Reply #40: You can't blame all those things on Christianity

[Zebedeo]

Some people are opposed to abortion for reasons that have little or nothing to do with religion. The same for stem cell research. And by the way, since when has stem cell research been "banned"? Aren't you going a little overboard with that characterization? In California, where you live, the voters just passed a referendum allocating a huge amount of government dollars to finance, not just allow, embryonic stem cell research. The issue about homosexual marriage is again not necessarily religion-based. Polls show that most of the public is against it, for whatever reasons. Intelligent design is not religion, and certainly is not a particular brand of religion such as Christianity. It is an area of scientific inquiry, and many well-reknowned scientists, including Albert Einstein, have concluded that the universe was intelligently designed. School vouchers are an education issue, not a religion issue. The biggest supporters of school vouchers are minority parents who live in the inner city. They want good schools for their kids, just like the politicians' kids attend.

The society is not secular, and never has been, and the constitution does not mandate a secular society. It mandates that Congress make no law respecting the establishment of religion -- or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. That hardly sounds like "mandating a secular society."