If you've read my blogging once or twice, you're probably well aware that I'm one of the cranky, outspoken atheists who impolitely uses expressions like "Sky Fairy" and applauded PZ Myers throwing a wafer in the trash.* Thus you probably think that I was angry at Kay Hagan for her response to Elizabeth Dole's "godless" ads, which was basically to sue Dole for libel. After all, from a certain perspective, angrily denying an accusation makes it sound like you think being that thing is a bad thing, especially when you deny it as vehemently as Hagan did. Sure, she's not an atheist, but she made it sound like it's a bad thing to be an atheist. PZ is certainly offended, accusing Hagan of throwing atheists under the bus by saying things like, "making false witness against fellow Christians."