The 2008 Senatorial election in North Carolina, one of the most competitive in the country as incumbent Republican Elizabeth Dole’s edge over challenging Democrat Kay Hagan in the polls has disintegrated in a matter of months, has just turned into a referendum on civil rights for nonbelievers.
This morning, Dole’s campaign office released an action alert warning her constituents that her competitor would be heading to Boston for a fundraiser, which “will be in the home of leading anti religion activists Wendy Kaminer and her lawyer husband Woody Kaplan — who is an advisor to the “Godless Americans Political Action Committee” and the alert also warns that “Kaminer is also an advisory board member (Woody is the chairman) of The Secular Coalition for America.”
“Kay Hagan is trying to run a campaign in North Carolina that casts her as a moderate but the money that’s paying for it is coming from the left-wing fringe of political thought,” said Dole Campaign Communications Director Dan McLagan. “Kay Hagan does not represent the values of this state; she is a Trojan Horse for a long list of wacky left-wing outside groups bent on policies that would horrify most North Carolinians if they knew about it,” McLagan went on. “This latest revelation of support from anti-religion activists will not sit well with the 90% of state residents who identify with a specific religious faith.”
Any secular person, or even religious person, who does not appreciate having all non-religious Americans collectively tarred and feathered as a “wacky left-wing outside group” whose beliefs and Constitutional rights “would horrify most North Carolinians,” can make a cash contribution to her opponent here.
If you wish to contact Senator Dole’s office and demand the immediate censure, dismissal, and condemnation of Dan McLagan for his obvious personal disdain for the non-religious (12% of North Carolina’s citizens are not religious, and 20% of them “seldom or never” attend religious meetings), her office can be contacted at info@elizabethdole.org for email, 704-633-0014 for her telephone switchboard.
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you know I can pipe down about atheism, and focus more on other aspects of our movement, as soon as we reach the day that accusing someone of atheism is not considered a “smear campaign.”
I fear that firing angry complaints at Dole will accomplish nothing but sate our desire to take some sort of action. If her thoughts echo her sentiments, then we would be lucky if she and her staff would even nod politely. All we can expect from her and her ilk is curt dismissal at best, righteous fury at worst.
*smile and nod politely as we vented our collective ire.