Separation of Church and State Be Damned!
Just when you think that the Christian Right can’t get any more drunk with power comes word — honest to God — that a state legislature is considering a bill that would turn Christianity into its official “majority” religion.
Other aspects of this bill would recognize “a Christian god,” and “protect the majority’s right to express their religious beliefs.”
Want more? The measure also recognizes that “a greater power exists,” and that only Christianity would receive “justified recognition.”
So, which of the 50 states is considering making Christianity it’s official state-sanctioned religion?
ANSWER:
Missouri. The bill, House Concurrent Resolution 13 (as if that number 13 isn’t ironic enough), is now pending.
posted by G @ 7:38 AM
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2 Comments:
Thanks for addressing this issue. As a Missourian I found it greatly distressing. Here is my take on the issue over at Ethics Daily: Majority Rules
Two quick follow up points by us at Holier Than Thou:
1) We suggest everybody with an interest in this issue go visit Kaylor's "Majority Rules" -- he provides a very personal, intimate and thoughful view on this matter.
2) And in response to Clark, we can only add that it is our ferverant belief that when politics and religion collide -- it is the religion that suffers far more than the politics.
Therefore, it is not our belief that church and state should be kept apart simply because it is somewhere in the Constitution (after all, that same Constitution managed to endorse slavery for a good number of years), but because mixing the two is bad for public policy, and bad for religion.
This site is devoted to detailing the failings of those who look to take personal matters of faith out of their homes and their churches and into the political arena: where they then claim that their religious belief has somehow placed them on a higher level than the rest of us -- and therefore, have a God-given right to govern us.
Yet every day we at Holier Than Thou are confronted with proof that those who claim this mantle of religious superiority are just as flawed as the rest of us -- and clearly not deserving of their self-claimed, self-righteous status.
Until we at Holier Than Thou run out of things to write about, we suggest that the religious keep their faith and politics separate. After all, voters can always decide to remove all religious influences in their political institutions at the ballot box. But once a religion gets tainted with the undue influence of politics, there may be no turning back.
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