(December 8, 2012 at 2:49 pm)A Theist Wrote: The political motivation behind it was to secure the votes of religious Blacks and Hispanics....The Democrats aren't going to lose those votes over the concerns of atheists....that whole uproar over removing the God reference from the party platform was nationally televised and the Dems openly threw you atheists under the bus for the religious vote, and that's not actively despising you?
No.
Keeping the American Taliban out of power makes being thrown under the bus well worth it. It is the sad reality of the day that even Democrats have to pay lip service to the sky terrorist in order to keep the rightwing nuts from using it against them.
Thankfully, it won't be like that forever.