Some 300 activists rallied against Kern at the State Capital Tuesday. In comments to AP, however, she stood firm against the criticisms, stating that she was not engaging in hate speech. "I see no reason to apologize for what God says, that homosexuality is a sin," she told AP. "I will not apologize. I did not say anything false. I did not say anything malicious or hateful."

Consider this fact: In every African country in which HIV infections have declined, this decline has been associated with a decrease in the proportion of men and women reporting more than one sex partner over the course of a year-which is exactly what fidelity programs promote.

A few of Apostle of Atheism's salient findings:

* Newsweek magazine ran articles by atheists or articles about atheism in more than half of its issues, 25 out of 49.

* ABC, NBC and CBS ran a total of 51 stories on atheism, an average of one network television story per week.

* 80 percent of feature stories about atheism or atheists had a positive tone, and 20 percent were neutral. None of the stories was negative.

Americans know that leaders are human. The public elected President Grover Cleveland to office in 1884, even as he acknowledged that he was the likely father of a child born out of wedlock. Voters judged him by his long record of public service and moral recovery. Franklin Roosevelt's place in the top rankings of most powerful U.S. presidents is secure -- even with the knowledge of his affair with Lucy Mercer.