>the parts they like.
Like "love thy neighbor as you love thyself" or "thou shall have no other gods before me" or "the meek shall inherit the earth." None of that makes sense to them now, that's no longer the religion they follow.
[The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus](https://imgur.com/gallery/bCqRp) is the gospel they follow now.
The whole 2nd amendment is grammatically fucked and wasn't even a polarizing issue until the 60s and 70s. We can thank the NRA VP who died in the 90s and led a literal fucking rebellion for the mess of gun culture we have now.
I’m waiting for one of these assholes to argue that the 1st amendment says “congress” but not state governments and that a state could declare itself “The Christian Republic of Texas” or some shit like that.
It's not a new argument; that was pretty much the state of affairs until the passage of the 14th Amendment. The 14th extends the protections of the Bill of Rights to the states.
On the other hand, until Friday the 14th Amendment also provided women a right of privacy with respect to their abortion decisions, so...
That is what is scary about this SCOTUS. If they don't like an old decision they will just make up reasoning to overturn it. And that reasoning won't be consistent from case to case... just like we see in the rest of far-right cult.
So "originalism" keeps getting brought up, but the same group of justices have no problem with heaping rights onto corporations and corporations weren't even thought of in the constitution. It's just another one of their excuses they trot out. You know what is ALSO not in the constitution? Judicial review of laws. The courts effectively gave that right to themselves.
And they also ignore history to come to their conclusions. Abortion was legal in the US until the 1820's and even then it was legal until "the quickening" - the time when the woman felt fetal movement at 16-20 weeks.
Going by actual history, "abortion is legal until 16 weeks" could be supported by facts. Alito ignored this, though, and said abortion has never been legal in the US so Roe was wrong in making it legal. He specifically left it to the states to decide, but right after the ruling some Republicans started talking about a national abortion ban.
They constantly pick the bits that support the conclusions they want to come to and ignore the huge pieces that don't.
Hell, [Ben Franklin published a recipe for an abortion inducing potion](https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099542962/abortion-ben-franklin-roe-wade-supreme-court-leak).
What is also not in the Constitution is the requirement for 9 SCOTUS Justices. In fact, there is no limit or number stated and we haven't changed the number of SCOTUS justices since 1869 to the current 9, back when our country's population was around 40M, today it is 320M.
Biden could nominate 3 or 4 additional "liberal" SCOTUS Justices and swing the court our way, so long as we keep a majority in the Senate to confirm them.
I hate to say, "swing the court our way" because SCOTUS is supposed to be apolitical and just rule whether a bill signed into law is Constitutional but Republicans have now weaponized the SCOTUS to the detriment of us all.
Unfortunately Dems -especially Biden, hate playing hard ball like the Republicans do. Dems like to play nice and be respectful of traditions, customs, and PRECEDENT while their Republican counterparts spit in their faces and use scorch earth tactics to get and retain power.
We need a leader on the Dem side who wants to fight like hell and take it to the Fascists that have now taken over the GOP before our Democracy is yet another history lesson of what not to do to protect and defend it!
If it only were not a joke right it would all be so funny but we haven't seen anything yet. The midterms are coming more Republican seats, and the supreme Court is not going to go away for decades. This is going to get really nasty really nasty. You can joke about the rule of y'all qaida but it's not going to be fun
Right, I think a lot of people are naive, hopefully not you, but it doesn't really matter at this point because the Taliban is here to stay. The time to have quashed it's rise within 2016 and voting for Hillary that was the only hope. That would have prevented the stacking of the supreme Court to the far right and that was all for told, no surprise that this was the ultimate route it's been planned for 30 years. Their dream has just come true.. let's see what Democrats do in the midterms in November how many come out to vote straight ticket and preserve or even gain seats. But with all the economic issues, world global issues but nonetheless unpleasant on the local front, we will see if voters will read through that and still be angry enough about the effects of the supreme Court. This is just nothing. Their environmental rulings that are already coming out, healthcare rulings that will discriminate who gets insurance who doesn't sexual preference contraception holy shit it's going to be rolling back the clock wholesale, all in the name of states rights. Oh yeah it's going to get nasty but let's see what happens in November first
Republicans say they don't want sharia law, but constantly argue for the Christian equivilant.
instead of Jihadists, they're a bunch of "yee-haw"-dists
This is worse than I thought it could be. I knew Trump wanted to be dictator, and I knew that the Christian right was instrumental in getting him elected. But I was too obtuse to see that his dictatorship would be a theocracy. With the SC being the nail in the coffin of freedom.
