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Thanks, OPB! You managed to present a topic that makes the Spring Fund Drive interesting.  This was like two cheerleaders arguing about their makeup.  If one of them had just dropped the F-bomb, (as I suspect they wanted to) it would have been at least a little bit entertaining.

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This mixing of politics and religion makes me VERY nervous. Politics is all about compromise, while religion is all about absolute truth, and I cannot see how the two can be reconciled. Faith is the belief in something in the absence of objective evidence, and faith is even stronger in the face of evience to the contrary. Politics must be the exact opposite. The genius of our democracy is the separation of church and state.

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