It certainly appears that the “left” supports “secular humanism” which, in turn, is really atheism flying under a false-flag as would a pirate ship. This “European disease” is endemic, if not epidemic, in those counties of the USA in which Mr. Kerry received a majority of votes in the November, 2004 election and was well represented by him and by the current Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

One of the goals of that movement is to remove religion from the public's hearing and view in all public places (Such as schools and court houses) and to make it a non-factor in the political, social and intellectual life of the United States of America. Such atheists, posing as “secular humanists” have had a great measure of success, in large part, through the rulings of law-making (NOT law interpreting) judicial tyrants.

In Europe this disease is no less epidemic than the Black Plague was and the “action” is from EU and national (Especially in France) bureaucrats who fear or despise Christianity and, in fact, Christ. The extent to which this loathing of Christianity, its thoughts and its followers can be clearly seen in the case of Rocco Buttiglione as described in Mr. George Weigel's most excellent book The Cube and the Cathedral (Basic Books; NY; 2005), TO WIT:

“Judging from the Buttiglione case which roiled European political and journalistic circles
in late 2004, it seems that orthodox Christians are also to be excluded from the new
Europe's public space, or at least, its public offices.

Rocco Buttiglione, a distinguished Italian philosopher and Minister for European Affairs
in the Italian government was chosen by the incoming President of the European Commis-
sion , Portugal's Jose Manuel Durao Parroso, to be commissioner of justice on the new
Commission. Professor Buttiglione was then subjected to a particularly nasty
inquisition by the justice commission of the European Parliament. His convictions about
the morality of homosexual acts and the nature of marriage were deemed by Euro-
-Parliamentarians to disqualify him from holding high office on the European
Commission---despite Buttiglione's clear distinction, in his testimony, between what
he, a committed and intellectually sophisticated Catholic, regards as immoral behavior andwhat the law regards as criminal behavior, and despite his sworn commitment, substan-
tiated by a lifetime of work, to uphold and defend the legitimate civil right of all. This
did not satisfy many members of the European parliament, who evidently agreed with one
of their members in his claim that Buttiglione's moral convictions---not any actions he had
undertaken, and would likely undertake, but his convictions---were in direct contradiction
of European law.”

If you think this is only a “European thing”, then you should reflect on the atheistic attacks made by “secular humanists” on potential or real nominees for Federal judgeships, on President George W. Bush and on a certain Georgia judge who insisted that the public display, in a Court House, of the Ten Commandments was a matter of “the free exercise of religion” and an expression of “free speech” as allegedly guaranteed by the United States Constitution.

In every way possible we must maintain the right to have religion firmly in the public's view and hearing and, as exercises of Constitutional Rights, in public places!