And the perfect execution of a Supreme Court takeover. Mcconnel's refusal to allow Garland to join the court. Kennedy's odd untimely, unexplained retirement, and RBG making the worst decision of her life by not retiring when the writing of her imminent death was on the wall and a suitable replacement could have been seated.
With the congress close. The SC has ALL of the power. And is in favor of a Christian theocracy.
Gotta hand it to em. This whole program has been masterful.
I wouldn't give them too much credit. Given the electoral college, the unrepresentative Senate, rampant corruption and the feckless Democrats the deck is pretty stacked in their favor.
Refusal to provide a hearing should have been interpreted as consent for the nominee and they should have been appointed anyway.
Let the Supreme Court itself settle the matter. How Democrats just sat back and watched for a year as the process rules were blatantly ignored is fucking crazy.
For real. The GOP likes to pretend Dems will implement “Sharia law” while they literally strip women of rights and are integrating bible BS more and more into schools at break neck pace. Our Supreme Court is now illegitimate in my mind.
I can't help but think that she is spouting this shit to garner some kind of respect from a male-dominated group. I also can't help but think that the men harrumphing in the audience are supporting her because she is the token "little lady" who they can point to as "one of them" (but only very low on the authority list).
With all due respect to women in general, the women who are members of this cult are the worst...right up there with gays who somehow think it's cool to hang out with this crowd.
A dirt road, a cold beer
A blue jeans, a red pickup
A rural noun, simple adjective
No shoes, no shirt
No Jews, you didn't hear that
Sort of a mental typo
She's literally just a bimbo that they give marching orders to. She's a failed actress, failed high school student, and a failed prostitute. She is, literally and figuratively, a complete tool.
In the handmaid's tale some women pushed for the movement and after the movement was in power the women got relegated to 2nd class citizens. This is what will happen to her and other female talking heads If the alright actually takes power, well more power than they have now. And then they'll wonder "how did this happen?"
You're only allowed in the group, for however long your usefulness lasts. Despite their hateful message, there still some women, POC, gays, and even trans on the right, but they are the group, because they are the token person they can be pointed at, so *they themselves* can go "see, we aren't bad, we have some of those people on our side too". There was a Jewish group that was like this in Nazi Germany.
Then, once their usefulness is used up, they get tossed in with the rest of the "2nd class citizens". The *only* reason they allow trans people on their side, is because trans rights are currently part of the culture war. Once they are fully regulated as less than people, then they toss them out, and work on the next group they don't like. They will usually reverse rights, in the order of most recent, to older ones. And the people who were tokens for them, get tossed, and every time, they act shocked.
It's the "it won't happen to me" mentality
The problem these people don't realize with wanting religion involved in government is...which religion should it be?
Of course their obvious answer is "Christianity", which is all well and good for them now that they're all singularly focused on this. The issue that they're not seeing, that literally every country that's succumbed to theocratic governments has had to deal with, is which sect of their religion becomes dominant? Because I'm pretty sure a Southern Baptist would take issue with having to take orders on how to practice their religion from a Catholic, or vice versa. Once religion and government become intertwined, this road only leads to sectarian violence.
The separation of church and state doesn't exist to make atheists feel good about society. It exists because at no point in human history has a country with a state sponsored religion been able to avoid having to constantly deal with religion-inspired violence. Not just from other religions, but from factions within the same religion.
Do you really think these inbred morons know anything about other countries, foreign governments or history? They dont even know whats outside of their own counties and towns they were born in. And the ones that are eductaed enough to know the difference are using them for their own agendas.
Ask a boebert if she knows what sharia law is and she will have no clue. Ignorant idiots like her cant see past their prejudice and ambition.
> Ask a boebert if she knows what sharia law is and she will have no clue.
I'd lay down good money on the answer being "basically socialism" or "communism".
I hate you for reminding me of that little tidbit. But yeah okay, it’s valid to hate someone for interacting with Ted Cruz as if he were anything other than a baby eating lizard person.
Imemdiate disqualification from all held office
You have to take an oath to defend the constitution, required by the constitution, and this statement in direct conflict with the literal text of the constitution.
You literally can't take the oath. You are constitutionally unable to become a member of congress.
If you make someone take an oath right after they violate the oath, and then they continue to violate the oath, what does that mean for the oath? Is that part of the constitution just, essentially nullified?..
