My little blogging buddies are a bit busy with life and all of it's wonders right now, so I figure I'll do my best to rage against the machine for them.
This week has seen the system work, and for that, I can't be as angry at the world as usual. Darn!
The courts have upheld the Republic by letting painful family matters stay just that, painful family matters, not political ping-pong balls. Though the fall out from this will be felt in some form I'm sure. What form that is is totally up in the air. If I had my way, it would be one more thing that further erodes this falsehood that the Reds occupy the moral high ground alone and unchallenged.
I heard this great thing on NPR tonight as I was driving to my accountant to file my taxes (Godspeed war-mongers, here's a few bucks less to kill the poor with!). A Christian evangelist was talking about how back in the sane old days of our founders, religious leaders in our country begged the framers to stay out of the churches legislatively, and how now the current crop of Bible thumpers are begging the courts, legislators, etc. to allow the icons of Christianity to seep into the halls of our capitol and dictate our laws and freedoms.
The point this man made that I hadn't realized was that the church defines blasphemy as "to make secular that which is sacred". So, that would mean that every single Bible toting yahoo out there yelling about our Godless Government is once again violating the core tenants of their faith. Do these morons even go to church? Or they only good for photo-ops, yelling at distressed family members of brain-dead women and threatening sixteen-year-old girls getting an abortion because their church-going, redneck, family member raped them and got them pregnant?
I just wish we could go back to the good old days when people let the government do governmental stuff and the church do churchy stuff and never the twain did meet. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not in favor of a Godless world, but faith is a deeply personal process that isn't easily broadcast to a diverse populous. For that reason alone it makes sense to leave any tenants of a specific faith outside of the bodies that represent "the people". That means no more Ten Commandments in our courthouses, no more Bibles in our jury deliberation rooms. I mean, come on people, leave God alone. Doesn't anyone ever think that God needs a break from us screwing up our lives and then begging for absolution in the next breath. It's a full time job, and one that doesn't need any armchair quarterbacking from the unwashed.
Oh well, I guess until the mid-term elections I'm going to always be a bit pissy thinking about the Reds calling the shots. At least the whole Social Security thing has died a very public death. I guess there's always hope.
UPDATE- Well, I may have spoke too soon once again. Let's just hope the courts don't do anything stupid. For the record, I say that not because I favor one side or the other, I just think it would be a mistake for the courts to do anything different they what they've already done. We need some judicial consistency right now.
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