| When Day began his career in federal politics, he had already established a reputation as a budget slayer and theocrat at the provincial level in Alberta. |
| The leader of the largest atheist nation was even afforded a rare audience with Iran's top theocrat, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. |
| He was not a theocrat but a pluralist who lobbied for equal voice for all in the public square. |
| Their strident assessments notwithstanding, Neuhaus is not a fundamentalist or a theocrat. |
