Most voters would back Mormon or gay, but not an atheist
In a new Gallup poll, 22 percent of Americans say they would not vote for a “generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be Mormon.”
That’s the same number since Gallup began asking the question back in 1967, when George Romney, father of Mitt, was running for president. However, as Gallup notes, 25 percent of Americans in 1959 said they wouldn’t vote for a Catholic, and one year later John Kennedy was elected president.
A few other tidbits:
– Democrats (27 percent) were more likely than Republicans (18 percent) to reject a Mormon candidate.
– Two-thirds of Americans said they would support a well-qualified presidential candidate who happened to be gay, compared to only 26 percent in 1978.
– Eighty-nine percent said they would support a Jewish candidate. Again, it’s interesting to track that historically. Before World War II and the terrors of the Holocaust (1937), only 46 percent would support a Jew for president. By 1958, it had risen to 62 percent, and by the ’60s it reached 80 percent.
– Fewer than half — 49 percent — would support an otherwise well-qualified candidate who happened to be atheist. But that too has changed. In 1958, the first year it was asked, just 18 percent would have supported an atheist.
– Ninety-four percent say they would back a black candidate. That number didn’t top 50 percent until the mid-Sixties, jumping nine points — 48 percent to 59 percent — between 1963 and 1965, testament to the mind-changing power of the civil rights movement. It jumped another 14 points — 79 percent to 93 percent — between 1987 and 1997. It’s pure speculation, but that’s also the rough time frame in which Bill Cosby dominated the TV ratings as Dr. Cliff Huxtable.
– Today, 93 percent would vote for a woman, but in 1969 only 53 percent of Americans were willing to say that. The crucial jump in support for female candidates occurred as the women’s lib movement took off. By 1971, that number had hit 66 percent, a 13-point increase in just two years.
You hear a lot of people talk about how much America has changed, and they seldom imply it’s for the better. But in many ways the changes of the last 50 years have made this a much better, stronger and united nation.
– Jay Bookman
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kevin
June 21st, 2011
10:21 am
Good Little Liberal,
The counrty is not in shambles, captain hyperbole. To be fair, the country is experiencing a tough time. You realize that Obama inherited this mess from Bush whose administration’s needless Iraq war (based on lies) in conjuction with de-regulation of financial institutions helped cause this mess. Is was on Bush’s watch that the country started down this road. And, it’s worth noting that most economists say the country is slowly but surely recovering.
Blaming Obama for our current situation is liking blaming a firefighter for starting the fire.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:21 am
sorry, strong ‘traditional’ male.
Doggone/GA
June 21st, 2011
10:21 am
“Very close doggone. Sacrificing you own rights for the community!”
Except that’s not communism
Kamchak
June 21st, 2011
10:22 am
…show me one sitcom that there is a strong male!
There’s your sign.
Oi!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 21st, 2011
10:22 am
My opinion is based on fact
Not intended to be a factual statment or to even suggest that opinion purportedly derived from selected “facts” is somehow informed or carries some credibility.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:23 am
Doggone, please explain.
Good little liberal
June 21st, 2011
10:24 am
An Atheist
Maybe it’s the past experiences with Atheists:
Stalin murdered 40 million
Pol Pot Murdered 25 million
Mao, worst human right records ever.
Can you name a single Atheist leaders that did a good job of . . . of . . . . just keeping their citizens out of mass graves?
DebbieDoRight
June 21st, 2011
10:24 am
And Obama extended the “bush” tax cuts.
Because the GOP were holding the bill to extend UI benefits hostage. How quickly you guys forget your own History! I for one wanted Obama to say “Screw you — no more Bush Tax Cuts” however he didn’t want to see the unemployed shafted because the GOP were a bunch of thugs in $5K suits.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:25 am
GLL, that was funny.
Good little liberal
June 21st, 2011
10:25 am
Keep Up
tick . . . .tick . . . tick
Ankle biter alert.
Dave R.
June 21st, 2011
10:25 am
kevin, your whole 10:21 post is negated by the role of the LEGISLATIVE Branch. The Executive Branch has little to do with how an economy operates.
