The separation of church and hate

I think this clip from The Daily Show does a great job of depicting the religious hypocrisy in our society (don’t turn it off at least until you see Sarah Palin!).

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I’m always shocked to hear people claim that Obama is a Muslim. There are two major problems with this: 1) So what if he were a Muslim? Where in our Constitution does it say the President can’t be a Quaker (Nixon) or a Diest (Jefferson) or a Unitarian (Taft) … or, maybe one day, a Muslim? 2) Why do some accuse Obama’s policies of being part of an Islamic conspiracy when he is advocating for nothing different than Democrats before him advocated for? People called Kerry a flip-flopper and Clinton a pimp-daddy … but no one accused these white men of being Muslim. Therefore, when someone claims that Obama, a Christian, is really a Muslim — though he has given them no reason to think that — then the only reasonable explanation is that these people are racist at worst and ignorant at best. It would be like calling Reagan a communist because he embraced diplomacy with Gorbachev — how stupid would that sound? Well you know what, people who are saying such things about Obama sound that stupid.