Diane Rehm's said that? Good grief...she's so old, perhaps her mind is finally going. She should go read the constitution. But maybe her eye sight is failing too.

>My wife just heard something like this from someone at Diane Rehm's show:
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>"Atheists should lose their civil rights"
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>There wasn't much reaction to this, or maybe we didn't hear it because she just blew her top and came to inform me of the weather.
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>It is known that atheists rank lower than Muslims here (in "you wouldn't like your daughter to get married to a..."). Now if a voice like the one above can come up in the air and stay there pretty much unchallenged, on a syndicated programme which often runs as a mere playlist with nobody in the studio, so no accidental callers in a free-for-all, no triage, calling... then I better shut up before I type my next message from some sort of a camp.