Catherine
June 21st, 2011
10:26 am
Can we PLEASE have a black gay atheist woman president already? It would be a welcome change.
stands for decibels
June 21st, 2011
10:26 am
I thought the Dems were the “big tent” tolerant party?
if only they’d tolerate a Mormon Senate majority leader. if only.
Good little liberal
June 21st, 2011
10:26 am
kevin
THe Pelosi Reid Congress started this mess in 2007. Since Obama took over the White House, we have been in a nose dive.
How much longer are you willing to ignore the damage that he has done?
Brosephus
June 21st, 2011
10:27 am
Doggone
I’ve seen that, and I vehemently disagree with that train of thought. Anybody with common friggin’ sense knows that profits are not prepetual. Anyone who believes that is a complete idiot. Companies will have to take losses at some point and time. Why not absorb the losses when things are the lowest and ride prosperity all the way back up? I fail to see how socialism and/or pushing socialism would have anything to do with it. I guess that comes from the simplistic thought processes of some of the simple people here.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:27 am
That’s right Debbie! Stick it to those people who have worked hard for their money!
Doggone/GA
June 21st, 2011
10:27 am
“Doggone, please explain”
Altruism is not a political system. Communism is.
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:27 am
“@Bosch, What do you know about service?!?”
Apparently more than you if you insist upon comparing Libya and Iraq just at a vain attempt to score political points.
Good little liberal
June 21st, 2011
10:27 am
Catherine
:Can we PLEASE have a black gay atheist woman president already? It would be a welcome change.”
We do. Have you seen the clown throw a baseball?
Dave R.
June 21st, 2011
10:28 am
GLL, I’m going to take exception to your linking Atheists to mass murders, as the REAL reason why those atrocities occurred was that they were in countries that didn’t have a rule of law. We have our Constitution to keep that from happening, thank you very much.
James
June 21st, 2011
10:28 am
I always find it funny that people complain so bitterly about Obama’s supposed lack of experience for the Presidency.
Lincoln served four terms in the Illinois House of Representatives and a single term in the U.S. House (and while he was there he voted a solid Whig record, almost always following the party line). No time as a governor or US Senator.
Nearly 20 presidents served less than 10 years as a governor, US Rep, US Senator, or state legislator.
This hardly makes him the “least qualified president ever!!!!”
And I’ve often noticed the same people who bemoaned Obama’s lack of experience rail against the evils of career politicians.
kevin
June 21st, 2011
10:28 am
Dave R.,
Except for the fact that congress’s approval of the Iraq war based on misinformation propogated by the Bush administration and that de-regulation was a completely conservative agenda.
jj
June 21st, 2011
10:28 am
I don’t remember Jay asking if America would back a Muslim????
AmVet
June 21st, 2011
10:29 am
Exactly my sentiments, Catherine.
Which reminds me of the old adage, “Yes, I have seen God. She’s black and she’s pissed!”
Dave R.
June 21st, 2011
10:29 am
GLL @ 10:27:
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:29 am
This is for you debbie.
http: //www.smartmoney.com/spend/rip-offs/10-things-millionaires-wont-tell-you-23697/
DawgDad
June 21st, 2011
10:30 am
So are we looking for a gay black female Jew who converted to Mormon? All of this is nonsense.
USinUK
June 21st, 2011
10:30 am
GLL – stating a historical fact – before there was “corporate welfare”, there was corporate/government corruption (where they just went ahead and bought the congress critter they wanted … sorta like now, but without as much paperwork
getalife
June 21st, 2011
10:31 am
jj,
“I don’t remember Jay asking if America would back a Muslim????”
Jay is not ignorant of the facts like you.
The President is a Christian.
Fact.
Stop lying.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:31 am
Bosch, I did twenty years. Frankly, I am trying to remain civil. I will admit, you have angered me a bit with that comment. Especially from one who never served a day in their life.
Adam
June 21st, 2011
10:31 am
Peadawg: That’s not saying much considering the job (lack there of) he’s done.
I would like to point out that if you applied that to Bush, his MBA and “running a business” credentials mean nothing.
