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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the place to find &#8220;reason&#8221;able                              politicians.
Together We Can Be Heard!
Enlightenthevote.therudenews.com is a non-partisan political action            [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;the place to find <em>&#8220;reason&#8221;</em>able                              politicians.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #63b932;">Together We Can Be Heard!</span></h3>
<p>Enlightenthevote.therudenews.com is a non-partisan political action                              committee working to get Atheists elected to office because we believe the Atheist is intellectually superior to the rest of the world that believes in god. In fact, we believe that any American who believes in god should not be allowed to hold public office.                              We will support secularists but they need to know their place before they open their mouth and we don&#8217;t want to see them sneaking in prayers or thanking god.</p>
<p>We are dedicated                              to what is commonly referred to as &#8220;<strong>state-church separation</strong>&#8221;                              issues, specifically those concerned with the Establishment                              Clause of the First Amendment which states that &#8220;Congress                              shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.&#8221; The part that says &#8220;or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech&#8221; can go to hell.</p>
<p>We oppose all                              government programs, violations and special rights                              for religious individuals, groups and organizations. No private school vouchers for minority children as we will indoctrinate them with the proper thinking, no homeschooling as it turns kids into dorks and our public school teachers can&#8217;t have sex with them, no organized prayers in public as we don&#8217;t want to see your superstitious asses praying in Outback while we are trying to chomp down a Bloomin&#8217; Onion and <strong>no</strong> faith-based initiatives and laws exempting the religious from abiding by federal and state civil rights, health and safety laws. This means no tax exempt status, you must promote gay preachers and you must marry homosexuals or you will be sued for discrimination. Churches have some deep pockets and we liberals can&#8217;t live off of Comedy Central forever.</p>
<p>Smarter Americans (non-religious) are a sizeable voting cabal in America. If organized with the other separate but equal voting blocs in the Democratic party, we can make our voting strength work for us at the polls by electing politicians who don&#8217;t have to pretend to like church and all of that bullshit.</p>
<p>We need leaders who value science as we <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">manipulate it</span> interpret it, critical thinking about conservatives and reasons why liberals need more tax dollars. I mean, you don&#8217;t expect us to <em>earn</em> fuckin&#8217; money by working shitty jobs right?</p>
<p><a href="http://gampac.wordpress.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13" title="enlight" src="http://enlightenthevote.therudenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/enlight.jpg" alt="" width="744" height="196" /></a></p>
<p><em>To Endorse or                              Not To Endorse</em></p>
<p><em>From the Executive                              Director:</em></p>
<p><em>A few years ago I attended a fundraiser for Senator                                Pat Leahy. Enlightenthevote.therudenews.com</em><em> was then called                                the DORKPAC and Peter Nuhn-ya and I took our DORKPAC                                donation check to the D.C. event. I spoke                                briefly with Patrick Leahy, and we took a photo and                                then Peter and I made like babies and aborted.</em></p>
<p><em>A week later our donation check was returned to DORKPAC. That was shocking to me. I didn&#8217;t think that                                would ever happen, but it did. The senator                                didn&#8217;t want people knowing about our donation, and                                that an Atheist pac was supporting him. So what if the President of my other Atheist PAC <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O%27Hair#The_missing_years">tried to defect to the Soviet Union</a>? Ugh! Red Scare is for peasants.<br />
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<p><em>Are we really that poisonous to politicians? I mean, Atheists do <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O%27Hair#The_murder_revealed">sometimes murder our own pac presidents</a> but WTF? Shit happens. Are                                we really that powerful, even if in a negative way? (You know, no praying in public, no god BS in schools, no private schools for underprivileged kids who might earn their way out from under us, etc&#8230;)<br />
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<p><em>What should we do if a politician asks us NOT to                                endorse him/her at our site? Can we be an effective                                political action committee if those politicians                                who we want to support, don&#8217;t want it? (Someone told us to &#8220;take a hint&#8221; and then mentioned &#8220;Single White Female&#8221; I didn&#8217;t get it.)<br />
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<p><em>In 2002, we launched our pac, GAMPAC (Godless Americans Political Action Committee; Isn&#8217;t that bitchin&#8217;?) with a press conference                                at the National Press Club in Washington DC, and                                a reporter asked me what we would do if a politician                                did not want our endorsement? I told the reporter                                that if the politician didn&#8217;t want our endorsement                                then the politician would not get our votes or money.                                If we cannot endorse a candidate then we cannot                                drive votes and money their way.<br />
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<p><em>It&#8217;s not that some politicians don&#8217;t want <span style="text-decoration: underline;">our</span></em><em> support &#8211; it&#8217;s more that they don&#8217;t want the backlash                                from the religious. The religious will rise up and hold an Inquisition on the D.C. Mall. The religious are a better-organized                                and better-funded political machine than we are                                and that is what most politicians respond to. If                                we were better organized than the religious then                                politicians would be actively pursuing our support.                                If we put a lot of money behind the candidates who                                we support, and if we work to elect them, then we                                will become the voting bloc that candidates will                                listen to and to hell with the religious. The whole bunch of peasants believing in men in the sky will be ruled by us and we will tax the bejesus out of them.<br />
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<p><em>So back to my original question. To support or                                not to support &#8211; that is the question.(Shakespeare makes us sound sophisticated)  The answer                                is that we should support as long as we can make                                it beneficial to candidates and we can do that if                                you vote for the candidates we endorse and if you                                contribute to EnlightenTheVote.therudenews.com. Our endorsement                                should benefit candidates. When you contribute to                                Enlightenthevote.therudenews.com we donate to candidates&#8217; campaigns                                and they know that<strong> </strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">enlightened Americans</span></em><em> are organized                                to support them.</em></p>
<p><em>It is also important to donate your time to work                                on the campaigns of these candidates. This is what                                the religious do. That&#8217;s why the right lost 2008 because every McCain/Palin office was filled with religiouses.  In fact, there isn&#8217;t anything                                the religious won&#8217;t do to get their candidates elected                                to office. But 2008 they threw away on purpose, just to lull us into a false sense of security.<br />
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<p><em>Without your <span style="text-decoration: underline;">donations</span></em><em> to Enlightenthevote.therudenews.com                                and your work for the campaigns we support, some                                politicians may continue to be wary of our endorsement. We especially need those donations. <a href="http://atheists.org/blog/2008/05/02/important_american_atheists_has_a_new_pr">I got fired from my American Atheist job</a> and I really want another hybrid so I can look more moral than my Catholic neighbors.<br />
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<p><em>Atheists and other secular Americans are going                                political and we are going to be successful. I mean just not believing in god is not enough we have to kick his ass.<br />
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<p><em>We are gearing up for the 2010 elections now. With                                your <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">money for my boob job and facelift</span> support we will elect politicians who support                                the separation of state and church and the noble                                words of the Establishment Clause, &#8220;Congress shall                                make no law respecting an establishment of religion and fuck the next part.&#8221;                                Please donate to Enlightenthevote.therudenews.com today. Please                                tell your friends about EVTRN and help by spreading                                the word. Let&#8217;s not regret another election year. (Like 2008)<br />
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<p><em>Thank-you,</em></p>
<p><em>EnlightenTheVote.therudenews.com</em></p>
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