Editor: I found a paradox about liberal thinking as it relates to facts and faith and the separation of church and state. Liberals believe the notion of tolerance as being a social good. We conservatives have a similar view as it relates to equal protection under the law.
By what fact do liberals base their ideology that all people should be treated the same? This is not the view of Hinduism that postulates that people are born into inferior or superior ranks and ought to remain that way for life. This is not the belief system of Islam that states that infidels, those who are not Muslims, should pay higher taxes and be second-class citizens in an Islamic society. Communism argued for the superiority of the proletariat class over the bourgeoise (capitalists). Nazis argue that all races are not equal.
These different groups all believe in the inherent inequality of people. Where do liberals get their view? From the very religion they seek to ban from public education – the Bible! It was from it that Thomas Jefferson, even though he was not an orthodox Christian, got the idea that men are all equal. This is based on faith, since our own experience does not show us to be equal because we have different abilities that are superior or inferior to others. Perhaps in the name of church and state, the liberals would like this faith banned from the schools as well. Let's give Adolf Hitler equal time, shall we?
Scott Hurban, Tracy