America isn't a theocracy, and more bigotry against gays

Raskin replied: "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution". Apparently the " professor " believed that swearing on the Bible was pertinent in validating swearing to uphold the Constitution. You in your confusion use the professors remarks to state erroneously that, " [ and we don't base our marriage laws on the religious beliefs of anyone ], including the religious righwing." Actually, our civil laws, including civil marriage, are founded in Judeo-Christian Law. There being a couple billion people world-wide who share such belief. The religious right-wing not being the determining factor in Judeo-Christian belief. Your argument that the reason "They swear on the bible to appese theocrats like you. They swear on it to appease the religious right, and to a lesser extent, religious moderates." Is equally erroneous. First because I hold no religion and secondly because the history of swearing on the Bible to affirm the given word has nothing to do with appeasing the religious right. Then in the next paragraph you begin with a quote which claims conservatives are bigots. Not all perhaps but some. Never attributing the same to liberals, suggesting no liberal holds such opinions. So I point out that Obama, chief representative of the American progressive liberal, has only just recently come out in favor of gay marriage [just prior to an election] having stated earlier he held the opinion that marriage was a social contract between man and woman alone. So my point has everything to do with your article. My points simply address your errors of assumption and the material you have chosen to support that assumption to further your constant hate attacks on those other than "liberals".

Yawn. Once again I have no religion and I am not defending any religion. I'm defending the right of others to be free from the ridicule of those like you who only propagate hate. "We are a nation founded upon the Enligtenment." LOL. The age of enlightenment spanned 1650 to 1700 and time has proven that the post-modernist view of "the enlightenment" is anything but enlightened. This nation wasn't founded until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 and our greatest minds at the time were in furious argument with the European Enlightenment. Further, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson followed the doctrines of deism. Most colonial-era Americans, including the enlightened New Englander John Adams, contended that most women lacked the necessary intellect or emotional make up to deal with political issues. The majority of the signatories of the US Constitution were slave holders. By 1791 when the original 13 states ratified the Bill of Rights, they all treated sodomy as a criminal offense. This is your enlightenment. LOL. Those aren't my laws jack ass. They are your laws enacted and defended by your enlightenment. LOL. Normally I wouldn't respond to your garbage but, you profess your hate to be " humanist". As a true humanist I feel duty bound to protect the humanist philosophy from tired, petty, hateful ignoramuses who don't have the simplest most basic understanding of what it means to be a humanist in the first place. People like you who only use the term humanist as a rock from under which to cast their hateful rhetoric against anyone who thinks differently than them. Humanist are committed to free inquiry and who see the value of social systems that promote liberty, we encourage the maximizing of individual autonomy. In this context, we support such freedoms and rights as religious freedom, church-state separation, freedom of speech and the press, freedom of association (including sexual freedom, the right to alternate family structures), a right to birth control and abortion, and the right to voluntary euthanasia. We do not use our thinking on these subjects to ridicule, demean or persecute in any fashion those who haven't adopted our understanding. Humanism is not a tool to bludgeon those who think and believe differently. You are not a humanist. Not anything remotely like one.