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	<title>Comments on: Stop Promoting Religion at the Capitol Visitor Center</title>
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	<description>by Hemant Mehta</description>
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		<title>By: Terrell Bennett</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/06/25/stop-promoting-religion-at-the-capitol-visitor-center/#comment-333309</link>
		<dc:creator>Terrell Bennett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Living in Los Angeles, perhaps the most Godless city in the country, most of our congress people are already opposed to this rediculous bill.  I just want to applaud them for their stance.  Religion is probably the most destructive element in the American society.  I personally oppose anything that promotes its continuance.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Living in Los Angeles, perhaps the most Godless city in the country, most of our congress people are already opposed to this rediculous bill.  I just want to applaud them for their stance.  Religion is probably the most destructive element in the American society.  I personally oppose anything that promotes its continuance.</p>
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		<title>By: David D.G.</title>
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		<dc:creator>David D.G.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jesse wrote:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Gabemik – even if your representative is signed on as a cosponsor, it could help to write. If they experience no pushback, they might think their constituents don’t care about the issue.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Oh, I agree completely.  I, too, am in Texas, so I am quite cynical about the whole situation myself.  But I know that, at the polls, an atheist vote carries just as much weight as a religionist vote --- and I am hoping that the politicians know it, too.  Even if they don&#039;t really want to do anything for us, significant pushback should make most of them much less willing to blatantly go against us, just to avoid alienating us so that we vote against them.


~David D.G.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesse wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Gabemik – even if your representative is signed on as a cosponsor, it could help to write. If they experience no pushback, they might think their constituents don’t care about the issue.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, I agree completely.  I, too, am in Texas, so I am quite cynical about the whole situation myself.  But I know that, at the polls, an atheist vote carries just as much weight as a religionist vote &#8212; and I am hoping that the politicians know it, too.  Even if they don&#8217;t really want to do anything for us, significant pushback should make most of them much less willing to blatantly go against us, just to avoid alienating us so that we vote against them.</p>
<p>~David D.G.</p>
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		<title>By: Jesse</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gabemik - even if your representative is signed on as a cosponsor, it could help to write.  If they experience no pushback, they might think their constituents don&#039;t care about the issue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gabemik &#8211; even if your representative is signed on as a cosponsor, it could help to write.  If they experience no pushback, they might think their constituents don&#8217;t care about the issue.</p>
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		<title>By: benjdm</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/06/25/stop-promoting-religion-at-the-capitol-visitor-center/#comment-322628</link>
		<dc:creator>benjdm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I sent:

&quot;I am part of the &#039;We&#039; of the United States. I am part of our one nation. The current National Motto and the current Pledge of Allegiance are divisive, un-constitutional, and un-American. Please vote against this resolution.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sent:</p>
<p>&#8220;I am part of the &#8216;We&#8217; of the United States. I am part of our one nation. The current National Motto and the current Pledge of Allegiance are divisive, un-constitutional, and un-American. Please vote against this resolution.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: bigjohn756</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I sent my &lt;strike&gt;idiot&lt;/strike&gt; representative a letter.  It will do no good at all because he is one of the brainless co-sponsors. What do you expect from Texas where religion is a ring in the nose of the non-thinkers. These people, including the political pawns, will do anything that their religious leaders suggest regardless of what it is. It&#039;s disgusting!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sent my <strike>idiot</strike> representative a letter.  It will do no good at all because he is one of the brainless co-sponsors. What do you expect from Texas where religion is a ring in the nose of the non-thinkers. These people, including the political pawns, will do anything that their religious leaders suggest regardless of what it is. It&#8217;s disgusting!</p>
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		<title>By: Gabemik</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gabemik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To late. My local congress-twit is one of the co-sponsors.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To late. My local congress-twit is one of the co-sponsors.</p>
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		<title>By: David D.G.</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/06/25/stop-promoting-religion-at-the-capitol-visitor-center/#comment-322580</link>
		<dc:creator>David D.G.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah, so this is what the White House was calling you about --- someone saw that you were writing about this and tried to contact you before you could post it!  ;^D


~David D.G.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, so this is what the White House was calling you about &#8212; someone saw that you were writing about this and tried to contact you before you could post it!  ;^D</p>
<p>~David D.G.</p>
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