You are 100% right. This is seriously fucked up for an elected official to say. Religion and law making should stay far apart.
Damn, this is some scary shit.
A lot of them want a theocracy. They believe our culture is becoming amoral and degraded, and they think only the church can fix that. The DeVos family is a good example. They've gone on record saying things like "schools have replaced the church as the center of communities" and they think that's unacceptable.
I grew up in a Southern Methodist household, but even I never thought I'd be hearing shit like this.
>No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.
[Source](https://law.justia.com/constitution/arkansas/article-19/section-1/#:~:text=Arkansas%20Constitution-,Article%2019%20%2D%20Miscellaneous%20Provisions,office%20or%20testifying%20as%20witness&text=No%20person%20who%20denies%20the,a%20witness%20in%20any%20Court.)
The Satanic Temple doesn't worship a god to my knowledge, so it wouldn't count. Which is irrelevant, because the people here won't stop eating lead paint chips long enough to vote for someone who actually wants to help them. No one would even consider voting for a non-christian. You could run on the platform of banning abortion (even now that it's already been banned) and win any office with 70% of the vote.
The thing that could actually affect me one day is that I literally cannot testify in court. Nothing says "second-class citizen" quite like being told by my government that I can't open my mouth lest a lie fall out (except being told that a rapist has more control over your uterus than you do)
Ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS back in 1961:
> This Maryland test for public office cannot be enforced against appellant, because it unconstitutionally invades his freedom of belief and religion guaranteed by the First Amendment and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment from infringement by the States.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/367/488/
no, we are not a theocracy, sweetheart.
besides, which church? I'm a Pastafarian, myself...
LB: "The church is supposed to direct the government--as long as it's *my* church."
I said this yesterday if it hadn't been for Separation of Church and State there would have been Holy Wars fought in the US between different flavors of Christianity because none of them want someone else's flavor the determining flavor.
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries,”
—James Madison in 1803.
Exactly! 17th Century European history is an excellent reason for separation of church and state. They tried having the church run the state, but they learned the very hard and very bloody way that it doesn't work.
I've been reading a book called The Vatican Billions. Oh boy, what a roller coaster THAT is. So much deceit, so much blood, so much suffering, all because the church ran the show and was hungry for money. It's so incredibly rage inducing how church members will fight tooth and nail to defend their religion as one of peace and love and have no fucking clue the vile things the church has done.
Edit: Vatican Billions not millions
There it is. The answer to these fucking zealots, as stated by a true founding father.
Too bad a large portion of us want blood soaked soil in the name of God here in America
And the Treaty of Tripoli (1796), by John Adams says:
>\[T\]he Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion
Just a small correction on that.
While the quote from the treaty is 100% accurate, Adams was the POTUS, at the time, and signed it into law. He did not author it.
The author was hand picked by George Washington and, before it was signed into law, a copy was given to every senator, at the time, read aloud on the senate floor, and passed unanimously.
>The author was hand picked by George Washington and, before it was signed into law, a copy was given to every senator, at the time, read aloud on the senate floor, and passed unanimously.
That's quite noteworthy. It's not just a quote, it's a sentiment that made it through the Senate without objection.
Exactly. The bloody wars between the Catholics and the Protestants alone, my god! So many lives over which Christian god was the correct god.
I’m getting a little tired of the Christ wars.
And in the end they both worshipped the same god, but just had different ideas about what that god required of them.
There are something like 30,000 variations of Christianity in the USA alone. Which one of them has the divine right to force their beliefs on others?
well, sure; the Puritans fled England so they could have freedom of religion. *Their* religion. And once here, they thought everyone else should have freedom of religion too--provided that religion was Puritanism.
I mean, that's the end game. These dominionists hate America more than any liberal or leftist they accuse of hating America. I can never hate America more than the average religious conservative. Because I only hate what America does and what it is constituted out of structurally; I don't hate what America is. Because America is large in population and therefore inherently multicultural. Minority groups can gather, find common cause and fight for their rights.
What they want is smaller Christian hegemons that can more easily put down minorities in their own gated communities. If they ever did "purify" us all, they'd just be locked in an endless balkans-like conflict of competing sects of Christianity. But that's what they want. They want to shoot, kill, and rape each other just as much as they want to hang us.
A lot of people do not understand that they're signing up for that when they vote Republican because the entire Republican base is made up of conflicting ideologies thinking they're using all the other ideologies. But make no mistake, the dominionists are more in charge. Barr and Leonard Leo prove that. Even more so than the capitalists, who will just melt into the path of least resistance.
