A Question of Morality at Moral Monday

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Saturday June 07, 2014 · 5:51 PM PDT

2014/06/07 · 17:51

For the last year or so, left-leaning civic minded individuals have been gathering at the state capitol in Raleigh. These gatherings have been dubbed Moral Monday. As of 2012, Republicans gained complete control of the North Carolina state government. In seven short months they managed to undo 100 years of progress. And they're not done yet. They've attacked unemployment, voting rights, women's reproductive rights, education, and even tried to set-up an official state religion. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

I've attended Moral Mondays in solid protest against what I see as my state government run amok. What I wasn't expecting was that the entire affair is led entirely by overly religious sentiment, and that the "moral" part of Moral Monday is apparently supposed to be based solely on the Judeo-Christian definition of morality. I'm an Atheist. In fact, I rate myself a '6' on Richard Dawkins' spectrum of theistic probability. So when I show up to protest against what I consider to be secular issues (with the exception of the state religion, you can imagine how I feel about that), the last thing I want to hear is sermonizing and the protestations of how "just" our side is because God has ordained it, and so-on and so-forth.

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