I meant I agree wholeheartedly!

It is a truth that a leader of this country needs to bow to the religious--it is just so.

I THINK- that some only pay lip-service to it.

This is not a bad thing. They are sacrificing a bit of truth for a lot of public good.

the teachings of Jesus. Any of them will do.

That's about half of them that don't believe it right there.

But I can think of quite a few Democrats, including politicians.

She is raising their 4 daughters in Islam. Fine with me. He is an asshole BTW. If he were athiest christian or whaterver he would still be an asshole and my daughters and grandaughters would still be beautiful!f

Probably-but he would not have dogma to back up his assholery.
I believe you, though--an asshole with excuses is double the asshole.

good word! May I borrow it?

"Just at the greatest refuge of a scoundrel is patriotism, so religiosity is the greatest refuge of a hypocrite."

That's a quote from http://messenger.cjcmp.org

speeches, but they remain the exceptions and not the rule.

However, that they did it at all is a sign of progress, imo. I also think that almost removing god from the platform is a sign of progress.

If we keep working on it, I think we will see some much bigger changes in 4 years, including more acceptance and less discrimination against all kinds of religious and non-religious people.