text: Governor Otter's attempt to make a distinction between "preference" and "discrimination" is nothing but a silly parsing of words by a politician. When preferences become policy, discrimination is the inevitable result.
  
  Besides being unjust, establishing religious preferences for refugees is bad public policy. The fact that no committed terrorist would hesitate for a moment to pledge allegiance to a particular creed for his own insidious purposes aside, the consequence of this sort of thing will be the dumbing-down of religious faith to a set of simple criteria that might fit on an index card.
  
  I don't want any government official -- least of all the Trump administration -- deciding what defines an adherent of any religion, let alone a Christian. Faith is too rich and too personal and, frankly, none of their damned business.