Although the majority of Americans errantly believe the United
States Constitution is the unchallenged law of the land, a substantial
number of Christian fundamentalists still adhere to, and are enforcing,
their firm belief that their almighty god directed the Founding Fathers
to create a Christian nation and wrote a set of laws they would call
“The Constitution of the United States.” In the Christian version of
god’s Constitution, equal rights are an abomination on par with biblical
god’s abhorrence of homosexuality, and religious freedom is Christian’s
biblical right to subjugate the population under a Christian theocracy.
Over the past five years, Americans have learned that, along with
Republicans and teabaggers, the religious right hates the U.S.
Constitution as much as they despise America’s African American
President, gays, women, and Americans rejecting the Christian bible as
law of the land, and the proof is another Republican-controlled state
passing and the Republican governor signing into law, a religious edict
voiding the 14th and 1st Amendment to make the Christian bible the law
of the land in Mississippi.
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Last week while Americans deluded
that the religious right anti-gay movement is in its death throes
celebrated the country’s entrance into the 21st Century as an
all-inclusive nation, Mississippi Republicans passed an anti-gay
“religious freedom” law. Religious right activists celebrated
Mississippi’s biblical law as empowering businesses to reject the
Constitution and enforce biblical law discriminating against same-sex
couples in the name of Christianity, and shortly after Governor Phil
Bryant signed the scriptural edict into law, head of the Family Research
Center, Tony Perkins, issued a statement saying as much. The leading
prospect to head a Supreme Christian Council to rule theocratic America
said, “Whether it’s someone like Pastor Telsa DeBerry who was hindered
by the Holly Springs city government from building a new church in the
downtown area, or a wedding vendor, whose orthodox Christian faith will
not allow her to affirm same-sex marriage,” the religious edict will
“prevent government from discriminating against religious exercise.”
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