GOP Atheist Tells Michael Steele to Divorce Religious Right
The Republican National Committee chose Michael Steele as its new party chairman on Friday. A former lieutenant governor of Maryland, Steele becomes the first African-American to lead the GOP.
David Silverman of American Atheists had this response:
I am a Republican Atheist, but I haven't voted for a Republican since Christie Whitman because I haven't been able to do so.
I believe in gun rights, a small government, low taxes, and a strong military. I believe the unions can be just as corrupt as corporations, and I believe in "workfare not welfare".
But I can't vote Republican, ever, because they have become tools of the Religious Right. They are, in my opinion, much more concerned about Intelligent Design, Faith-Based Initiatives, and making ME a 2nd class citizen than any of the issues on which we agree.
I support President Obama, but I really had no choice but to vote for him as Senator McCain had promised more Supreme Court Justices like Scalia. That was a deal killer. It would be like a black person voting for someone who supports segregation -- it doesn't matter what else a candidate says, it's just not going to happen.
So here is my open plea to the incoming GOP President Michael Steele: Please give me my party back. Divorce yourselves from the corruption that is the Religious Right, and return to the values that gave you strength. Religion and politics don't mix -- please learn that. Please be a leader of change, diversity, and modern common sense. Please let me vote Republican, or at least let me give you serious consideration, in the next elections. There can be no change if you give us no choice.
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It is obvious that David Silverman is hypersensitive to the issues of Intelligent Design and Faith-Based Initiatives. Making that the trademark issue of the Republican party is like saying atheist web sites are mainly focused on soliciting donations . Sure they want your money but that isn't their main focus. Ranting passionately about how much they don't believe god exists is their focus. I don't know why they want to congregate and rant on that non issue so passionately if they simply don't believe something, but I digress. The issues of Intelligent Design and Faith-Based Initiatives are extremely rare and insignificant when they do come up. Republicans are too soft on just about every issue they claim to support , that is their primary problem. They are pushovers. DemocRATS use republicans as doormats and the republicans thank them for it. They need to grow a pair.
Moronic David Silverman stated "It would be like a black person voting for someone who supports segregation", well hello one of whom is doomed to repeat history . Are you not aware of what party enacted the Jim Crowe laws ? Or of what party the KKK came from. Blacks have been voting in bigots and slave masters for decades. The democRAT party is responsible for segregation and the KKK. Al Gore Sr was one of the most staunch supporters of segregation. The Republican party was started, by a little known man by the name of Abraham Lincoln, to combat the slave peddling hustlers of the democRAT party and to end slavery. The democrats found a new way to enslave the uneducated masses of all colors. Dependence on the state is the new slavery and the black people, by and large, have taken to their new massas quite fondly. A disdain by the black community for eduction hasn't hurt the cause of the slave massa democrats either. That is why so many blacks think the democRAT party is their friend. They are the worst nightmare of the blacks in this country and they are too gullible and uneducated to know it.
David Silverman helps to peddle this propaganda to blacks by not clearly showing that blacks time and again vote for people who support segregation. The new segregation that the welfare state yields.
David Silverman is clueless.
Silly atheist , who would Steele have to blame for all his 'errs'? He needs a scapegoat .... dumb and dumber .....makes a good show.
The above rather closely echos my own sentiments... I have a very hard time supporting Republicans because they are so often tied to the anti-Science and anti- freedom ideas of religious conservatives .
I fail to see the connection between religous conservatives and people against freedom and science .
religious conservatives are the ones pushing things like creationism and are against teaching evolution (anti- science ) and they are against freedom in that they refuse to allow homosexuals to be legally married .
There are wierdos in every group. Yes, there are people who don't want homosexuals to be able to get married , but many of those people (yes, religious conservatives ) think that civil unions are ok. They dispute the term marriage in these cases because of its traditional ties to the church . And noone I know of is against teaching evolution ; they're just offended that it's taught as truth and not as a theory. The majority of religious conservatives would be happy if teachers were simply allowed to teach the problems with evolutionary theory without being fired . I don't see that as anti- science .
So what problems in Evolution are not being taught in school ?
Also if Christians have issues with homosexual marriage interfering with traditional ties to the church then why don't they have problems with people of other religions getting married interfering in traditional ties to the church?
No, they have no problem with other religions marrying people. Generally speaking, most religions have the same view about who should and should not be able to get married (barring multiple partners and age difference). I don't know of a single religion that would marry homosexuals . Since they all agree on that point, they have nothing to argue over; generally speaking, they have the same definition of marriage .
The case that I'm talking about is LeVake v. Independent School District, a court case out of Minnisota.
Here's a link to an article discussing this case in detail: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/01/levake_v_independent_school_di031411.html
Except for the Christian denominations that marry homosexuals ?
If people get married under another faith then they are clearly not getting married in a Christian sense... so they are going counter to traditional Christian marriage .
The only reason why people oppose homosexual marriage is homophobia... just as the only reason people opposed interracial marriage was racism .
That link does not mention what the scientific criticisms of the ToE are... just that a teacher ran counter to the schools curriculum.
The same thing would happen if a geography teacher tried to push forward the flaws in the spherical earth theory or an astronomy teacher tried to push the flaws in the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Just as it is impossible to be born to prefer fords over chevys. It is impossible to be born knowing that you are to only have sex with one gender over another.
How would you know what gender your genes are telling you to be sexually active with? How would that possibly translate from your genetics to you knowing that any one particular person is the gender your bodies ' genetics require you to be with? How is this even possible.
Is this belief that sexual orientation is genetic based on psychic premonition? How is it possible that your genes tell you that you are only to put your sex organs into a male anus/mouth/ear etc? How does your body scientifically deduce that you are in fact fulfilling your genetic orientation correctly and that the anus/mouth/ear ets is that of a male as required by your genetics? This concept is rediculous.
How can you disagree with people that disagree with you? You claim you want tolerance but you refuse to give it yourself?
Are the "homophobes" born that way? If gays can be, why not the homophobe? Are you a homophobophobe? Were you born to be a homophobophobe? It is all so ridiculous!
You people who claim people are born gay are too ignorant to know you are ignorant!
What about the people that are born to be only with pink and blue unicorns? Are they doomed to be alone forever?
More proof that liberals are just plain insane, as a world famous psychiatrist claims in his book Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of , “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.”