Seriously, Obama is qualified. He was qualified before and he’s qualified even more now. And he’s certainly not the worst we’ve had. Personally I’m glad he didn’t have a chance to get super corrupt in other elected office prior to being elected POTUS.
Good little liberal
June 21st, 2011
10:33 am
Dave R.
I would like to argue that point with a rational, intelligent conservative such as yourself, but we are both so used to shooting fish in a barrel that it wold drive us both crazy.
Let’s leave it with the clown throwing a baseball like a girl in those “depends” jeans.
Work awaits. Give em hell.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
June 21st, 2011
10:35 am
Almost 30% of Democrats wouldn’t vote for a Mormon?? Very telling…
Joe Cool~"PRESIDENT Obama" Tells Birthers,"Thanks For Playing BI+CHES"
June 21st, 2011
10:35 am
“Would voters back a Mormon? Yes, they voted in a muslim.”
LOL… Poor LIL Willie!
Morning All!
Kamchak
June 21st, 2011
10:35 am
I will admit, you have angered me a bit with that comment.
What happens after you get angry?
Will you turn into a green Lou Ferrigno?
Dave R.
June 21st, 2011
10:35 am
James, first of all, BAD example of using Lincoln as a good President. Worst example of a Federal overseer we’d had up until that time.
Second, while I don’t know Lincoln’s record in the Illinois House, I reckon it wasn’t filled with more “present” votes than actual votes and no legislation proposed or passed in his tenure.
Add in the no economic, private sector, leadership and management skills, and Hope & Punt ™ truly is the least qualified President we’ve ever elected.
And still is.
DebbieDoRight
June 21st, 2011
10:35 am
GLL: A community organizer is not qualified to lead the military and control the economy of the most powerful nation the world has even known?
Why is it that you guys just won’t or can’t recognize the fact that the man was a Harvard Professor, A Lawyer, A State Senator AND a US Senator BEFORE he was ever president? If your litmus test is the lowest job that anyone has ever held before they ever took office then let’s apply it with a broad brush….
Palin – WalMart greeter.
Reagan – B Movie Actor
Schwarzenegger – Body Builder
Dumbya – Family Runt
Strom Thurmond – Playboy
Anne Coulter – Stripper
Glen Beck – Villiage Idiot
Truth: Well I guess that explains the 95% vote from a certain segment of the population for Obama
It also explains the 100% vote from ANOTHER segment of the population to the republican party. Duh!
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:35 am
BMDPD,
“I did twenty years”
Then you of all people should know better than to dishonor our military service men and women with such dishonest comparisons — in such a vain and disgusting attempt to score political points.
“Frankly, I am trying to remain civil. I will admit, you have angered me a bit with that comment.”
So? You’ve angered me with your complete contempt for our service men and women.
Joe Mama
June 21st, 2011
10:35 am
GLL — “This is all about opinions. My opinion is based on fact.”
Excellent. Then if your opinion is based on fact, then you should have no problem presenting and articulating the particular facts on which your opinion is based.
Please, by all means, proceed.
“Trying to pick yet another fight in which you will lose this morning?”
Maybe instead of being bluff and hostile, you could instead look upon this as an opportunity to educate and enlighten me.
Please, share your facts and background information with me.
stands for decibels
June 21st, 2011
10:36 am
GLL, I’m going to take exception to your linking Atheists to mass murders, as the REAL reason why those atrocities occurred was that they were in countries that didn’t have a rule of law.
Also, there’s the inconvenient truth that if you’re going to call Pol Pot an atheist that’d make Japan’s last god-only-knows-how-many PMs “atheist”. And that probably half of the heads of state of the EU are probably atheist (I doubt many of their voters give a good crap).
Yea, verily, Nothing is Free… but GLL’s sh-tty political punditry.
getalife
June 21st, 2011
10:36 am
“Let’s leave it with the clown throwing a baseball like a girl in those “depends” jeans. ”
Yeah lil lib.
That is your version of “shooting fish in a barrel” but do the sane among us, it is just plain silly.
