August 27, 2003

So what do we make of this?

The new CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll found 77 percent of the 1,009 Americans interviewed earlier this week disapproved of U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson's order to remove the monument. [full story]
So did they take this poll outside of a church, or does this mean that the number of Muslims, Wiccans, Satanists, Scientologists, agnostics and atheists* in the US is approximately 23% of the population?

attribution: Boots and Sabres

*I purposefully left Hindus, Buddhists, and Taoists off the list because I have found that members of such religions are very tolerant of other people's rights to publicly practice different religions.

Posted by Tiger at August 27, 2003 09:55 PM | TrackBack
Comments

I don't have much to add, other than I would make a very uncomfortable dinner guest for 77% of Americans.

Posted by: Norbizness at August 27, 2003 11:56 PM

I'm an agnostic myself, but I think the whole thing was pretty silly, albeit consistent with the even sillier body of case law known as (selective) incorporation. I've never even been to Alabama, so what do I care if their Supreme Court's Ten Commandments monument happens to be displayed a little more prominently than the one in front of the U.S. Supreme Court?

Posted by: Xrlq at August 29, 2003 04:06 PM