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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: religion and public life -- NOW and the Mormon judge
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 05:09:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 16 05:09:20 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*...

Right.  Religion DOES become an issue for me when Watt (again, for example)
tries to justify his actions on the basis of religion.  At that point, I
say that he's out of his role as a public official.  I don't care what his
private beliefs are, but they're not what he should be using to justify his
actions.  (This is a particularly sore point wrt non-elected officials.)
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.