Kim - Judaism holds as part of it's beliefs that there is a place in the "world to come" (that's how we refer to Heaven) for the good of **all** religions. That philosphy was best codified by Moses Maimonides, I forget in which writing. So, only Jews are held to observing all the laws and commandments set down in the Torah. Non-Jews get held to a much easier standard, the seven Noahide laws...I forget exactly what they are. So, when Lieberman speaks freely about religion, he's not being threatening, because to us, "salvation" hasn't been made dependant on accepting our religion.

Mind you, that didn't stop some Jewish organizations from complaining, figuring if they were going to condemn Bush for religious language, they had to hit their own too.

As for Ashcroft, one of my biggest fears is that he and Bush may threaten free speech on the Internet again, under the guise of striking at porn. The government has already tried twice, first with the Communications Decency Act, then with itss successor, and got rightly slapped down twice by the courts. Because, they made their definition of "indecent" so wide that someone could have sued Mudcat for hosting the DT, which has a few bawdy songs. Now, the CDA was created by Sen. Exon and signed into law by Clinton...two Democrats! So, given some of the rhetoric I've heard, I'm even more fearful of what two Republicans might do!

. As for the post that started the thread, I did find it funny when it originally showed up in my e-mail. And even funnier when "The West Wing" adopted it!

-- Gary