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From: fred@varian.UUCP (Fred Klink)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics,net.legal
Subject: Re: religion and public life -- NOW and the Mormon judge
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 18:30:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 18:30:53 1984
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Regarding Prentiss Riddle's comments on the Mormon judge and
NOW-- I would go one step further:  I object to James Watt's
(for example) policies because *I disagree with them*.  I don't
care if their origin is religious conviction or pragmatic
economic thinking.  We all carry our biases and prejudices
in every thing we think and do.  The basis of democracy is
to allow the biases and prejudices of the majority to be used
in governing a nation.

The point is, our system has a means for removing those public
figures we disagree with: the vote.  When we begin to accept
other systems (e.g. "throw the bum out, he's a born-again Christian
and bases policy on his religion!"), we are truely in trouble.

		Fred Klink (Varian, Walnut Creek CA)