Regarding your editorial suggesting that I am "demanding that the entire nation follow one particular theology" ("Fear and Bigotry in Congress," Dec. 23), I have never even hinted at such a thing.
There are likely multiple explanations for 2016's rise in hate crimes, Levin said, including "particularly sharp and widespread bigotry against particular communities like transgendered and Muslims" and the "emboldenment and mainstreaming of white nationalism".
One is the issue of mental health and this particular killer's apparent religious bigotry.
And on a day when the political news was all about the Ku Klux Klan, he identified the particular variety of liberal-minded bigotry — the "sorority racism" — that afflicts the movie industry.
But I feel prevented from doing so because atheism in public life has become so dominated by a particular breed that ends up dressing up bigotry as non-belief.
"This particular candidate has crossed such lines of bigotry, racism, and xenophobia, of misogyny, that are out of bounds," said Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, who was among the rabbis who walked out.
He accused Southern Protestant churches in particular of standing silent in the face of bigotry.
In the wake of last week's events, attempts to confront racial bigotry need to be renewed and intensified, with particular attention being paid to right-wing groups that propagate hatred on the Internet and elsewhere.
Maher and Harris make a living off bigotry toward religion in general and Islam in particular.
