JESUS BUILT MY CONSTITUTION
Jan. 16th, 2008 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: If elected President, Mike Huckabee promises to replace the US Constitution with a copy of the Bible. Or something pretty close to that effect.
I thought you should know. In case he wins or something.
Okay, the odds of that are slim, especially now that Iowa is looking more and more like a fluke. But as I’ve said before, it makes me nervous when people who want to run the country speak of things like this. Because Huckabee is not an isolated case. Millions and millions of Americans agree with him. And some of them are Congressmen.
In the past two months alone we’ve already seen the House (which, I’ll remind you, is controlled by Democrats now) pass a resolution affirming that Christianity is good (as if this needed govt affirmation) and now has another resolution on the table to designate the first week of May as American Religious History Week “for the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith”. It has 32 sponsors and lists 75 “examples” to prove that America’s leaders were religious people, therefore America is a religious nation, therefore, its govt has the right to actively express its religious beliefs – to include posting the 10 Commandments and nativity scenes wherever it fucking well likes.
There’s a couple of obvious flaws here. One is that many of the “examples” are misleading or downright factually wrong. The other is that you know as well as I do that by “religious” they mean “Christian”. I have 20 American dollars that says the Muslims, Buddhists and Wiccans will get zero joy from the US govt during American So-Called Religious History Week. And if they complain, yr going to see ads on WorldNetDaily for t-shirts saying “Islam [or Buddhism or whatever] is UnAmerican”.
I have another 20 that says that if characters like Mike Huckabee and Randy Forbes get their way, yr going to see some changes around here. And even if yr a straight-edge heterosexual Christian, they’re going to cramp yr style sooner or later.
Especially if you like soy. It makes you gay, you know.
I take my milk like I take my women,
This is dF
I thought you should know. In case he wins or something.
Okay, the odds of that are slim, especially now that Iowa is looking more and more like a fluke. But as I’ve said before, it makes me nervous when people who want to run the country speak of things like this. Because Huckabee is not an isolated case. Millions and millions of Americans agree with him. And some of them are Congressmen.
In the past two months alone we’ve already seen the House (which, I’ll remind you, is controlled by Democrats now) pass a resolution affirming that Christianity is good (as if this needed govt affirmation) and now has another resolution on the table to designate the first week of May as American Religious History Week “for the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith”. It has 32 sponsors and lists 75 “examples” to prove that America’s leaders were religious people, therefore America is a religious nation, therefore, its govt has the right to actively express its religious beliefs – to include posting the 10 Commandments and nativity scenes wherever it fucking well likes.
There’s a couple of obvious flaws here. One is that many of the “examples” are misleading or downright factually wrong. The other is that you know as well as I do that by “religious” they mean “Christian”. I have 20 American dollars that says the Muslims, Buddhists and Wiccans will get zero joy from the US govt during American So-Called Religious History Week. And if they complain, yr going to see ads on WorldNetDaily for t-shirts saying “Islam [or Buddhism or whatever] is UnAmerican”.
I have another 20 that says that if characters like Mike Huckabee and Randy Forbes get their way, yr going to see some changes around here. And even if yr a straight-edge heterosexual Christian, they’re going to cramp yr style sooner or later.
Especially if you like soy. It makes you gay, you know.
I take my milk like I take my women,
This is dF