Coming from a genius that blames the minimum wage for all our problems, you stay the course in silly.
redneckbluedog
June 21st, 2011
10:38 am
You cannot exactly compare Catholicism to Mormonism…Catholicisim was around prior to Protestantism….Mormonism, not so much…You really have to question the judgement of any Mormon….Their religion is secretive, and really has no historical credibility beyond what Joseph Smith “said” he saw….Furthermore, you need to go no further than the powerful Southern Baptist Convention to see their view on Mormonism…..A Mormon candidate in the South = A Snowball’s chance in Hell….
Brosephus
June 21st, 2011
10:39 am
What happens after you get angry?
Will you turn into a green Lou Ferrigno?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXpKUu6pUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4C1ZQKmw4
getalife
June 21st, 2011
10:39 am
The dem majority leader was just reelected so there goes that talking point.
What else you got cons?
Bring it.
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:39 am
And BMDPD,
I may not have served one day in the military, but apparently, I have more respect for our military personnel than a 20 year veteran. How sad is that?
stands for decibels
June 21st, 2011
10:39 am
Why is it that you guys just won’t or can’t recognize the fact that the man was a Harvard Professor, A Lawyer, A State Senator AND a US Senator BEFORE he was ever president?
September 3, 2008. Sarah Palin made the false comparison of Obama’s community organizing gig to her stint as mayor of Wasilla, in her RNC acceptance speech. Ever since, her fawning fanboys have slavishly followed her lead. That’s why.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:40 am
Kam, I was merely stating that I am mad. However, I didn’t throw insults or act like a leftist.
Bosch, I was merely reflecting that there are many out there that consider what we are doing in Libya as not legal. We also know who is spending the money on the Bombs and it is not our NATO allies. I was not trying to score “political points”.
Joe Mama
June 21st, 2011
10:40 am
GLL — “Maybe it’s the past experiences with Atheists:
Stalin murdered 40 million
Pol Pot Murdered 25 million
Mao, worst human right records ever.”
Good thing theism doesn’t have any atrocities like The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition or the Nazi concentration camps in its history. I’m sure we could all come up with plenty more examples of atrocities that weren’t carried out due to some theistic religious motivation or other.
A great deal more death and destruction has been dealt out in the name of various gods than has *ever* been dealt out in the name of atheism.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:40 am
Bosch is trying to get me banned.
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:41 am
“and really has no historical credibility beyond what Joseph Smith “said” he saw”
That could be said for any religion — even Christianity.
getalife
June 21st, 2011
10:42 am
Libya is legal and our President is following precedent by other Presidents.
Voting to cut funding in Libya is weak on national security.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:42 am
sfd, you said lawyer.
Kamchak
June 21st, 2011
10:42 am
Kam, I was merely stating that I am mad.
I was merely illustrating that I don’t care.
DebbieDoRight
June 21st, 2011
10:43 am
BMDDBVD @ 10:27 – since when do Congressman work hard for their money?
Dave R: The Executive Branch has little to do with how an economy operates.
Dave R I’m going to hold you to this statement. So that the next time you write, Obama, Where are the JOBS???!?? I’m going to mention today, June 21, 2011 and the above comment that you just made. PS: why is it when Obama does something good, it’s NEVER his policies or his vision; yet if something bad happens, then it’s ALL his fault? Just asking……
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:43 am
“I was not trying to score “political points”.”
Sure you were — by bringing it up. Trying to or not, your contempt for Obama may be subconscious, but any attempt at all to compare those two military conflicts is a direct slap in the face of any soldier who died, fought, or was injured. And, apparently your 20 year service taught you nothing about honor.
Peadawg
June 21st, 2011
10:43 am
Voting to cut funding in Libya is a fantastic idea. Fixed your typo.
Brosephus
June 21st, 2011
10:44 am
Bosch
You liberal, liberal you… QUit trying to get BMDPD banned. That’s all y’all liberals do is try to get people banned from around here. Stiffling people’s free speech and stuff. Damned liberals!!
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:44 am
“Bosch is trying to get me banned.”
