Except that getting elected for office is not a right and saying that a Creationist is not to be trusted with governing is not bigotry.
(Hat-tip: Lindsay)
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Lindsay Beyerstein, aka Majikthise, needs and deserves your help.
Please take a moment to head over to Majikthise and pay your respects to Lindsay, whose father, Barry L. Beyerstein, died yesterday.
I find it very difficult to say something nice, deep, profound or meaningful at the time of sorrow. But I am deeply saddened by the news that Lindsay Beyerstein's father has died.
Well, there are plenty of people who ignore 100+ years of evidence and insist that Communism is a dandy political system - should *they* be banned from running for office? How about a pro-choice, universal-healthcare-supporting, feminist.... Wiccan who happens to believe that her spells and crystals influence the world for peace? Is she to *also* be excluded from the "cool club" of being allowed to run for office? How about those who believe in reincarnation? Oh, I know - what if the concesus was that global warming is *not* anthropogenic - would you then want to bar Al Gore as an "idiot"?
They can run. They cannot be expected not to be ridiculed in the process.