Re: Anti-Semitic graffiti in Michael Perelman's town

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:42 AM 8/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
> Ben Wirtschafter, a Democratic candidate for the state Assembly who is
> Jewish, says he has been dismissed out of hand by some voters simply
> because of his faith, including just a few weeks earlier, at a local fair.
> "I was handing out literature. They wanted to know whether I believed in
> Christ. When I indicated that I didn't, they returned the literature and
> said they weren't interested in me."

There was an interesting editorial a few weeks ago on US National Public
Radio, by Scott Simon, not only decrying such attitudes and cheering Al
Gore's willingness to choose a Jew for his running-mate, but also hoping
for the day when even agnostics and atheists would be able to open about
their views of religion.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine