Look this video is very American and very patriotic, but good grief the issues it raises are so relevant to what is happening here in the UK. Watch this video because it makes the case for secular democracy and why all people, those who hold to a faith, and those of us who don't should support a full seperation of religion and state. I was particularly taken by the part on the injustice of having to delcare your religious beliefs on a job application, because that is what is coming to the UK if we go down the road of faith based welfare:
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April 11, 2007
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