No, he was just pandering.

Does this make Jeb Bush the anti-Christ?

Anti-religious bigotry in your post. I will not throw away my faith to make you feel better.

I have moved away for good from atheism and I will never return to it.
But I will never, ever call atheism evil, idiocy, because everyone has an equal right to a faith or to no faith.

having a public figure talk about imaginary fairies in the clouds SERIOUSLY is extremely scary! These “imaginary friends” they call a god are just delusional things in their heads, that often tell them what to do. I just re-watched the shining…do we want some crazed person who believes in gosts to be making executive decisions? We just got rid of the last theocratic ruler, we should be ridiculing this one.

And facebook user, tolerance is about asking people to leave us alone, to accept that we are normal just like them and to cast away religious based bigotry so they do not teach their kids to hate themselves and do not ask their schools and politicians to do stupid things that curtail our civil rights.

Tolerance of religious idiodicy is not something that you can compare to our civil rights struggle. Religion is an evil, mean spirited and cynical force in our society. It tells people to hate and to break laws…as long as you repent (and pay of course). It makes people hate their female relatives, sell them into slavery and of course it vilifies homosexuals as a cover for what the first christian church was: an exclusive gay sex club for whackos on a power trip.

We WILL NOT tolerate religion! We WILL NOT tolerate bigotry based on lies (or any for that matter).

Asking us to be tolerant for evil and intolerant religion puts you in the camp of those self haters who are not willing to see how harmful their own actions are to our community.

I see others quoting scripture and basically praying on her. Sorry I AM NOT TOLERANT of the fact you have been brainwashed into the hate machine.

I’m from an Episcopal family and I can tell you that their “liberal” moves of the past 20 years or so are completely OPPORTUNISTIC.

These are businesses that take polls and decide what to do to grow and rake in more money.

Our constitution makes sure that our government doesn’t establish or restrict religion (and btw it is much more stronglly worded on the former vs. the latter!)…so I will not advocate laws to end religion, but I will continue to speak out and make sure people know it is whacky, wrong, anti-intellectual and it is a force people are succored into. Not necessarily stupid people, but people who surely have left their brains at the church door.

Tolerance indeed. Not earned, not granted facebook user!

The ocean coastal state of Maryland where I live is bad enough for humidity and heat in August. Plus Maryland laws are fairer to GLBTs than are the laws of Florida. So no need to go to Florida for sun, sand and water if you don’t live in the US southeast.

Sure we don’t have marriage equality yet in MD, but we in MD have as of 2009 gay adoption of kids by both parents instead of by one person only who is not in a straight marriage as it used to be, a law forbidding antigay discrimination in jobs, housing and public accommodation, and an end to the tax on home and property left to a surviving same-sex partner that straight married couples did not have to worry about, hospital visitation for gay couples, etc. Just a few years ago during the previous MD governor’s time in office, most all of these fairly recent protections simply did not exist for gay couples.

But what did exist by way of progay law in our state for some time before the time of the antigay MD Gov. Ehrlich was a MD law against antigay discrimination in jobs, housing and public accommodations.

Again, always confirm all of these laws and protections for yourselves before uprooting yourself and your partner to MD or any other state.

Maryland is certainly much fairer in laws to gay people than neighboring Virginia and most of the southeast down through Florida. Delaware (DE) is suddenly catching up to Maryland in June of 2009 in good progay laws as the antigay lawmakers lose their grip on the DE legislature with the recent death of some of the antigay DE Dixiecrats over the last 2 years plus the recent election of a youngish 30 something progay DE governor Jack Markell. One of the most influential of the antigay Dixiecrats, Senator pro-tem Thurman Adams died in June this year. The same month 4 or so progay DE laws not possible during Adams’ term in office saw the light of day and passed very shortly after his demise. Adams would sometimes send gay bills to Vaughan another antigay Dixiecrat who made sure until his own death 2 years prior that they did not pass. Adams’ antigay Dixiecrat daughter Polly Adams Mervine was defeated at the polls ensuring that the DE Dixiecrat legacy did not survive into the next generation of upcoming DE politicians in Dover. She was defeated by an antigay male Republican who ran to replace her father. His previous seat is likely going to a Democrat. And the next senator pro tem is another antigay Democrat but one is thought to be more realistic and more flexible than a Thurman type Dixiecrat,
who dealt with gay bills by shoving them out of sight into a desk drawer. A practice that was recently no longer permitted. Thus some of those lawmakers who kept Delaware in a very, very slow gay legislative mode with practically no gay protections other than joint adoption of kids by gay couples are no longer here to obstruct progress and the “bottle of progay DE laws has been finally uncorked.”

Maryland and Delaware in addition to improving their standing as increasingly progay states, also have good ocean front beaches. Same for New Jersey, which may or may not be the next marriage equality state some time after the NJ governor elections in November of this year.

It’s better in the northeast. Sure we get the tail ends of destructive hurricanes with high winds,downed lines,trees and pounding rain here. But along with better laws, we don’t live directly in the path of many of them.