It's the Constitution stupid!
| By BingVanGorden - Oct 1st, 2007 at 12:30 pm EDT |
Oh, America, we need a history lesson.
John McCain just lost the sliver of respect that I had left for him. Being a non-beliver and fearful of organized religion I always cringe when I see a public official pander to religious groups. I get absolute beside myself with rage though, when that pandering leads to asinine statements like McCain suggested. That there should be a religious test of sorts. In his view only a Christian who shares his views makes him comfortable as President. I understand that desperate people will say anything to get elected. But trying to rewrite our history and the Constitution really pisses me off.
McCain should know better and probably does. What does it say about our times that people are willing to put their hand on their holy book and swear to uphold a document they find to be inconvenient and outdated?
Call me an alarmist, I'm merely paying attention which is more than most Americans do, but this trend of dismissing the backbone of our democracy, the document that protects our freedoms from tyranny of the majority, has me looking towards Canada. But I'm no coward, I'm going to stay and fight these right wing religious zealots.
It has become more and more apparent judging by the words that come out of Republican's (and some Democrats) mouths that we need to seriously revisit our Constitution.
Free speech is under assault by politicians who forgot their oath. They believe they are some kind of moral avatars who have to tell the ignorant electorate what to think and how to act. The ethically and morally bankrupt try to legislate to us what is ethical and moral. The part of less government intrusion apparently now prefers the government to tell them what's offensive.
They still insist that there is no right to privacy guarantee when it comes to a woman's body, despite the 4th Amendment's protection that we be secure in our own person's.
The writ of habeas corpus and the Geneva conventions which we ratified decades ago are now quaint. And what's more alarming Republicans now trust the government to decide when they are justified in using it.
Who needs separations of powers any more? Why not allow the executive branch to do what ever they desire using the awesome power of government to do things in secret, with no oversight or accountability?
In other words, who needs the Constitution anymore, we have conservatism now. These guys really should be called the anti-constitutionalists. Let's face it they want this to be a Christian nation, whatever that means, it depends on which denomination you ask. They don't want free speech when it's inconvenient. They will ignore laws and precedent to achieve their vision of what they perceive to be what America should be. Not what the Constitution says, but what they envision.
These same people envision a lot, like Iraq for instance. They envisioned all kinds of great things that never came to be. Which is why we have a constitution in the first place. To protect us from idiots who think they know what's best for us.
John McCain just lost the sliver of respect that I had left for him. Being a non-beliver and fearful of organized religion I always cringe when I see a public official pander to religious groups. I get absolute beside myself with rage though, when that pandering leads to asinine statements like McCain suggested. That there should be a religious test of sorts. In his view only a Christian who shares his views makes him comfortable as President. I understand that desperate people will say anything to get elected. But trying to rewrite our history and the Constitution really pisses me off.
McCain should know better and probably does. What does it say about our times that people are willing to put their hand on their holy book and swear to uphold a document they find to be inconvenient and outdated?
Call me an alarmist, I'm merely paying attention which is more than most Americans do, but this trend of dismissing the backbone of our democracy, the document that protects our freedoms from tyranny of the majority, has me looking towards Canada. But I'm no coward, I'm going to stay and fight these right wing religious zealots.
It has become more and more apparent judging by the words that come out of Republican's (and some Democrats) mouths that we need to seriously revisit our Constitution.
Free speech is under assault by politicians who forgot their oath. They believe they are some kind of moral avatars who have to tell the ignorant electorate what to think and how to act. The ethically and morally bankrupt try to legislate to us what is ethical and moral. The part of less government intrusion apparently now prefers the government to tell them what's offensive.
They still insist that there is no right to privacy guarantee when it comes to a woman's body, despite the 4th Amendment's protection that we be secure in our own person's.
The writ of habeas corpus and the Geneva conventions which we ratified decades ago are now quaint. And what's more alarming Republicans now trust the government to decide when they are justified in using it.
Who needs separations of powers any more? Why not allow the executive branch to do what ever they desire using the awesome power of government to do things in secret, with no oversight or accountability?
In other words, who needs the Constitution anymore, we have conservatism now. These guys really should be called the anti-constitutionalists. Let's face it they want this to be a Christian nation, whatever that means, it depends on which denomination you ask. They don't want free speech when it's inconvenient. They will ignore laws and precedent to achieve their vision of what they perceive to be what America should be. Not what the Constitution says, but what they envision.
These same people envision a lot, like Iraq for instance. They envisioned all kinds of great things that never came to be. Which is why we have a constitution in the first place. To protect us from idiots who think they know what's best for us.
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"Dominionism is a trend in Protestant Christian evangelicalism and fundamentalism that encourages not just active political participation in civic society but also attempts to dominate the political process.
The broad concept of Dominionism is based on the Bible's text in Genesis 1:26:
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (KJV).
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.'" (NIV).
Most Christians interpret this verse as meaning that God gave humankind dominion over the Earth. Many consider this a mandate for stewardship rather than the assertion of total control. A more assertive interpretation of this verse is seen as a command that Christians bring all societies, around the world, under the rule of the Word of God, as they understand it.
As Sara Diamond explains, the general Dominionist idea, is "that Christians alone are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns -- and there is no consensus on when that might be. Dominionist thinking precludes coalitions between believers and unbelievers...." This creates a contradictory tension."
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I cannot see it any other way than that.
Mr. McCain is telling the Christian right that under his administration it would be alright to have a religious test for working in government. Specifically that people only with a Christian right belief need only apply.
Mr. McCain is a pathetic creature now.