A little scary
Missourri might get an official religion (Christianity, duh!)
What with Montana's abortion ban and now this I think we might be hitting the far end of our national lurch to the right. Sadly it isn't with any conservative views I can respect like balanced budgets or civil liberties, but rather with this cultural nonsense that I just hate hate hate. Anyway, I think pursuing this sort of thing will probably start the pendulum swinging back to the left. Most people really aren't going to stand for abortion being totally illegal and I hope that most people also see that an official religion is, you know, against the whole freedom of religion thing.
What with Montana's abortion ban and now this I think we might be hitting the far end of our national lurch to the right. Sadly it isn't with any conservative views I can respect like balanced budgets or civil liberties, but rather with this cultural nonsense that I just hate hate hate. Anyway, I think pursuing this sort of thing will probably start the pendulum swinging back to the left. Most people really aren't going to stand for abortion being totally illegal and I hope that most people also see that an official religion is, you know, against the whole freedom of religion thing.
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Missouri with one "r." South Dakota has the abortion ban (though I could see how you'd confuse it with Montana since they're so easy to forget). The heartland is morally superior, silly. Remember?
Ugh, it was early.
I never need to wake up to Christian Fundamentalism.
I think the official religion thing will hinge on whether SCOTUS holds that the 1st Amendment prohibits the Federal gov't from establishing an official religion, or ALL U.S. governments. I believe that originally it was interpreted to just mean the Federal gov't couldn't establish a religion. VA (Anglicanism) and CT (Congregationalism) had official religions for many years in the late 18th to early 19th centuries.
re: Abortion
Increasingly I look to one Dr. Gaius Baltar for guidance on this issue.
Duh. Here's Wikipedia on the Establishment Clause. Pay no attentiont to my stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Establishment_clause
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