell urged his viewers to vote “for freedom” and said that a “vote for any of the three main parties” would be a wasted vote in the 2010 general election. The same day the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) said that Condell “urges voters to shun the three old parties and vote UKIP”. In a video titled “Vote small, think big”, uploaded a fortnight before the 2010 UK general elections, and on his website, Pat Condell expressed support for the policies of the UK Independence Party.

UKIP

The UK Independence Party (UKIP, play /ˈjuːkɪp/ YEW-kip) is a Eurosceptic and right-wing populis political party in the United Kingdom. The party was founded on the idea of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union but has since become a multi-issue party with a full manifesto.

UKIP has never won a seat in the House of Commons. UKIP has three members in the unelected House of Lords, all of which are due to defections from Conservative peers. It has 12 seats in the European Parliament, which is a reduction from 13 won in 2009 because of defections, but with one gained from the defection of Roger Helmer from the Conservative Party.

The leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, was re-elected on 5 November 2010, having first served from 2006 to 2009. Farage has been a UKIP MEP since 1999[10] and is a founding member of the party after leaving the Conservative Party in 1992 when it led Britain into the Maastricht treaty.