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31 July, 2004
31 July 2004So much for tolerance: David Karp of The St. Petersburg Times reports on the controversy raised after a Tampa City Council member, John Dingfelder, invited an atheist to give the invocation at this week's council meeting. In what seems like a timely rejoinder to the arguments of pro-prayer councils, the fallout in Florida indicates nothing like respect for all faiths: three of the six council members walked out rather than listen to an invocation from someone who does not believe in God; one woman wrote Dingfelder that he had lost her vote (also telling him, "'I also believe there is good in every soul, but I would not invite a rapist or thief to my home for dinner to prove it.'"); and the chairman of Atheists of Florida was the recipient of a hateful message left on his answering machine, telling him he needed "'to be exterminated.'"
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