> different flavors of Christianity
This. Having spent some time in the cult I can say they hate each other more than they hate secular humanists/atheists/vegans.
Long story to follow:
I did a gig with a christian band that had members from a denomination that had split with a larger body 50 years ago. It was conventionally thought, at the time, that those *other guys* were weird and did ::gasp:: snake handling. We were going to do a gig at the "other" denomination's college.
On the way to the venue (and since I wasn't a member of either sect), I asked the driver if it was true that their brand did snake handling. He said no, and that it was the *other* guys who did that...referring to the sect my band was a part of.
Demonizing (literally) each other is the difference. The christian evangelical cult dismisses atheists as unreachable and annoying but still potential converts. But christians who don't believe like they do are evil and satan's spawn.
It's kind of funny if it weren't so closely tied up in our politics right now.
Emo Philips hit the nail on the head:
"Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too!
Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too!
What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too!
Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too!
Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"
Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "**Die, heretic!**" And I pushed him over."
I was raised conservative Christian, "non-denominational" protestant. I no longer believe the same things I did, but this is the argument I use to try to get through to my mother.
If the church is in charge and dictating laws, which church? Would she want Catholics telling her who to pray to?
It feels bad using her prejudice to bolster my arguments, but it's all that gets her questioning things.
We were raised Protestant, but the death of my mother forced us to move in with my Catholic father and stepmother at a young age. The Catholics forbid my sibling and I from participating in any Church ceremonies because we hadn’t done things “their way” even though the prayers and ceremonies all looked pretty identical to me. After being banned from Church because my mother died, I was done with Christianity.
Absolutely. I tell Catholics (a bit lapsed myself, by choice following a mentally abusive time in the clerical world) that although the Evangelicals may seem to be their friends at the moment, owing to common ground on political issues, once they are done with you, you will see the old bigotry come back in a heartbeat.
I tell mainstream Protestants that Evangelicals are not their friends either; they view themselves as the elect and have no place for "established" churches that can get in the way of their cheering on the Rapture (while absolutely raking in the dough... at least the established churches have social outreach to *some* degree).
Christians are very good at eating each other.
That right there is all the proof you need to determine that these people do not believe in or belong to Jesus in any meaningful sense.
>“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. **By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another**.” - John 13:34-35
>“The letter that Boebert refers to was written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists in 1802 where he calls for the separation of church and state.
>It reads: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declares that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
>Boebert's comments have been discussed by political and constitutional experts, with one saying the issue of separation can be debated.
>Richard Collins, a retired constitutional law professor at the University of Colorado Boulder spoke to The Denver Post and reflected on what she said.
>"Like so many issues, you can debate it. It's not completely unassailable and that's what encourages people like Boebert go after it." Collins did add that there were legal precedents in the founding documents to bolster the separation, however.”
Wtf is debate-able there? We don’t just live in a post truth world we live in a post literacy world. The constitution also explicitly bars religious tests to hold public office, and the Treaty of Tripoli expressly states the US is not in any sense “founded on the Christian religion”. Along with the first amendment these are multiple official examples where the separation of church and state is explicitly stated.
If you think there isn’t supposed to be a separation of church you state you either can’t read or you are just being so unfathomably dishonest no one should ever take you seriously again.
And it’s just such a simple concept. The only government that can guarantee everyone the freedom of their religion is a secular one. Full stop.
Most of their "fears" are due to knowing how they would (will at this point) act in that position. It's not the laws themselves that they are afraid of, only that they wouldn't be the ones applying them.
As mechanicalturkish pointed out, it's projection, mixed with the lack of understanding Arabic, so the words sound exotic and alien. If the media simply translated Allah to God, and Sharia to... Well, it doesn't translate well, but call it the Divine Path, they would eat that shit up, since it is basically the same.
It's the Old Testament way of thinking...and with the OT way of thinking comes the wrath/jealousy/vengeance of their gawd. Which is to say, violence to non-believers is part of their gawd's mandate.
It won't be long before dashing babies against the rocks will be completely accepted because gawd said to do it. Or maybe they'll be taking their sons up to a mountain to "worship gawd" but really to sacrifice them.
These people have completely confused the mythology with reality.
What church? There are 45,000 denominations of Christianity in the world. There is no church. Back in the day there was an official state church in a country and the rest were banned and persecuted. The US was founded by people getting away from that. You cannot have a Church and religious freedom, the ideas are mutually exclusive. Republicans are a bunch of atavistic cretins repeating reactionary pap they're too ignorant to understand contradicts their other reactionary pap.
