Russian religious icons aboard the
International Space Station. NASA bans
similar American items.
Posted on 02/27/2016 11:11:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
The Praise and Worship Club at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, has been told that it cannot use the word "Jesus" in meeting announcements placed in the JSC Today email newsletter, because it violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution's First Amendment.
The warning given to the club by the JSC Today legal team in May 2015 has recently picked up national attention, with the Liberty Institute attorneys sending a demand letter to NASA threatening a lawsuit on Feb. 8 and the CitizenGo website launching a petition drive on Feb. 17. [...]
"It is illegal for the government to censor the name of Jesus in employee emails," said Jeremy Dys, senior counsel for Liberty Institute. "Censoring a religious club's announcement to specifically exclude the name 'Jesus' is blatant religious discrimination.
"NASA administrators are not above the law," Dys said. "Government employers are required to respect the civil rights of its civil servants and contract employees--regardless of their religious viewpoint." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
What if there is a hispanic engineer named Jesus?
Who is going to clean the grounds then?
However, the muslim club uses the word ‘allah’ all the time ... which being a political movement doesn’t violate the super-stretched interpretation of one line in a letter by T Jefferson.
Do they use “Isa” too? That’s the Arabic form of Jesus, and if they’re permitted to use that, then banning “Jesus” on the part of Christians is a blatant attack.
They get around that with the distinction between “Jesus” and “Jesucristo”, specific to Spanish only though.
Have no idea if there is a muslim club - but if there was, they would be exempt because, even though they might utter ‘Isa,’ it is not the same as ‘Jesus’ as any Ist grader can see. Its just some interpreter’s opinion that they are the same. Case dismissed.
Of course it is a blatant attack, but then NASA is dedicated to muslim outreach and the word ‘Jesus’ is offensive. We do not want the Crusaders within NASA to upset its new mission, you know.
Even so, the prevailing “interpreter’s opinion” could not ultimately discount the Islamic viewpoint that Isa bin Maryam (or Jesus son of Mary) refers to the Biblical Jesus but in a completely different theological context.
In this instance the interpreters have the final say in all matters religious, after all they weren’t brought all the way from Saudi for nothing. Using terms like ‘theological context’ and ‘Biblical’ are in themselves offensive and betray Crusader intentions. Off with your head!
Obama has ruined NASA.
Yup, that’s how the leftists typically pigeonhole people.
As long as you understand your place, dhimmi, we’ll let you keep your head ... for now. The MB is watching you.
But a muslim outreach mandate does not violate the Establishment Clause.
Got it.
The “Establishment clause” says nothing about using the name of Jesus. I suppose it would be fine to say “Allah”.
Two plus two equals five even in IslamSoc.
The reason that NASA is wrongly using federal legislative powers to practice hate crime against Christians is this imo. Regardless that the Founding States made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-8 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running NASA, the EPA, etc., please consider the following.
Corrupt Congress wrongly lets non-legislative branch members of the federal government steal and abuse legislative branch powers, such powers to used to practice hate crime against Christians in this example, NASA the perpetrator in this case.
On the other hand, while there is no federal law saying that Jesus cannot be mentioned on a NASA bulletin, note that Christian business owners have been understandably offended when they have been forced to associate the names of their businesses with gay agenda issues like gay marriage, their 1st Amendment protections wrongly ignored in such cases.
But instead of practicing double-standards as evidenced by this NASA issue, perhaps Christians should voluntarily include a disclaimer concerning Christian-related information on NASA bulletins, the disclaimer indicating that the information that they have provided doesn’t necessarily reflect the official opinion of NASA.
Finally, while I enjoyed watching NASA space exploration projects on TV while growing up, note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for space exploration purposes.
Good! Sue the heck out of the bigots.
Atheists need a good dose of civil disobedience. For some strange reason, they get to establish their belief in no God, and no one challenges them on their establishment of a belief (religion). They argue they take a scientific view of God whom they say does not exist. Yet they cannot provide any proof that God does not exist any more than religious believers can prove the existence of their Gods. The atheists are getting a free pass by government. Why?
NASA Astronaut:
A highly educated individual who chooses:
1. To strap him or herself into a coffe can which is mounted onto the front end of the world’s largest conventional bomb.
This massive bomb explodes through an itsy-bitsy hole in the bottom of the bomb propelling the astronaut at 14,000 mph into a near perfect vaccuum.
At re-entry time parts of the tin coffee can will set afire and fly past the window as the air heats up the coffee can.
They will then deploy and land with a parachute.
“No, really, it will work.”
Jesus’ needs to be apart of this as in all things.
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