Funny, they had no problem with Piss Christ winning a competition where one of the sponsors was the National Endowment for the Arts, or with Elephant Dung Mary appearing in the tax-funded Brooklyn Museum.
Meanwhile, their demigod illegally renames the highest mountain in America to reflect its association with ... get this... pagan creationism, and everybody's like "Hell, yeah! Stick it to the white man who despoiled the continent!"
We could go one of two ways with this: We could do a petition pointing out turnabout's fair play and demand Whitefish Mountain be renamed Mount Jesus, or alternatively, we could redouble efforts to let the Prozi know about the religious figures on the Supreme Court frieze, let the Islamic State know one of those figures is Muhammad, and then take bets on who'll get to them first.
Me, I kind of like the old name, and I'm not feeling very good about Unalienable Rights-Free Zones anyway...
Obama got one right with renaming the mountain. The state of Alaska has been asking for 40 years to have it renamed. It seems to me that the people of Alaska should decide what to call a mountain in their own state, not a bunch of politicians from Ohio.
ReplyDeleteExcept the name was approved by Congress and if you let that branch's actions to be undone by executive fiat, you've negated separation of powers. That's the issue.
ReplyDeleteThe issue is States Rights. Congress had no business naming it in the first place. Just like Congress has no business deciding if oil is drilled for in Alaska or if wolves run wild.
ReplyDeleteArticle 1 Section 8 does not give the Congress the power to give place names to landmarks within the states and this is a mountain, not a "Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings", the only reasons the Federal government is given any authority to own property.
Alaska wanted the name changed, that is all I need to know.
Then you don't need to know Obama is usurping power you say Congress usurped, and you don't see another danger in that.
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to be logically consistent, you need to object to Obama renaming it as well, for the same reasons you stated.
The atheists and agnostics in this lawsuit need to get a life. I'm not a believer myself, but hey why not have Jesus on a mountain? I also like the Virgin Mary above Butte. Mostly I like them because they piss off the dog whistles of the world.
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