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Originally posted by calculoso@Apr 11 2005, 05:44 AM
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@Apr 10 2005, 12:57 PM
If it came to supporting legislation such as marriage and abortion laws, do you not think his religon would play a roll in that? Or how about foreign policy issues? All that stuff would affect us.
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So essentially you're saying that anyone who's religious can't be in government.
I find that amazingly prejudiced and discriminatory - and this from someone who isn't at all religious.
I don't want a government to be religious. I think there should be a separation of church from state. That said, automatically disqualifying someone due to their religious beliefs? Discrimination at its finest.
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True, a person's religion should not make him/her any less qualified to play the political game. It's just that when said person make policies that don't agree with his/her personal religious beliefs it becomes incredibly hypocritical for this person to separate the church and the state within his/her own self. If you're in politics you should follow what the majority wants (hypothetically, in a democracy), but what could be said about someone who's convictions are so weak that he/she will do something that goes against their own moral values/beliefs? [/b][/quote]
Exactly. Well said.