The Tyranny of the Atheistic Minority: Out of it has come a culture more worried about praying coaches than LGBTQ activists posed as teachers.

The American Spectator ^ | Apr 30, 2022 | George Neumayr

[E. Pluribus Unum]

To hear secularists talk about the First Amendment, one would think the Founding Fathers had established it to prevent Americans from any exposure to religion, as if George Washington and company had drawn the Constitution up not for Christians but for atheists. From this perverse view has come decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence cementing in place a de facto tyranny of the atheistic minority. Under it, the First Amendment has gone from a protection for the religious to a protection against them.

This completely ahistorical and unconstitutional view has unfortunately infected the thinking of many judges and politicians, even supposedly “conservative” ones. Notice that the GOP, which once touted prayer in public schools as a platform plank during the Reagan years, now no longer even talks about it. Many Republicans approach such matters skittishly, as if the secularist presumptions of the last 50 years are too entrenched to challenge. They have largely accepted the cant that the Constitution is “neutral” about religion. Never mind that the document rests on Judeo-Christian theism — that God exists and grants rights to human beings. Never mind that the states would never have agreed to the Constitution had it not contained a Bill of Rights protecting their religious activity.

The states clamored for a First Amendment not to render government godless but to guarantee that the federal government couldn’t swoop down and crush their religious activity. In most of those states, religion pervaded public life and government to a degree that would astonish people today. For decades after the adoption of the First Amendment, for example, states from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to South Carolina disallowed atheists in public office.

[allendale]

The lawyers who bring forth these cases are trying to harm and destroy traditional American culture. The time has come to aggressively dox them personally.

[Jim Noble]

Hello, my friend. What do you think of my #22?

[allendale]

It is perpetuating. These case outcomes (especially those that are consistent with the prevailing narrative and leftist goals) become “precedent”. This then becomes the “law” regardless of what legislators do or wish. The judiciary does legislate and can interpret just about any law as they like despite what is written or the original intent of the duly elected legislators that wrote it. Its how democracy rots and the people lose confidence in their government and governance.

[sauropod]

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