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What population stabilization requires: restrict annual immigration to the U.S.

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The godless, naturalistic worldview of secular humanism does not logically compel us to adopt a left-of-center viewpoint on every political issue. Aside from the nonnegotiables--church-state separation and protecting the freedoms that many religious people do not want us to enjoy--nonbelievers may differ on many social and political questions. Notwithstanding the arguments I shall present in this article, I need to stress that ethical and thoughtful people who reject the supernatural can disagree with one another in good faith as to whether or not restricting immigration is a proper approach to reducing U.S. domestic population growth.

After, a lifetime of fighting the religious Right, I now find myself struggling against a faction on the Left that seems no less impervious to reason. Many on the Left insist that no one can maintain a principled commitment to reducing immigration as a means of stabilizing runaway U.S. population growth without being a racist. To make this claim is to commit the same error that religionists do when they assert that no atheist can have...

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