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Originally Posted by nexxo
Yeah, but gay marriage is not legal. Thin end of the wedge?
Although religion is forced on people in extreme Islamic states, and not in the US, I don't think that's the point Cathar tried to make. The fact is that religion (and its specific values) are used as an argument for voting for one candidate and not the other. It is such statements that make the whole war against terror seem like a religious war, extremist vs extremist, rather than a conflict between those who believe in personal freedom and democracy, and those who don't. As you said, the two opponents are not comparable, but to all appearances they make very similar noises.
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Thanks for explaining my point of view more clearly nexxo. That is indeed what I was trying to say. Not that Islamic states and the USA are identical in terms of a forced religion, but that from the rhetoric that gets thrown about resulting in a clouding of the relative distinctions in terms of divorcing religion from the state, at least from a street level in the Middle East point of view.