The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the town of Greece, New York did not violate the Constitution by opening its public meetings with prayers, even though the vast majority the chaplains involved were Christian. How would smug Christians feel if they lived in a nation where they were members of a religious minority?
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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> How would smug Christians feel if they lived in a nation where they were members of a religious minority?
Given how much they already whine when they aren’t a minority (“war on Christmas”, anyone?) I imagine they would be completely unbearable.
I worked at a company with people from a different department whose boss “welcomed” his people to come in early for a daily interdenominational prayer service. These people we really hush hush about how pissed they were about what it took to stay on the good side of their boss.
They showed me all of the religious books available, and I told them I do animal sacrifice in the morning, and asked if it would be OK if I killed a chicken for god in this repurposed conference room.
Another company I worked for had a boss who didn’t like his workers wearing earphones, concerned that they might be listening to satanic music, this being contrary to the interests of this Christian company. He had no response when I pointed out the Jewish members of the corporate board.
AARRRGH! The stupid bastards on the “supreme” court aren’t even *pretending* to read The Constitution any more. They slunk away from the ‘under god’ abomination in the POA, using a technicality to avoid a vote.
I was disgusted by the majority opinion, something to the effect that it was just ritual anyway. Okay, if it’s “Just a ritual” then it’s meaningless and so why the fuck are all the religionists insisting on it? I’ve heard the same ludicrous argument made about ‘under god.’
Every day, we take a giant step backwards, one wonders why we even bothered to have a revolution. I would not be surprised if the supreme jerkwads struck down the Title of Nobility Clause tomorrow.
Well, just as long as the atheists in Greece (NY, of course) get equal time to not-say their not-prayers, everything’s hunky-dory, right ? After all, the separation clause in the US Constitution doesn’t say that things have to be THAT separated ?…
Ain’t «democracy» grand ?…
Henri
You’ve seen the flack in Oklahoma City?
Satanists want to place a statue of Satan next to a depiction of the Ten Commandments near the state capitol. Works for me.
Too bad I’m not in NY. I *do* have ordination papers around here somewhere. I could hold forth on Satanism, Evolution, or Secular Humanism. I could offer up a prayer to the Flying Spaghetti Monster or maybe Steve (my next door neighbor.)
“Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?” – James Madison
Here I thought that was a rhetorical question. Let’s see – the Supreme Court, for one. The city council of Greece, NY, the fucktards in OK …
Ted, could you please post your 9/11 museum cartoon?