Utica Progressive

An absolutely amazing post from Daisy at Our Descent Into Madness dealing with Romney’s Mormon speech and the implications of theology in American politics and life.  Easily one of the most well written essays I have found lately.  Here’s a little to whet your appetite.

And it’s not people who think that “freedom requires religion.” It’s not someone who would equate a “believer in religious freedom” with “any person who has knelt in prayer.” It’s not someone who completely discounts atheists, implying that being an American, and appreciating American freedom, requires a belief in his God.

As a woman, an American, a religious person, and a Jew, I trust the atheists, the agnostics, the secular humanists, the intellectuals. To whatever extent that fellow religious people overlap with those groups, I trust them, too. These are my real allies. An enemy of secular values is my enemy, too.

It’s worth the read.