Atheists Face Discrimination On A Shocking Level (INFOGRAPHIC)

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13. Here you go...

Link to original story from 2006, with the charming title "The Left's Own Religious Whackjobs" by Melinda Barton:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/The_lefts_own_religious_whackjobs_0422.html

The religious nutballs on the extreme right have kept us rational lefties so busy that we've neglected an important although onerous duty -- cleaning the atheist whackjobs out of our own attic, the extreme left...

Why face off with the atheist whackjobs? Because extremism is extremism is extremism. No rational movement dedicated to intellectual courage and honesty should maintain a relationship with those for whom intellectual laziness, dishonesty, and cowardice are a way of life. Doing what must be done to insure the integrity of the left will require identifying our extremists, countering their mythologies, and acknowledging the dangers they pose to a truly liberal society...

It just gets better from there. /sarcasm

Link to one of the DU archived threads on the subject. You'll probably find more with some searching on the site:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1007330