No, I’m trying to get you to see how dishonorable you are by comparing the two conflicts.
josef
June 21st, 2011
10:44 am
A gay Mormon on theological steroids, eh? Why am I thinking Glenn Beck…?
getalife
June 21st, 2011
10:44 am
No typo Pea and you do not speak for me.
Union
June 21st, 2011
10:45 am
whats the difference between and atheist and an agnostic?
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:45 am
Brosephus,
I suspect BMDPD is mad more at himself because deep down he knows I’m right.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:46 am
Bosch, so nice of you to think of that in your context. It was in your context that you manipulate my words and the reasoning behind my statements. Why don’t you get your fat, liberal, a$$ of this blog and go do something for your neighbor, community, or country. You are a worthless POS.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:47 am
sorry off of this blog. my apologies.
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:47 am
Union,
And atheist does not believe in God, period. Or any other type of supernatural being that controls the universe.
As I understand it, an agnostic believes there is really no way of knowing this one way or another. Not that they believe it or not, but there just isn’t any way to prove God exists, or doesn’t.
Brosephus
June 21st, 2011
10:47 am
Bosch
That still does not allow you to get him banned. Quit making thought-provoking statements, and stick to the bumper sticker rhetoric. That seems to cut down on the reactionary knee-jerking around here.
Good little liberal
June 21st, 2011
10:47 am
DebbieDoRight
Palin. Walmart greeter?
Why do you hate the past governor of Alaska. Is there any other reason that it’s just the cool thing to do?
You libs are lemmings. Try to produce an original thought.
Joe Mama
I don’t know what you do for a living, but at 10:45 AM, I can’t devote the time to educate you. I am obligated to “do” for the people who are putting money in my bank account, not someone who can’t seem to choose between all their different names and personalities that they present here.
stands for decibels
I’m not calling Pol Pot an atheist. He was an Atheist. I asked for examples of Atheists that don’t produce mass graves. But instead of doing that, you get all middle school and start spitting. Maybe if you guys would get a job, you wouldn’t be so angry about setting on your butts all day arguing about things that you can do nothing about.
Try to control those emotions. They REALLY make you out to be a fool.
getalife
I would argue with you, but pal, you’re an imbecile.
Dave R.
June 21st, 2011
10:48 am
DebbieDoRight, you’ll be waiting a looooooong time.
I have been consistent in ALWAYS giving the legislative Branch credit and blame for fiscal matters, including the economy.
And except for DADT repeal, he’s done nothing good that I can give him credit for.
In this era of strong Legislative Branches and weak Executives, the only real thing a President can offer is some form of leadership. In that regard, this President has failed spectacularly on virtually all fronts.
Kamchak
June 21st, 2011
10:49 am
whats the difference between and atheist and an agnostic?
Poor wittle thing. Nobody has taught you the googledy thing yet?
Let me google that for you.
midtownguy
June 21st, 2011
10:49 am
DawgDad; All of this appears as nonsense only to those who have enjoyed the privileges and opportunities this society and country have traditionally afforded to white, christian, heterosexual males.
Adam
June 21st, 2011
10:50 am
Voting to cut funding on Libya is a fine idea. It shows that the Democrats, who support such a measure by a wide margin, are still generally anti-war (consistent) and that Republicans still prefer money matters to anything else, even the pro-war stance they have had for YEARS.
willie lynch
June 21st, 2011
10:50 am
Joe Mama
June 21st, 2011
10:40 am
Very well put. I don’t recall any cries of “devil and country” before they went about their slaughtering. These were terrible men but they weren’t acting as though god sanctioned their actions.
Contractor
June 21st, 2011
10:50 am
DebbieDoRight,
Affirmative action is a government order used in schools and the workplace. They are the ones that put this into law, and they should be the ones upholding it. There is no doubt that white people and Latinos are underrepresented in football and basketball, so how does this not apply? So by your account, affirmative action only has to be reviewed by the deans of schools and owners of a business? So if they don’t want to use affirmative action, then they don’t have to? Is that what you are saying? Try thinking a little deeper so you don’t sound like you have a few bolts loose in that head of yours.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 21st, 2011
10:50 am
Cease and desist using that Sarah Palin trademark name……you must now use Snowbillie Snooki or THAT IDIOT. If you are on the extreme right (delineated by your use of terms “locknut”, I’m shooting fish in a barrel, or similiar crazy), then you may call her the “Half Term Governor who Quit and now snookers us out of money claiming she might run for President”
AmVet
June 21st, 2011
10:51 am
“Voting to cut funding in Libya is a fantastic idea.”
