Posted on 12/06/2008 6:51:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Just in time for the Christmas season, Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire has insulted Christians all over the world. Inside the state Capitol building in Olympia there is a traditional holiday display featuring a tree and the Nativity scene; perfectly appropriate since the federal and state Christmas holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
But this year Gregoire decided to add another item to the display. Standing alongside the baby Jesus is a giant placard designed by atheists that reads: "There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
You read that correctly. The governor of Washington State has permitted an attack on religion to be displayed in her office building as part of a Christmas presentation.
Even the producers of "The Twilight Zone" would have rejected this script as being too far-fetched. Gregoire's behavior is offensive, insulting to all people of faith and totally incomprehensible.
Unless you know what's going on in Washington State.
Seattle now rivals San Francisco for secular-progressive nuttiness. The city fathers are allowing public nakedness in city parks and nude bike riding, and in Fremont, a Seattle suburb, they actually put up a statue honoring Vladimir Lenin, the father of communism.
Some on the Seattle school board actually supported denigrating Thanksgiving by teaching children about the atrocities against Native Americans by the Pilgrims.
In addition, Washington State voters have passed assisted-suicide legislation, and the state gives out free birth control pills, including the "morning after pill."
On the quality-of-life front, the streets of Seattle are full of homeless people, but they don't have to be out in the rain. The city will pay to house alcoholics and drug addicts if they want it. They can actually get free furnished apartments. Taxpayers, of course, pick up the tab.
Outside of the Seattle area, Washington State is fairly conservative. But the big-city population base rules, and far-left zealots are running wild. However, they may have overstepped on this Christmas deal.
I believe that most Americans, even those living in the far-left enclaves, respect uplifting traditions like Christmas, where peace and love is the theme of the great day. Calling religion "enslaving" doesn't exactly fit into the peace and love scenario, does it? Can't we all just get along for a few weeks in December?
The answer to that question is no. Not in Washington State, where the governor believes a few nuts have a legal right to run down the Christmas tradition in the lobby of the Capitol building. At this point there is little left to say except this: Where are the wise men when you need them?
Moslem dominance in displays might irk me, but it would never compare to the well-founded fear that my head is on the line. Display irritation is baby stuff.
Tim McVeigh did not do anything in the name of religion (Christianity or any other). There is a huge difference between him and the thousands who have done things because Islam demands it and they are good followers.
Good Morning all,
There is a problem with the idea that the constitution does not always extend to state or local government. I do not believe that it can be honestly argued that the First Amendment does not apply to a state, but the Second Amendment does. It cannot be had both ways. The Constitution must be interpreted and applied consistently.
The First Amendment begins “Congress shall pass no law . . .” and the Second does not mention congress, that is irrelevant. It cannot be allowed for Utah to declare Mormanism the state religion or for Dearborn, Michigan to declare Islam as the official local religion.
I think it has semething to do with “equal protection.”
Well I for one always say the evidence is quite overwhelming.
Understood. My apologies for reading something that wasn't there.
Liberals, of course, try to impugn Christians by sticking us with McVeigh.
Homosexuality is a moral perversion. And gays know it and embrace that perversion. Their anger knows no bounds.
How can it be irrelevent? These men were careless in their writing?
It says “Congress” specifically in the 1A indeed, and that means something.
Otherwise all the laws about porn and even election signs and so on in localities would be struck down as unconstitutional.
Of course, how we got into abridging the 2A in every state I don’t know. Just simply ignoring the written word, I suppose.
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