April 10, 2005
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THE CONSTITUTION AND RELIGIOUS RADICALS
I. as are many others, am concerned about the Religious Radicals trying to subvert our way of life. These conspirators have managed to seduce otherwise perfectly rational people into supporting them by claiming that for some reason the United States would be better off if it was run according to strict religious principals - their strict religious principals. Their hypocrisy is evidenced by their statements of said principals, which they carefully tailor to suit their audience and their actions which are hardly religious. They piously protect the state from needless expense by giving hospital and medical committees the right to determine when life support should be denied, even if the family objects (At least that's how it is in Texas, due to a law signed by our present president.) while at the same time piously "deciding on the side of life" (Bush again, in a recent speech about Terri Schiavo) if they think the case suits their political agenda.
On a more local level, a new church is just opening in my town. Seats thousands, has a cafeteria, coffee bar, giant TV screens and other amenities as well as a staff of 45-50. That's a single church. and not even from one of the "old" mainstream religious sects. They apparently see their calling as one which guides the whole life of their members. Not surprisingly, they have a political viewpoint.
For more than two hundred years the U.S. has been pretty careful to "make no laws respecting religion or preventing the free exercise thereof" but these radicals have seen how they can make religion work for them in taking political control by seeming to support the concerns of religious groups and by encouraging the fear engendered by an attack which was led by members of a religion which sees Christianity as an enemy and is still pretty much mired in the past.
Now these "wing nuts" have decided to mount a direct assault on the Constitution with a law called the
"Constitution Restoration Act" which stands a pretty good chance of passing.
Look it up here: (or this if you can't link):http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=104&ItemID=7569
See what you think.
Comments (4)
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