But ONLY because the CiC is not a Republican. If it was McCain, you’d be all for it, correct? Or would you be howling non-stop to end it? (Puhleeze.)
Juan mo time.
Because the capricious cons were so spineless regarding their nearly decade long support for the botched invasion and occupation (up until Jan. 2009), they have ZERO credibility on any matter that involves the lives of our service people.
Word.
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:51 am
Brosephus,
People get themselves banned, I’m all about personal responsibility.
getalife
June 21st, 2011
10:51 am
I wanted to hear what Hillary had to say about the women driving protest in Saudi Arabia but CNN cut her off.
Did she come out against it and why?
Peadawg
June 21st, 2011
10:52 am
“But ONLY because the CiC is not a Republican. If it was McCain, you’d be all for it, correct? Or would you be howling non-stop to end it? ”
Good job making an ass (uming) or yourself there, AmVet.
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:52 am
Bro, it was not a thought provoking statement. I was Bosch’s opinion based on the fact that Bosch tried to rationalize my thoughts to Bosch’s way of thinking. It was taking the motivation of my comments completely out of context to score ‘blog’ points with her leftest cronies.
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:53 am
“You are a worthless POS”
I may be a worthless POS, but at least I have enough respect for our military men and women to not dishonor with cheap attempts at taking pot shots at our President.
AmVet
June 21st, 2011
10:53 am
Bosch, and why I am a non-theist.
I do not discount the possibility of god, but I view it as similar to aliens “visiting” us.
Without the first shred (not shroud) of compelling evidence, I’m extremely dubious…
willie lynch
June 21st, 2011
10:54 am
It doesn’t seem to be noted that the atheist murderers mentioned came from countries where Christianity or Buddhism were more prevelant religions. No Islam? Hmmm?
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:54 am
Oh score 1 blog point for the POS!
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:54 am
Oh, so BMDPD has left now and come back? Did you have time to do any inner reflection?
josef
June 21st, 2011
10:54 am
redneckbluedog
@ 10:38
You might not want to bet on that…the anti-papist State Church of the South didn’t carry a lot of sway in the election of 1928…
getalife
June 21st, 2011
10:54 am
“I would argue with you, but pal, you’re an imbecile.”
Minimum wage increase killed the dinosaurs.
Thought I would make your statement true for a change.
Adam
June 21st, 2011
10:55 am
Atheists do not let religious ideology run their lives. This should be a plus. Instead, it is seen as a lack of morals.
It’s ironic. The same morals many Christians claim to have are immediately dismissed in favor of money or power (greed). Atheists seem to stick more to what they believe in other areas, such as helping out their fellow man. They just don’t need a god or a pastor to tell them to do it. If the pastors would preach help for ALL the poor, universal health care is good, and stop being greedy all the time, then maybe things would be different. If we truly are a Christian Nation, then Christians should have no problem having their taxes used for health care and helping the poor. Instead they want it used for war and subsidizing corporations.
This is what I see and is all opinion. Not everyone goes along those lines, but the most vocal of “Christians” DO follow this, and even rail against those who call them out on it, following a libertarian wet dream ideology that is decidedly NOT Christian, but nevertheless a mantra and full of mindless obedience.
Brosephus
June 21st, 2011
10:55 am
Kam @ 10:49
Bosch
I’m all about personal responsibility.
Doggone/GA
June 21st, 2011
10:56 am
“I fail to see how socialism and/or pushing socialism would have anything to do with it. I guess that comes from the simplistic thought processes of some of the simple people here.”
got it in one!
