Stan, as a liberal Democrat, I hold no hostility to your beliefs. In our country, you are welcome to them and protected in your right to promote them. I happen not to share many of them, and that is my right too. I'm a firm believer in the separation of church and state. If you have a quarrel with that doctrine, then you ought to say so. If the democratic platform doesn't suit you, you're a Republican. But if the outcome of an election doesn't go your way, that's too bad. This is not theocracy.

Bill Ferguson