3/13/07

Speak of the Devil

Too bad today isn't Thursday, I could have written "Hey, today is turning into Not-So-Theistic Thursday!"

OK then.

The timing of this news with my religious tangent post below is noteworthy.

excerpt:

"Only 45 percent of Americans said they would vote for a "generally well-qualified" atheist, according to a February Gallup Poll, ranking them lowest on a list that included Mormons (72 percent), candidates on their third marriage (67 percent) and homosexuals (55 percent).

The Washington-based coalition, which lobbies on behalf of atheists, humanists and other nontheists, said that "few if any elected officials, even at the lowest level, would self-identify as a nontheist" in response to its survey. The coalition eventually offered $1,000 to the person who could identify the highest-level atheist, agnostic, humanist "or any other kind of nontheist" in public office."

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