Another repugican-controlled state passed and the repugican
governor signed into law, a religious edict voiding the 14th and 1st
Amendment …
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 insane delusion 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 repugicans and teabaggers, the religio-wingnuts hate
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 repugican-controlled state
passing and the repugican governor signing into law, a religious edict
voiding the 14
th and 1
st Amendment to make the christian bible the law of the land in Mississippi.
While Americans deluded that the religio-wingnut anti-gay
movement is in its death throes celebrated the country’s entrance into
the 21
st Century as an all-inclusive nation, Mississippi repugicans passed an anti-gay “religious freedom”
law. Religio-wingnut agitators 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 Phil Bryant signed the scriptural edict into
law, head of the (un)Family Research Center, Tony Perkins, issued a
statement saying as much. The leading prospect to head a supreme christian cabal 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 cult in the downtown area, or a
wedding vendor, whose orthodox christian delusion will not allow her to
affirm same-sex marriage,” the religious edict will “
prevent government from discriminating against religious exercise.”
Religious exercise in fundamentalist christians’ diseased minds is freedom to
dominate the population and void the Constitution most Americans
errantly believed granted all Americans equality under the law. Perkins
also elucidated the religio-wingnuts' belief that religious freedom
means much more than freedom of worship and includes freedom to dominate
the entire nation. He wrote that, “
Those who understand the
importance and cherish the historic understanding of religious freedom
are grateful for leaders who respond to fact and not fictitious claims
of those who are trying to quarantine faith within the walls of our
churches or homes.” This idea that religious freedom means rejecting
the Constitution, federal, and state laws by enforcing biblical edicts
on the people was devised in early 2009 shortly after the newly elected
African American President began serving his first term in office.
In 2009, over two hundred christian wingnuts joined to issue a statement,
the “Manhattan Declaration,” expressing their rejection of democracy
and their ire at being unable to rule by theocracy. The statement read, “
Freedom of religion and the rights of conscience are gravely jeopardized by those whom would use the instrument of coercion (
the U.S. Constitution)
to compel persons of faith to compromise their deepest convictions. We see it in the use of anti-discrimination statutes (
14th Amendment)
to
force religious institutions, businesses, and service providers of
various sorts to comply with activities they judge to be deeply immoral.”
This theocratic confederation panted to transform America into a harsh christian theocracy feared that adherents to, and defenders of, the
United States Constitution were “
the vanguard of those who would
trample upon the freedom of others to express their religious and moral
commitments to the sanctity of life and to the dignity of marriage as
the conjugal union of husband and wife.” The christians were angry their
effort to subjugate the population to their bastardized christianity
was not aided by a repugican evangelical government that, with
assistance from wingnuts on the Supreme Court, would rewrite the 1
st Amendment to transform “
exercise of religion”
into a means of imposing christianity on the people with the full force
of the government. That dangerous proposition will be the law of the
land when Supreme Court wingnuts rule in favor of Hobby Lobby and
deliver religious freedom to dominate the nation to the religio-wingnuts;
a goal they have lusted after for thirty years. If any American thinks
such an event will never happen in America, they only need to look at
the preponderance of repugican-controlled states attempting “
free exercise of religion”
edicts to ignore federal, state, and Constitutional laws guaranteeing
equal rights to all Americans; a condition that will soon be nothing but
a fond memory of a freedom-loving democracy transformed into a christian theocracy in a little over five years.
What should terrify Americans comfortable living under the current
Constitution is that among those signing the “Manhattan Declaration”
demanding “
exercise of religion” and “rights of conscience”
freedom to subject all Americans to biblical edicts is not the National
Organization for (no)Marriage (NOM), (anti)Family (non)Research Council (FRC), United
States cabal of catholic bishops (USCCB), or leaders of christian
universities, colleges, and publications, but the head of the religious
legal group who represented Hobby Lobby before the Supreme Court. If Americans believe the Hobby Lobby case is about whether or not a
secular corporation worships, prays, and proselytizes ignoramuses into
its delusion can legally refuse to follow federal laws, they just need
to look at the Manhattan Declaration’s primary impetus that is their
rejection of “
instruments of coercion” such as “
anti-discrimination
statutes to force religious institutions, businesses, and service
providers of various sorts to comply with activities they judge to be
deeply immoral.” Gays, single mothers, women in the workforce,
cohabitating couples, atheists, Buddhists, Heathens, non-christians, and muslims will all be “
judged to be deeply immoral” and subjected to whatever action evangelicals
“exercising religion” deem fits their delusion’s biblical moral judgment with constitutional protection according to the Supreme Court.
If Mississippi repugicans had waited for christian wingnuts on
the Supreme Court to set a major legal precedent in Hobby Lobby, they
could have saved themselves time and energy of passing a biblical “
exercise of religion”
edict to justify violating the U.S. Constitution and federal
anti-discrimination statutes the High Court will invalidate for Hobby
Lobby evangelicals. Hobby Lobby’s legal team, like Arizona, Kansas, and
now Mississippi’s ”
license to discriminate” under cover of “
free exercise of religion” law all cited the “
rights of conscience” as justification to impose christianity under their biblical version of “
religious freedom.”
Using religious freedom and rights of conscience to dominate America is
a five year crusade that would have never been so close to fruition if
not for repugicans and their Koch brother funding machine or voters who
sat out the 2010 midterm elections to protest the African American
President for failing to grant their every wish and whim. Soon, the
entire nation will pay for their pouts and petulance.
The real tragedy is that despite the certain gnashing of teeth and
wailing by Americans comfortable the anti-gay religio-wingnut movement
is waning will soon find themselves at the mercy of every person
“exercising religion” and ignoring the invalid Constitution, federal,
and state laws “they judge to be deeply immoral.” Like the failed
Arizona
discrimination legislation that allowed any person or organization free reign to violate any law they claim violates their “
free exercise of religion” and “
rights of conscience,”
the impending ruling for Hobby Lobby will subject every American to the
will of christian fundamentalists and no foolish petition, outcry from
legislators, or protests in the streets will change what the religio-wingnuts have yearned for since repugican man-god ronnie raygun opened
government to the moral majority; a Supreme Court ruling that all
religio-wingnut biblical edicts are Constitutional.
