Atheists in the White House: Hey, we were invited!

Yep, today, BHO is meeting with members of the Secular Coalition for America, an umbrella group of atheists. There is nothing inherently wrong with this of course. Atheists are Americans too. But usually BHO distances himself from them as it doesn't go down well with most of the people who elected him.

Let's look at some members of the Board:

Christopher Hitchens: Hitchens' latest book is titled God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Let's look: "[v]iolent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children." He wrote an entire book slandering Mother Teresa who he called a "fraud" and "Hell's Angel." When conservative evangelical Jerry Falwell died, Hitchens danced on his grave, calling him a treasonous demagogue and saying "it's a shame there isn't a hell for him to go to."

Richard Dawkins: Dawkins isn't as well-read on religion as Hitchens, and called religion "the root of all evil," having apparently slept through his history classes on atheist Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. He equates all religious people with fundamentalist terrorists. He has written of religious moderates, "You nice, middle-of-the-road theologians and clergymen, be-frocked and bleating in your pulpits". He supports the passage of a law banning parents from bringing their children to church. Summing up his nutty views, he has pronounced, "My aim is to kill religion."

Michael Newdow: Newdow is an atheist who won't leave the rest of us alone. During the noughties, he filed two notorious lawsuits. One was brought against California schools for having his daughter say the Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom. Newdow demanded that the words "under God" be removed from the Pledge. The suit was so absurd that even the leftist Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals laughed it out. The second was brought against the U.S. government in an effort to remove the words "In God We Trust" from dollar bills and coins. That case was also thrown out of court.

It's not just the Board of Advisors either. On its website, the SCA lists its crucial issues as, among other things, attacking the Boy Scouts and removing "under God" from the pledge.

Obama prides himself on being tolerant. Guess he'll meet with Pat Robertson next.