Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: religion and public life -- NOW and the Mormon judge Message-ID: <704@opus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 05:09:20 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.704 Posted: Thu Aug 16 05:09:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 01:10:59 EDT References: <2996@ut-sally.UUCP> <229@varian.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 12 >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.