In a recent thread, one member of our community, affectionately- but correctly- referred to as a 'certifiable idiot,' posted this:
"Liberals are not a monolithic bloc like the TPers. They range across the spectrum of religions and degrees of devoutness ... The individual right to believe (or not) is what is respected amongst liberals. They all have their own moral codes but they don't go around condemning others who don't believe as they do...". http://www.usmessageboard.com/religion-and-ethics/364886-reason-vs-morality-10.html#post9437302
Then, there is this:
1. "What is the most emphatic prohibition in the entire Constitution?
2. [All the various limits] are weak beer compared to the clause that says: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
3. “No . . . ever . . . any.” It’s not only the most emphatic statement in the entire Constitution but probably in all of American law.
4. ....cannot make religion, or the lack of it, a condition of holding public office in our country. Many who fled to America knew all about religious tests. So this is not in the Bill of Rights or any other amendment to the main document. It’s in the main body of the Constitution. It is American bedrock.
5. .... The New York Times ought to be ashamed of itself for running an advertisement attacking the religion of the five Catholic justices of the Supreme Court. It did this last week in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision.
a. The ad actually contained the phrase “Roman Catholic majority.” It named Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
6. .... went on to accuse the Catholic justices in the majority in the Hobby Lobby case of siding with “zealous fundamentalists who equate contraception with abortion,” a statement that combines bigotry with factual inaccuracy.
a. Hobby Lobby actually already happily covers most contraceptives. It objects only to drugs that, rather than preventing an egg from being fertilized, stop a fertilized egg from developing into a baby.
7. The ad calls for the repeal of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which curbs the federal government from overly burdening religion with laws and regulations. The Times ad suggests the government should to be able to burden religion.
8. President George Washington in his farewell address..... called religion one of the “indispensible supports” to “political prosperity.” He warned that “reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”... The ban on religious tests was a contrast with England, where one had to be a Protestant Christian to be in Parliament.
9. .... not enough for the Democratic Party intelligentsia. It has been railing about Hobby Lobby for months. Joy Reid on MSNBC complained about the “six Catholic justices,” adding: “The question is do you trust this court to make those decisions?”
a. The American people are not dumb. They are increasingly seeing this kind of thing for what it is, a bigotry all its own.
10. One legal blog, the Volokh Conspiracy, this week ran a ...“It’s no coincidence that three of the four dissenters in Hobby Lobby were Jews with limited attachment to their religious heritage,” ... to mock the anti-Christian comments he was reading.... “attacking a fully secular Supreme Court opinion on the grounds that its authors happen to be Catholic should be well-out-of-bounds.”
11. Democrats in Congress are already scrambling to find a way to overturn the Hobby Lobby decision via legislation. If they fail, what will they do next — campaign against allowing Catholics on the Supreme Court in the first place? It wouldn’t be surprising were they cheered on by The New York Times."
Attack on Catholic Judges Breaches the Bedrock Of U.S. Constitution - The New York Sun
Vote Democrat and you are lending your support to bigotry.
"Liberals are not a monolithic bloc like the TPers. They range across the spectrum of religions and degrees of devoutness ... The individual right to believe (or not) is what is respected amongst liberals. They all have their own moral codes but they don't go around condemning others who don't believe as they do...". http://www.usmessageboard.com/religion-and-ethics/364886-reason-vs-morality-10.html#post9437302
Then, there is this:
1. "What is the most emphatic prohibition in the entire Constitution?
2. [All the various limits] are weak beer compared to the clause that says: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
3. “No . . . ever . . . any.” It’s not only the most emphatic statement in the entire Constitution but probably in all of American law.
4. ....cannot make religion, or the lack of it, a condition of holding public office in our country. Many who fled to America knew all about religious tests. So this is not in the Bill of Rights or any other amendment to the main document. It’s in the main body of the Constitution. It is American bedrock.
5. .... The New York Times ought to be ashamed of itself for running an advertisement attacking the religion of the five Catholic justices of the Supreme Court. It did this last week in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision.
a. The ad actually contained the phrase “Roman Catholic majority.” It named Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
6. .... went on to accuse the Catholic justices in the majority in the Hobby Lobby case of siding with “zealous fundamentalists who equate contraception with abortion,” a statement that combines bigotry with factual inaccuracy.
a. Hobby Lobby actually already happily covers most contraceptives. It objects only to drugs that, rather than preventing an egg from being fertilized, stop a fertilized egg from developing into a baby.
7. The ad calls for the repeal of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which curbs the federal government from overly burdening religion with laws and regulations. The Times ad suggests the government should to be able to burden religion.
8. President George Washington in his farewell address..... called religion one of the “indispensible supports” to “political prosperity.” He warned that “reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”... The ban on religious tests was a contrast with England, where one had to be a Protestant Christian to be in Parliament.
9. .... not enough for the Democratic Party intelligentsia. It has been railing about Hobby Lobby for months. Joy Reid on MSNBC complained about the “six Catholic justices,” adding: “The question is do you trust this court to make those decisions?”
a. The American people are not dumb. They are increasingly seeing this kind of thing for what it is, a bigotry all its own.
10. One legal blog, the Volokh Conspiracy, this week ran a ...“It’s no coincidence that three of the four dissenters in Hobby Lobby were Jews with limited attachment to their religious heritage,” ... to mock the anti-Christian comments he was reading.... “attacking a fully secular Supreme Court opinion on the grounds that its authors happen to be Catholic should be well-out-of-bounds.”
11. Democrats in Congress are already scrambling to find a way to overturn the Hobby Lobby decision via legislation. If they fail, what will they do next — campaign against allowing Catholics on the Supreme Court in the first place? It wouldn’t be surprising were they cheered on by The New York Times."
Attack on Catholic Judges Breaches the Bedrock Of U.S. Constitution - The New York Sun
Vote Democrat and you are lending your support to bigotry.
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