Religious right suffocates democracy

WHY DO religious persons assume it's their right to bring their insights into the public forum ("A deriding of the religious right," letter, Dec. 16)? These insights are prejudiced doctrine that suffocate democracy's progression toward truth.

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Religion is the hand that holds the skirts of democracy in its attempt to keep it stationary and fit it neatly into the box theology has designed for it.

Environmentalists or anti-smoking advocates work in an effort to make the world a better place for humanity and truly seek the public good as their aim, not to convert the hearts and minds of humans, but provide humans clean air and clean water. To compare these divine works with religious aims is to mislead.

Let your hand go, theocrats, democracy wants to dance.

LISA GROSS
Orleans