Name: Why I, as an atheist, can't vote for Donald Trump
Uploaded: 2018-02-03T08:10:15.000Z
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I would love to tell you all
how to vote in the upcoming election,

Adverbs of degree

You know, "How dare you tell me
to do anything?"

"You're not the Atheist Pope!"
Okay, fine.

But then let me just lay out for you
some reasons why I,

as an atheist who cares about
issues related to atheism,

cannot possibly vote for Donald Trump
in the upcoming election,

despite what some other youtubers
may tell you to do.

I don't want someone in the White House
who denies climate change

or thinks it's a hoax
perpetrated by the Chinese.

I don't want a vice president who
denied climate change for so long.

I don't want a vice president
who still doesn't accept evolution.

I don't want a president who
couldn't even explain evolution.

I don't want a president who believes
this conspiracy that vaccines cause autism,

because there's no
support for that whatsoever,

to Jenny McCarthy's
anti-vaccination group.

I don't want a president who thinks
the Religious Right is persecuted,

you know, as if Christians are the ones
who really have it tough in the United States.

I don't want a president who threatens
to repeal the Johnson Amendment,

which prevents pastors from
endorsing candidates from the pulpit

and wants to take away
their civil liberties as a result.

forcing employees to say "Merry Christmas",
instead of "Happy Holidays",

will solve more problems
than it creates.

I don't want someone who thinks
there really is some war on Christmas.

because they are directly threatened
by conservative Christians.

And Trump wants to put those
Christians in positions of power

so they can undo all the progress
we've made over the past decade.

still, in 2016,
opposes marriage equality,

and Trump does, no matter how much he thinks
he's a friend to the gay community.

I don't want a president to tell transgender people
where they can and can't go to the bathroom.

I don't want a vice president
who tells Christian business owners

they have a special right
to discriminate against gay customers,

had every right to deny gay couples
their marriage licenses

I care about women's rights since it's usually
conservative Christians who opposed them.

And I don't want a president who thinks
women who have abortions deserve to be punished.

I don't want a president who wants
to defund Planned Parenthood

just because they provide abortion services in addition
to all the other amazing things that they also do.

who can't tell fact from fiction and seems
to believe anything someone tells him on Twitter.

If I wanted to hear people
whose best evidence for their beliefs was,

Now, maybe you're hearing all this
and you're just rolling your eyes.

"Okay, Trump is bad, but you're not
giving me any reasons to vote

but she's on the right side of every single one 
of those issues I just mentioned.

That's why she's getting my vote and
that's why I'm going to be proud as hell to cast it.

then, by all means,
I can't wait to read your comments below,

all about why science, and church-state separation,
and LGBT rights, and women's rights

who surrounds himself with people
who have bad ideas.

for anyone who cares
about evidence and reason,

and is worried about the encroachment
of religion into our politics.

And if you believe he's just
playing the part

and he doesn't really believe
any of these things that he's saying,

well just take a look at
who he's surrounding himself with.

I mean, the people pulling
the puppet strings

I don't know how you could look at
the two major party candidates

Anyone who tells you that
is just ignorant.

I know it sounds smart when you say,
"Both major parties are equally bad,

but in their own ways". You know,
it makes it sound like you're above it all.

And by the way, I'm not saying
Democrats are perfect on all of these issues.

President Obama still allows religious
organizations to receive taxpayer money

That's not okay either, and Hillary Clinton
has not said she would put a stop to that.

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