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MARCI MCDONALD>> Well I find to my astonishment that I'm being accused of peddling a conspiracy
theory in the blogosphere, so I find this amusing because I don't think it's a conspiracy
theory at all, and I don't think it's a conspiracy. There are a lot of people in the christian
right who believe that they have been sidelined in public debate for years. This increasing
secularization has lead to the privatization of faith. Of religion. And it's ironic to
hear conservatives talking about the privatization of anything being bad, because they're trying
to privative everything I can see. So the privatization faith they believe has been
bad and they believe there should be a greater voice for religious people in the public square.
And that may be true because everybody should have a voice, but my objection is that. when
religion doesn't merely have a voice in the debate, but is imposing a certain set of principles
on everyone else based on their faith which is exclusionary and intolerant, I think we're
going down the wrong road.