{"id":787,"date":"2008-11-14T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/787"},"modified":"2008-11-14T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T13:29:38","slug":"nice-to-know-where-i-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/787","title":{"rendered":"Nice to know where I stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Oppenheimer in Slate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2204472\/\">gives odds<\/a> about what the next minority group will be to win the White House. Looks like even without those Burning Man photos floating around the Net my chances are slim:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The atheists:<\/strong> When the lion lies down with the lamb, when the president is a Republican Muslim and the Democratic speaker of the House is a vegan Mormon lesbian, when the secretary of defense is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religioustolerance.org\/jainism.htm\">Jain<\/a> pacifist from the Green Party, they will all agree on one thing: atheists need not apply. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/26611\/Some-Americans-Reluctant-Vote-Mormon-72YearOld-Presidential-Candidates.aspx\">2007 Gallup poll<\/a> found that 53 percent of Americans would not vote for an atheist for president. (By contrast, only 43 percent wouldn&#8217;t vote for a homosexual, and only 24 percent wouldn&#8217;t vote for a Mormon.) As Ronald Lindsay, executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism, told me in an e-mail: &#8220;Atheism spells political death in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed. Only one current congressman has confessed to being an atheist: Rep. Pete Stark, a Democrat from the lefty East Bay region of Northern California. If he ever ran for president, he would need God&#8217;s help just as surely as he wouldn&#8217;t ask for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose I can take solace that Stark happens to be <em>my<\/em> congressman. So at least I&#8217;m represented. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2008_11\/015654.php\">Political Animal<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Oppenheimer in Slate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2204472\/\">gives odds<\/a> about what the next minority group will be to win the White House. Looks like even without those Burning Man photos floating around the Net my chances are slim:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The atheists:<\/strong> When the lion lies down with the lamb, when the president is a Republican Muslim and the Democratic speaker of the House is a vegan Mormon lesbian, when the secretary of defense is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religioustolerance.org\/jainism.htm\">Jain<\/a> pacifist from the Green Party, they will all agree on one thing: atheists need not apply. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/26611\/Some-Americans-Reluctant-Vote-Mormon-72YearOld-Presidential-Candidates.aspx\">2007 Gallup poll<\/a> found that 53 percent of Americans would not vote for an atheist for president. (By contrast, only 43 percent wouldn&#8217;t vote for a homosexual, and only 24 percent wouldn&#8217;t vote for a Mormon.) As Ronald Lindsay, executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism, told me in an e-mail: &#8220;Atheism spells political death in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed. Only one current congressman has confessed to being an atheist: Rep. Pete Stark, a Democrat from the lefty East Bay region of Northern California. If he ever ran for president, he would need God&#8217;s help just as surely as he wouldn&#8217;t ask for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose I can take solace that Stark happens to be <em>my<\/em> congressman. So at least I&#8217;m represented. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2008_11\/015654.php\">Political Animal<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}