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Subject: Re: 17 yr old jailed after holiday flirt in Turkey Posted on: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:05:16 -0400



EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

> The Reid wrote:
>
>> Following up to "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
>> wrote:

>>>> A Muslim state? Surely Turkey is a secular state? :-)

>>> But more Muslim than it was in the 1920's! (When Turkey gave women
>>> the vote even before the U.S. did.)

>> maybe EU should outlaw "established" churches.

> That was SUPPOSEDLY what the U.S. did in its Constitution, although
> that's hard to believe since Bush came to power paying lip-service to
> "Christian family values"! The fact he manages to toady to the
> "Religious Right" on the one side and Corporate Autocracy on the other
> shows a singular lack of logical reasoning on the part of his
> evangelical adherents. (But then "logical evangelism" would be an
> oxymoron, wouldn't it?)

Especially now that the US Supreme Court said that he could use office
funds to support particular religions. It will be fun if a hidden
Scientologist gets elected.