Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?

[TaraJo]

Well, if you vote Democratic this year you are voting for another four years of high unemployment, business failures, mortgage foreclosures, and out of control spending.

Dude. All that stuff happened under Bush. Remember how he was the president telling us how we needed to bail out the banks? While I don't blame Bush for the banking crash in the first place, I do blame him for his response: save the millionaires and let all those regular folk wind up homeless.

But I guess that's ok with you to keep some kid from praying in school.

That's just it; nobody has ever tried to stop anyone from praying in schools. My boyfriend was raised in a fundamentalist family and he was taught to always pray before he ate, right? So he always prayed over his meal before he ate at school. Guess what? Nobody ever tried to stop him!

Now, if you want to talk about public employees using their position to promote their personal religious beliefs, that's a different discussion, but keep in mind that if it's legal and I'm the teacher, I'll be telling the class to say "Fuck off, Jesus!"

Also, for me, new issues are going to come up; they always do. I know marriage equality is still being fought (although it doesn't impact me, personally, because of the kinda-unique situation between my boyfriend and I). I don't know what issue will come up next, but I do know the religious conservatives have never supported me so why should I support them?