Word: demeaningly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Religion does play a very large role in the lives of many Americans, and it is usually a positive one. To say that does not demean atheists, or imply that one cannot be moral without religion. It is like saying that caring parents or close friends play a large positive role in the lives of many Americans. A person who grew up without either can still become a productive, happy and gentle member of society. By the same token, many people who had both kind parents and close friends will fail the test of life...
...case would not have done it. He sends the same message (I love my wife) by his feeling talk about Laura and about the birth of his twin daughters. Presumably Oprah's huge female audience felt some sympathetic vibration on that score. The question is whether it does not demean the entire process to have all of this attention paid to the state of a candidate's marriage. We have Bill Clinton to thank for that - that, and a certain deepening fatuousness in the American political process...