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Posted by: OnceMore ( )
Date: April 03, 2012 10:44AM

Mitt Romney has been talking like he wants to grant more privileges to religion. No wonder LD$ Inc. likes him.

PZ Myers takes Romney to task for his tendency to give religions a pass in all things.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/04/03/obama-is-a-secularist-just-like-hes-a-socialist/

Sorry for the long link. The wording in the link is a bit misleading, since the post is more about religion than anything else.

Romney says, "I think there is in this country a war on religion. I think there is a desire to establish a religion in America known as secularism.

They gave it a lot of thought and they decided to say that in this country that a church — in this case, the Catholic Church — would be required to violate its principles and its conscience and be required to provide contraceptives, sterilization and morning after pills to the employees of the church. … We are now all Catholics. Those of us who are people of faith recognize this is — an attack on one religion is an attack on all religion."

Excerpt from PZ's post: "To argue that religious organizations, in their dealings with the profane material world in payroll and insurance and taxes (and in getting financial support from our secular government), ought to also abide by the laws in those dealings, is not an attack on religion. Romney is apparently one of those people who wants to bestow all kinds of special privileges on the churches…but then, that’s his whole life, privilege."

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