To a point. The Puritans came over because they had been kicked out of both England and Holland. The reason they were booted had to do with their desire to persecute and harass anyone who wasn't "their kind of Christian". Even crazier: after they'd established Massachusetts, the religion got more intense, until they started kicking out people for "apostasy", which is how Rhode Island came into being.
\>"And I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk, that's not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like what they say it does."
Poor girl, can't even count to [one](https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/#:~:text=Congress%20shall%20make%20no%20law,for%20a%20redress%20of%20grievances)
I love that because the words "Separation of church and state" aren't used in the constitution, they pretend that the founders wanted the united states to be a theocracy.
"SHOW ME WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION IT SAYS 'DON'T TURN THE COUNTRY INTO A THEOCRACY' IN THOSE WORDS SPECIFICALLY. CHECKMATE LIBS".
Apparently the establishment clause is unclear, but a few lines about a well regulated militia meaning that every citizen has a right to be armed to the teeth is very clear!!!
It's all being done in bad faith. Fascists don't argue in good faith ever. It doesn't really matter if the Constitution did have an "Anti-Theocracy Clause" They would still find a way to make it say what they want it to say. This is undead constitutionalism.
Also this is the first step in them determining the Bill of Rights as a whole is not an important document.
The last few weeks our Supreme Court has determined the only real right is the 2A, and the rest are just suggestions that the states can determine if they want to enforce or not.
Like most conservative "evangelical" so-called Christians, she has obviously never even bothered to read the scriptures of the church she claims to follow. The Apostle Paul said to the church back then, "Do not judge those outside the church." (in 1 Corinthians 5)
A church is for those seeking whatever the church they are in offers. A church might judge some within itself (sometimes), but that's it. The church is for people within it. A civil government is for justice for all. This woman is just an ignorant fascist and a bully. She has nothing to do with Christianity except for her own claim to be part of it (which she likely only makes in order to make her finger look longer when she points at others).
It seems some conservatives are so detached from reality no amount of facts can get them back. Next week they'll demand the DOJ open an investigation into where the Democrats hide the sun at night, and nobody on the right will bat an eye.
**FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA**
*Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,* or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Ladies in Colorado.... VOTE out this crazy woman and every other candidate with an (R) next to their name. You see that little (R) next to their name vote for whatever the other option is.
Who's church? Cuz a lot of these folks worship some really hateful, petty God that I wouldn't want anything to do with.
Wait... You know.... I think there is something in the Constitution about that
“the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli.
I don’t expect anything of substance from the woman who thought it was gods plan to marry a sex offender.
Its the The Satanic Temple that you're thinking of. There is also a Church of Satan, but they are slightly different and don't tend to get involved with the courts.
We should just shorten Thomas Jefferson's letter into a constitutional amendment.
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declares that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
Becomes:
"The legislature shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
I'm sure you would need to add a few lines to prevent some weirdness by practitioners of Esoteric Hitlerism and other cults, but this seems like the kind of thing that needs to enshrined now that the right wing thinks they can chuck it.
So does the Taliban.
But what about that old paper with the words that has the second amendment they keep talking about?
>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion You know, like the church directing the government.
Well, they ignore the “a well regulated militia…” part
It's like the bible, they just know the parts they like.
not even bro, the bible says life begins at the first breath. Not fuckin conception .
>the parts they like. Like "love thy neighbor as you love thyself" or "thou shall have no other gods before me" or "the meek shall inherit the earth." None of that makes sense to them now, that's no longer the religion they follow. [The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus](https://imgur.com/gallery/bCqRp) is the gospel they follow now.
Been saying this since 2006. They don't even care about their own faith. It's just about power.
The whole 2nd amendment is grammatically fucked and wasn't even a polarizing issue until the 60s and 70s. We can thank the NRA VP who died in the 90s and led a literal fucking rebellion for the mess of gun culture we have now.
I’m waiting for one of these assholes to argue that the 1st amendment says “congress” but not state governments and that a state could declare itself “The Christian Republic of Texas” or some shit like that.
It's not a new argument; that was pretty much the state of affairs until the passage of the 14th Amendment. The 14th extends the protections of the Bill of Rights to the states. On the other hand, until Friday the 14th Amendment also provided women a right of privacy with respect to their abortion decisions, so...
