What is it these fundy christianist rightwing nuts don't get? The United States Constitution expressly forbids the establishment of religion. When some politico or preacher who loves Jesus stands up at the city council meeting and invokes the "Lord's blessing in the name of Jesus" on the work of the council, that sure as hell represents an establishment of religion!
Why don't these morons read the New Testament? If there was one thing the legendary Jesus disliked intensely, it was hypocrisy. Thus, he urged those who would follow him not to stand in the public square and pray like the "hypocrites" who wanted their piety to be noticed. In fact, saith Jesus, his followers should go into a closet where no one could see them, pray secretly, and they would get a reward from God, in secret...whatever that means.
In Lodi, California a battle is raging about whether the city council should have an invocation "in Jesus' name" at the beginning of their sessions. The Freedom from Religious Foundation, which righteously fights these kinds of breaches to our Constitution, is on the scene and warns that the dispute may end up in court.
On the other side is the fanatical, rightwingnut bunch of lawyers known as the Alliance Defense Fund who see the United States as a Christian nation where every public meeting should begin with prayer "in Jesus' name."
It is also an organization that knows not truth. According to the Sacramento Bee, Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, made the outrageous claim that "Their organization [Freedom from Religion Foundation] is on a search-and-destroy mission for all things religious."
Bullshit, Mr. Johnson.
What they are attempting to do is ensure that wackos like yourself don't destroy the Constitution and turn our country into a fundamentalist Christian theocracy!
And that is exactly the motive of these rightwing christianist wingnuts? That's why they insist, in this secular, pluralistic society, to foist their particular religious views on the rest of us?
Do they really believe that by nodding to god at a city council meeting means the deity will intervene in that city's business so all goes well, and conversely, if they fail to nod to god, he/she will get pissed off and intervene to screw up the city?
No, of course not.
So, it's a power play; part of the ongoing attack on our Constitution. It also shows an extreme lack of respect for persons who do not believe the same crap they do!
Here's a scary video made earlier in the year...note all the numbnuts who either have not read our Constitution or just plain don't care about it. Actually, for all their talk, they don't give a damn about Jesus either as they fail utterly to follow their "savior's" teachings!
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