2010 Candidate Questionnaire by Secular Coalition for America [ UPDATED]

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Thursday August 05, 2010 · 1:31 PM PDT

2010/08/05 · 13:31

The Secular Coalition for America has released a simple, five-question questionnaire to aid voters in understanding candidates' positions on "church-state separation, religious privilege and the place of Secular Americans in politics and society."

You can download a PDF of the questionnaire on the questionnaire page linked above (I prefer not to link directly to PDFs because of technical problems this may cause some readers). You can then ask your local, state and national candidates to complete the questionnaire and then return it to you or publish it on their campaign website.

How do you feel about this? For reference, the questions are:

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Tuesday July 13, 2010 · 5:52 PM PDT

2010/07/13 · 17:52

The recent Gods and Politics conference in Copenhagen adopted the following Declaration on Religion in Public Life. The conference was the first European event of Atheist Alliance International, and was co-hosted by AAI and the Danish Atheist Society.

It is an interesting read:

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Friday May 21, 2010 · 6:23 AM PDT

2010/05/21 · 06:23

Today is Everybody Draw Mohammad Day (I'd link to the Facebook page, but will not link to Facebook until they revise their irresponsible, privacy-violating new policies and settings).

UPDATE: Here's a link to the main blog page for EDMD:
http://everyonedrawmohammed.blogspot...

This spontaneously generated, grass-roots event was created in response to efforts by a small minority of intolerant Islamic extremists to impose their beliefs on others who do not share their views, or even share their religion - and, in response to the response of many misguided "moderate" and "liberal" believers, who have focused their criticism on the "not-niceness" of non-Muslim cartoonists and animators expressing their free speech rights in nations not governed by Islamic law, and non-Muslim readers exercising the freedom of their eyes to look at cartoons created by non-Muslims, broadcast on non-Islamic stations and published in non-Islamic newspapers in non-Islamic nations. (BREAKING!!!! See my death-warrant-signing drawing of Mohammad below the fold!)

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Friday February 05, 2010 · 9:40 AM PST

2010/02/05 · 09:40

Not one to shy away from opportunities to gratuitously bathe in the warm, pulsing blood of his hapless victims, Dark Lord Jon "Sith" Stewart turned his merciless, unblinking gaze toward the blogosphere yesterday.

What he claims to have witnessed was almost as horrific as the eyeball-searing, unimaginably demonic act of wanton violence he performed - on live, prerecorded cable television, before a more or less audience of barely recognizable, formerly-human zombies - in what can only be called, frankly, "response".

Be warned, the hypertrophied, ultra-visceral clip you are about to witness (and you VILL watch it, and you VILL LIKE IT!!) requires an iron stomach, a hide thicker than the hull of the U.S.S. Constitution, a constitution stronger than, well, the U.S. Constitution...and balls of pure, unalloyed, Pandoran unobtanium.

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Friday November 06, 2009 · 11:28 PM PST

2009/11/06 · 23:28

One of the problems I've had with writing diaries is, there's just so many people more eloquent than I am.

Bill Hicks, for one.

Given the current state of the world, and I heard the news today, oh boy, I thought we all could benefit from a little wisdom from the inner space cowboy himself. I really don't have anything to add, so, I'll let him speak to this moment in time.

It's Just A Ride:

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Monday October 19, 2009 · 5:18 PM PDT

2009/10/19 · 17:18

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers. - President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, January 21, 2009

We, too, are Americans.

There is no doubt that the very nature of faith means that some of our beliefs will never be the same. We read from different texts. We follow different edicts. We subscribe to different accounts of how we came to be here and where we're going next - and some subscribe to no faith at all...

We, too, have values.

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2010 Candidate Questionnaire by Secular Coalition for America [ UPDATED]

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Everybody Draw Mohammad! [UPDATED x5]

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It's Just A Ride

Obama's not afraid - why are you?