I'm with you Lucifuge. Everyone has a right to their own personal beliefs, but when those beliefs mean that the believer considers himself to be superior to others who do not share his ideas - or worse, as above, that he considers them lesser people and destined for purgatory, then it's pure bigotry. How can we let any politician with strong religious beliefs of ANY kind into office without ensuring that he or she wont use those beliefs to repress others who do not share them, as is being done above?

We all have a right not just to question and disbelieve when we so wish, but also the right to be considered equal to those we question and disbelieve.
Ever met a christian who said 'live and let live' about another religion, without them adding 'of course,they wont get into heaven until they accept JC as their saviour..." at the end of it? Christianity would be fine if it accepted that it may be wrong, and that Jews, Catholics, Hindus and Moslems were its moral equal simply because of that.

Christians can't even agree amongst themselves who is a christian. There are over 3,500 different types of christianity, all purporting to worship the same god, and yet nearly all wars have been between one christian faction and another. For a religion preaching love and peace, Christians sure do hate each other a lot...but that is the nature of bigotry.


MelT