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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: And You Can Just Forget About Zoroastrians! I know that it's old news at this point, and that there have already been a number of diaries on the story, but I feel that it would be criminal for the front page of Daily Kos not to contain at least a brief condemnation of Mitt Romney's appallingly bigoted, stupid, and hypocritical statement that: ". . . based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration. First, it's just out-and-out bigotry for Romney to say that he would apply a religious test when selecting cabinet appointees, and that he would specifically apply that test against an oft-maligned religious community. It's reprehensible, it's transparently an attempt to score points with retrograde GOP primary voters, and Romney should henceforth be shunned by anyone claiming to respect religious freedom. Second, it's incredibly stupid to allocate cabinet positions based on the percentage of Americans sharing a candidate's religious preference. Finally, it's breathtakingly hypocritical for a member of a religious minority -- one who has spent a substantial amount of time attempting to overcome the religious bigotry of his own party -- to then seek to beat up on an even less popular religious group, on the ostensible grounds that they constitue a small percentage of citizens. And it's just as hypocritical for an avowed opponent of quotas in affirmative action to support religious quotas at the highest levels of government. But then, that's Mitt Romney. The protean politician. A man who will say anything and attack anyone if he thinks it'll help him get elected. If he thought that the Muslim vote would put him in the White House, he'd promise to name three Muslim cabinet secretaries, regardless of their qualifications. Alas, Muslims are unpopular now in certain corners of your seedier political parties, so you can count on Mitt to bash away.
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But Zorro-astrians are OK.
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