One would think that after arguing on ad-nauseum concerning the false notion that the U.S. Constitution is a religious document and contains many references to God and Jesus that the ill-informed evangelicals would be red faced with embarrassment rather than blue in the face. They don’t seem to be able to admit when they are wrong or ever make any mistakes just like their hero “w.” These hardheaded fundamentalist right-wingers have their minds closed to historical reality and continue to delude themselves into believing there is no “separation of Church and State.” The Federal government has primacy over all state governments regardless what any particular State Constitution says just as it did with Civil Rights and other legislation. They need to cut down on the number of hours of right-wing radio they listen to every day if they ever want to improve their appreciation and understanding of history. They seem to be as out of touch as a rabid UK fan insisting that the Wildcats have the #1 college football team in America, much less in Kentucky. No one is saying that our forefathers wanted a purely secular society but they did agree that we should have a purely secular Constitution and that we should keep government and religion separate. That is a fact. The treaty of Tripoli negotiated by John Adams and approved by Congress specifically states to the Muslim nation that America was not by any means a Christian nation. It couldn’t be more clear. At the time of the writing of the Constitution some argued to include references to God and to pray during their deliberations but our forefathers refused. They insisted on Congress meeting on Sundays and even Christmas day and that mail always be delivered on Sundays so as to demonstrate that the government didn’t show favoritism to any particular religion. They didn’t state that our country or Constitution was ordained by God, but by the common sense and reason of man. They knew that if their new country failed, God would not be to blame but only the people who governed it. Our original money and the pledge of allegiance did not contain any references to God until the 1950’s. So who is changing our founder’s intentions? Our most influential founding leaders were deists who did not accept today’s evangelical view of Jesus as God or founder of this country. Many can disagree with that on religious grounds but none can deny it as a historical reality. This is not a theocracy and we cannot force our own particular view of religion on other citizens through governmental decrees or laws. The government has no right to presume to speak for all its citizens concerning God or religion. That is a simple and enduring Constitutional fact much to the consternation of our present day right wing theocrats. They debated the idea of all these religious issues when writing the Constitution and concluded that we must keep it secular so as to guarantee freedom of and from religion. This issue was settled by our founders but today’s right-wingers refuse to capitulate to reality. It has served us well for over two hundred years. Just because a politician invokes God in a speech does not mean he is speaking for all Americans but when he tries to make a law concerning religion which would speak for all Americans it would be unconstitutional and unworkable. What is it about that simple concept that conservatives have such a problem with? Do they want to legalize forcing their religion on everyone? That will not happen under our present Constitution. We have something called free will and choice. The evangelical agenda may be to force a different Constitution on all Americans but they can’t distort our present one into their Biblical view because history doesn‘t lie. Merry Christmas and God bless all true free choice loving Americans. You too, right wing evangelicals.
Hypocrite anti-abortionists better stop aborting all those fertilized eggs with your birth control pills or Santa won’t bring you anything for Christmas. Love ya!