the first thing that needs to be discussed is the title. i mean, seriously? who you choose to vote for based of the title? it's how a lot of media works. scare people into thinking what they want them to believe. after reading the article, i was not petrified by the fact that this man is running for city council. the pagan lord, mr. halloran, was raised roman catholic and after his father died, he decided he would explore his mother's dutch roots. here we are in the present day and he is known as a king of the New Normandy group. the rest of the article describes paganism and how it plays a part in everyday life as well.
however, one person completely stuck out in the whole article and i loved him for it.
Michael Cromartie, vice president at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, an advocacy group in Washington that advocates a role for the “Judeo-Christian moral tradition” in public life. “It doesn’t matter if the person is a pagan or a heathen — what are they going to do when they get into office?”
it doesn't matter what the religion is because jefferson was right when he called for the separation of church and state in this country. it gave this country freedoms other lands could only dream about. the fact is that people do not make the distinction between a good person in general, a good person is usually christian, or a person who calls themselves christian to appear as a good person. they want to vote a christian or a jewish person into they city council office because as Marissa Lacewell states "it helps make shortcuts to their character: ‘I might not go to church every Sunday, but I think that people who go to church every Sunday are good people.’ ” Finding a shortcut to anything is convenient, but it shouldn't be so when electing people into office.
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