Atheists have chance of becoming president

[longship]

2. Encouraging, but there is still a danger

The "Christian Country" claimers have an interpretation of the First Amendment that is counter to every interpretation from when it was debated in that early congress to the current day. The interpretation the right wing prefers is that one religion cannot be preferred over another but that religion itself can be preferred over non-religion.

You can see this argument behind all of these religious freedom bills at the state level. To then, the Lemon test goes out the door and a law may benefit religion as long as it doesn't benefit a specific one. Of course, this argument fails even their loose interpretations by the facts that these bills are so draconian that it is clear that they favor only the strictest and fundementalist sects over the liberal ones.

I worry for us if Rmoney gets into power and we lose one or two SCOTUS judges due to retirement. If the Supremes adopt the right wing interpretation, good-bye First Amendment religious freedoms as we know them.

To us atheists, this is a very scary and real danger.

Thanks for posting this.