We don’t care what they say in order to get elected in this religious country. We care about what kind of judges they give us on the Supreme Court, because only the Supreme Court determines if we’ll have secular government . . . Don’t look to the rhetoric they need to pander to, remember what country they’re running in. I don’t care what kind of verbal obeisance they pay to religion if that’s what it takes to get a person in the White House who will give us church-state separationists on the Supreme Court.
–Eddie Tabash, 2007, to the Atheist Alliance International
For those that don’t know of Tabash, he is a lawyer in California and is Chair of the First Amendment Task Force for the Council for Secular Humanism. Generally speaking, he’s a very vocal activist for secular humanism.
The comment above was, in Doug Wilson’s words, uttered in a moment of “ill-advised candor.” Tabash was talking about the habit of some secular politicians of parroting some “faith-community” talk in order to get elected to office.
Revealing in more ways than one, don’t you think?