Gale
June 21st, 2011
10:56 am
Just returning to expalin my earlier comment about atheists not allowed to hold public office. Some state laws did state this. Atheists were even banned as unreliable witnesses. However,
quoting an article that pretty much killed those laws.
.
“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled all such state provisions unconstitutional and unenforceable in a 1961 ruling in a Maryland case: “We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person ‘to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion.’”
The article went on to comment that pretty much the only thing keeping a qualified atheist from being elected was the wa-hoos voting.
Bosch
June 21st, 2011
10:56 am
AmVet,
Aliens….good one.
getalife
June 21st, 2011
10:56 am
BMDPD,
Take a break or are you trying to get banned..
BMDPD
June 21st, 2011
10:58 am
Sorry POS, no blog point scored with that one, hon.
josef
June 21st, 2011
10:58 am
willy
Okay, Muslim countries and mass murders…Ottoman Turkey and the Armenians…
stands for decibels
June 21st, 2011
11:00 am
Cease and desist using that Sarah Palin trademark name……you must now use Snowbillie Snooki or THAT IDIOT.
feh. I can’t get that worked up over BibleSpice to call her a rude name.
and GLL, I know this is too easy, but…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_No_Belief.png
You really think those light-shaded countries have elected mass murderers?
Brosephus
June 21st, 2011
11:01 am
BMDPD
I don’t think Bosch was trying to “score points” with anyone. I’ve seen Bosch apply that same principle that he believes to everybody here who have tried to compare Iraq and Libya. His rationale has been the same every time, so I can respect him for standing on his principles. On the other hand, you and others who have made that comparison are intitled to your opinions as well, and I respect that too.
Personally, I would not compare Iraq to Libya as we do not have military personnel there actively engaging anyone on the ground. If we get 1000,000 troops on the ground there, then we can compare the two. As someone referenced the CIA being there earlier, that does not equate to “boots on the ground” in my book. If we refer to CIA presence as boots on the ground, then we have boots on damn near every sovereign ground in the world.
josef
June 21st, 2011
11:02 am
Oh, cut the horsesh*t…there’s just as many jacka33 atheists, agnostics, believers and what have you proportionately…and no group is without it’s pious whatever-thumpers…nor without its decent folks…
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
June 21st, 2011
11:03 am
Well, I’m pretty open-minded. I don’t care about a canadate’s personal stuff, long as he’s White, male, Southren Baptist or Holiness, straight as a arrow, against abortion, against buying booze on Sunday, and don’t cotton to Those People or the Jews. And of course he needs to be a Conservative Republican that’s for cutting taxes and getting rid of all this welfare spending on the old coots, welfare queens, and Those People.
Other than that, I look at the guy with a open mind.
Have a good Tuesday everybody.
DebbieDoRight
June 21st, 2011
11:05 am
GLL: Palin. Walmart greeter? hy do you hate the past governor of Alaska. Is there any other reason that it’s just the cool thing to do?
I was going to put down her job as a Quik Trip slurpy dispenser, but I think she quit that job after one day, so it doesn’t count.
You libs are lemmings. Try to produce an original thought.
Well maybe I’ll do like Palin and write down all my “original” thoughts on my palm……in case I forget them……
Dave R: DebbieDoRight, you’ll be waiting a looooooong time
We’ll see. Hope springs eternal.
Contractor: There is no doubt that white people and Latinos are underrepresented in football and basketball, so how does this not apply?
How many whites and latinos have gone out for professional sports and been turned down because of their race? If the answer is “a bunch” then maybe they have a class action suit in the making. I know a good lawyer.
So by your account, affirmative action only has to be reviewed by the deans of schools and owners of a business?
When did I say that? You’re not trying to put words in my mouth are you?
Try thinking a little deeper so you don’t sound like you have a few bolts loose in that head of yours.
Try following your own advice. You were the ones who mentioned blacks in sports to correlate your arguments against Affirmative Action, not me. Duh!
Keep – Snowbillie Snooki it is!!
josef – too funny!!
Brosephus
June 21st, 2011
11:05 am
*If we get
1000,000100,000 troops….. one too many zeros there…