HRes 888 the Religious right is at it again
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
House Resolution 888 - The religious right are at it again
Posted by Pariahjane
In the never ending attempt to ignore our Constitution, the religious
right seem hellbent on revising American history so that we are a
'Christian Nation'. I received an alert from Secular Coalition
regarding this resolution.
Flush with last year's success in passing H.Res. 847, "Recognizing
the importance of Christmas and the Christian Faith," Christian
nationalists -- those who would have the United States be governed as
a Christian theocracy -- are pushing H.Res. 888, another resolution
which promotes a false and distorted "Christian nation"
reinterpretation of our history.
Additionally, the resolution rejects constitutional requirements
that government not establish religion. It calls on "our Nation's
public buildings and educational resources" to be permitted to spread
its specific revisionist history.
I'm starting to feel like a broken record when it comes to this
subject. Folks, America is not a Christian theocracy. We are not one
nation under god (we can thank Senator McCarthy's paranoia for that
silly little slogan). I fail to see how anyone will benefit from
America becoming a theocracy. After all, there are so many different
types of Christian followers out there and we can only be one, so what
will be? Baptist? If you're not baptist, you can kiss your rights
goodbye. That includes all you 'other' Christians.
This resolution is packed with nonsense. It cherry picks history (at
best) and distorts it (at worst). Of course nothing is mentioned about
some of the founding father's being Deists and makes the assumption
that the term 'Creator' or 'God' is specifically the Christian god.
The Secular Coalition goes into depth about the absurdity of this
resolution.
We have seen the religious right attack science education in order
to impose their theological beliefs on public school science
curriculum. This is the first official attempt to encourage
theological beliefs to interfere with accurate education about our
nation's history.
This is unacceptable - we all know that history is written by the
victors. I never thought I would see the day that my own history would
attempt to be re-written in order to serve the interests of religious
majority. It's just so... un-American.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation
of Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is
why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v.
Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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