In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation's most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House. [More]Now I know the First Amendment states "CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." but I thought it was pretty much settled law that that "wall of separation" Jefferson referred to in a letter meant the application was now mandated to be drilled all the way down to villages putting a creche on public property...
Now we get hiring preferences based on profiling?
Oh well, I'm sure Americans United Against Non-Marxist Church/State Partnerships will get right on it--just like they and the IRS did with "Snuffy" Pfleger...
Besides, what kind of fool thinks the Constitution applies to the federal government...? Hell, they build "temples" to "enshrine" their gods.
I'm just waiting for the Islamic fundies to grok that the graven image of Muhammad on the Supreme Court building is blasphemy, and merits a fatwah.
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Just off the top o' me head, Kent me bucko, I already know your hostility to Christians, how do ye feel about Moslems runnin' yer government? You know, footbaths, beheadings, 9yr.old brides, no alcohol or tobacco, female chattels, and prayers on your face, five times a day? Kind of makes one long for candles and Christmas, hmmmm? Oh, it's a wicked boy I am!
I have friends who are moderate Protestant Christians. They're already feeling alienated. They're going to be at the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party April 15th. Some of them are veterans who are aware of the prohibition against vets treated for emotional trauma possessing guns. They are intelligent. They are community leaders. They are p!$$3d.
C'mon, David, you know that's really "separation of CHRISTIANITY and state", not "separation of church (all religions) and state" that they meant. Islam is just fine and dandy with Barak HUSSEIN.
Forget the wall of separation. What about the prohibition of religious tests in Article VI?
I object to Ivy-league college status as a differentiator in hiring. Other colleges meet the same accreditation standards at a much lower cost to the students. Do we want government employees who overpaid to receive the "benefit" of perceived enhanced status? We have already had enough problems with Skull & Bones Society members and the graduates of Yale and Harvard.
RE: The Lincoln "Temple"
It's Masonic
"The Lincoln Memorial is a Temple erected to the dream of equality before the law for all people, and of the indivisible nature of the American Union. Lincoln is a modern sacrifice, an offering upon the altar of justice. It is ironic that the nation that dared to aspire to freedom was mired in the ancient institution of slavery. This stubborn holdover of the Colonial era ultimately resulted in the greatest loss of American blood in our history. Its unholy remnants still stain our national self-image. Lincoln sits in mute contemplation to remind us that evil will not be tolerated by the forces that direct and sustain this country, that our duty is to rise beyond the errors and sins of our nature." (http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Masonic-Washington-Guidebook-Ceremonies/dp/product-description/1594772665)
Lincoln trampled the Constitution into the dirt. The War for Southern Independence was a war of northern aggression. The slavery question wasn't a morality issue, it was a monetary issue. Lincoln didn't give a dam'n about the slavery issue until well into the war. His revered emancipation proclamation didn't free one single slave in union occupied territory. He might as well have declared the slaves in China free. Read your history, the real history, not the politically correct pabulum your government high school teacher spoon fed you.
Sean, I have no hostility toward Christians, just towards Christianity, and then only when it tries to force everyone to pretend they agree with it in every way (often by force of "law").
I think most Christians are fine people in spite of Christianity precisely because they mostly ignore its loonier aspects. And, I feel the same about Muslims. Those who ignore their religion's loonier aspects are probably fine people, too. Although I don't know any Muslims personally.
I would resist and denounce (and fight back violently against) any imposition of Sharia Law just like I would a new Inquisition or "Witch Burnings". Would I be killed by either one? Probably. Principles can suck.
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