Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site varian.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!varian!fred From: fred@varian.UUCP (Fred Klink) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics,net.legal Subject: Re: religion and public life -- NOW and the Mormon judge Message-ID: <229@varian.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 18:30:53 EDT Article-I.D.: varian.229 Posted: Tue Aug 14 18:30:53 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:21:14 EDT References: <1672@sdccs6.UUCP> <192@uwmacc.UUCP>, <2996@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: Varian, Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 16 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)