Our Godless Constitution

[shanek]

Let's try another tack here. The question I have is whether a political candidate being atheist is a neutral position.

Obviously, it isn't.

Think of abortion, if we polled people to ask if they would vote for a candidate that supported abortion we would expect to get some percentage like 40% who say they would and let's say 40% who would not.

Okay. Does that then mean that a candidate that supports abortion cannot be elected?

 

[Lurker]

Shanek:

Ahh, good point. I would opine that if the poll result said that 50% of the populace would note vote for a candidate that supported abortion then the candidate would be nearly unelectable.

It really depends on how the poll is conducted.

Regardless, I see that you agree atheism is not a netral political position so we are on the same page. We may disagree on magnitude and I'll live with that.

Lurker

 

[Kerberos]

Shanek:

Ahh, good point. I would opine that if the poll result said that 50% of the populace would note vote for a candidate that supported abortion then the candidate would be nearly unelectable.

Unless the remaining 50% would refuse to vote for a candidate who opposed abortion, of course we know that this would not apply to atheism.

 

[CFLarsen]

The poll is a 50-50 split.

False. It says that 51% would not vote in favor of an atheist.

For someone who complains about people saying that Badnarik got 0% (as opposed to 0.35% or whatever minuscule percentage he got), this is a rather hypocritical misrepresentation.