Daily Poll: Do Atheists Deserve Equal Social, Political, and Legal Rights?
Daily Poll: Do Atheists Deserve Equal Social, Political, and Legal Rights? Thursday May 25, 2006 Atheists in America are starting to become more assertive in their demands to be treated as fully equal citizens – and they are taking notes from the gay rights movement which has made such great strides in the past three decades. Gay rights activists have been enormously successful, and perhaps that’s why religious conservatives aren’t happy about atheists’ new efforts. Daily Poll: Do atheists deserve equal social, political, and legal rights? • Yes, there’s nothing about atheism which should cause atheists to be treated as inferiors. • Atheists deserve legal equality, but they don’t deserve to
Atheists in America are starting to become more assertive in their demands to be treated as fully equal citizens – and they are taking notes from the gay rights movement which has made such great strides in the past three decades. Gay rights activists have been enormously successful, and perhaps that’s why religious conservatives aren’t happy about atheists’ new efforts. Daily Poll: Do atheists deserve equal social, political, and legal rights? • Yes, there’s nothing about atheism which should cause atheists to be treated as inferiors. • Atheists deserve legal equality, but they don’t deserve to be treated as social equals. •
