Cripes "Key Democrat" turns into "Pete Stark Gets all atheistic!"

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090827/us-health-overhaul-public-plan/

http://www.examiner.com/x-4275-Secularism-Examiner~y2009m8d28-Pete-Stark-gets-all-atheistic-up-in-the-Blue-Dogs-grill

Sometimes the skeptic in a person just has to make itself known.

Rep. Pete Stark of California is the only openly atheistic member of Congress...ever. He revealed his lack of belief in a supreme being on a survey issued by the Secular Coalition for America in 2007, and became the highest-ranking public official ever to admit to nonbelief.

But since then, Stark's irreligion hasn't been exactly apparent.

Nor should it be--he didn't come to Congress to be an atheist agitator, he came to do, you know, congressy stuff, and he was in office for 34 years before even mentioning the whole nonreligious thing (to be precise, Stark affiliates with the Unitarian Universalists). For the most part, following his "admission," you'd never know Stark had any particularly atheistic bent to him.

Stark admitted to no "god" belief, never named himself an atheist. and never said he was "irreligious!". But, then ya know, health care came up well then, Stark must have no respect for religion or be a communist or must wear panties or something!

To illustrate the absurdity of a claim to the existence of something utterly implausible, Stark played the unicorn card. Sounds like something Sam Harris or PZ Myers would say.

Congressman Stark, we knew you were one of us. We just didn't know how much.

Cindy in Fort Lauderdale