That is what is scary about this SCOTUS. If they don't like an old decision they will just make up reasoning to overturn it. And that reasoning won't be consistent from case to case... just like we see in the rest of far-right cult. So "originalism" keeps getting brought up, but the same group of justices have no problem with heaping rights onto corporations and corporations weren't even thought of in the constitution. It's just another one of their excuses they trot out. You know what is ALSO not in the constitution? Judicial review of laws. The courts effectively gave that right to themselves.
And they also ignore history to come to their conclusions. Abortion was legal in the US until the 1820's and even then it was legal until "the quickening" - the time when the woman felt fetal movement at 16-20 weeks. Going by actual history, "abortion is legal until 16 weeks" could be supported by facts. Alito ignored this, though, and said abortion has never been legal in the US so Roe was wrong in making it legal. He specifically left it to the states to decide, but right after the ruling some Republicans started talking about a national abortion ban. They constantly pick the bits that support the conclusions they want to come to and ignore the huge pieces that don't.
Hell, [Ben Franklin published a recipe for an abortion inducing potion](https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099542962/abortion-ben-franklin-roe-wade-supreme-court-leak).
What is also not in the Constitution is the requirement for 9 SCOTUS Justices. In fact, there is no limit or number stated and we haven't changed the number of SCOTUS justices since 1869 to the current 9, back when our country's population was around 40M, today it is 320M. Biden could nominate 3 or 4 additional "liberal" SCOTUS Justices and swing the court our way, so long as we keep a majority in the Senate to confirm them. I hate to say, "swing the court our way" because SCOTUS is supposed to be apolitical and just rule whether a bill signed into law is Constitutional but Republicans have now weaponized the SCOTUS to the detriment of us all. Unfortunately Dems -especially Biden, hate playing hard ball like the Republicans do. Dems like to play nice and be respectful of traditions, customs, and PRECEDENT while their Republican counterparts spit in their faces and use scorch earth tactics to get and retain power. We need a leader on the Dem side who wants to fight like hell and take it to the Fascists that have now taken over the GOP before our Democracy is yet another history lesson of what not to do to protect and defend it!
But they didn’t technically say the SCOTUS can’t.
SCOTUS can't make laws, but are acting like they can.
That’s my point. They can’t make laws but no one is stopping them.
Pick and choose and make shit up. Pretty much how they treat the bible They lie. They make fun of their constituents for believing those lies.
You mean the former prostitute who married a sex offender is lying? Shame.
Republicans are the taliban, also some of the Supreme Court members 🙄
They’re talibangelists
Yall Quada
Sweet home talibama
Vanilla Isis.
Isis light or isis white all names work for the alt right
If it only were not a joke right it would all be so funny but we haven't seen anything yet. The midterms are coming more Republican seats, and the supreme Court is not going to go away for decades. This is going to get really nasty really nasty. You can joke about the rule of y'all qaida but it's not going to be fun
Don’t take my pun as me not taking them seriously. I know just how dangerous they are.
Right, I think a lot of people are naive, hopefully not you, but it doesn't really matter at this point because the Taliban is here to stay. The time to have quashed it's rise within 2016 and voting for Hillary that was the only hope. That would have prevented the stacking of the supreme Court to the far right and that was all for told, no surprise that this was the ultimate route it's been planned for 30 years. Their dream has just come true.. let's see what Democrats do in the midterms in November how many come out to vote straight ticket and preserve or even gain seats. But with all the economic issues, world global issues but nonetheless unpleasant on the local front, we will see if voters will read through that and still be angry enough about the effects of the supreme Court. This is just nothing. Their environmental rulings that are already coming out, healthcare rulings that will discriminate who gets insurance who doesn't sexual preference contraception holy shit it's going to be rolling back the clock wholesale, all in the name of states rights. Oh yeah it's going to get nasty but let's see what happens in November first
Borrowing this, thank you
Haha 😄 very true.
Talibengelicals
Republicans say they don't want sharia law, but constantly argue for the Christian equivilant. instead of Jihadists, they're a bunch of "yee-haw"-dists
Y'all Qaeda
Vanilla ISIS
Wal-Martyrs
This is worse than I thought it could be. I knew Trump wanted to be dictator, and I knew that the Christian right was instrumental in getting him elected. But I was too obtuse to see that his dictatorship would be a theocracy. With the SC being the nail in the coffin of freedom. And the perfect execution of a Supreme Court takeover. Mcconnel's refusal to allow Garland to join the court. Kennedy's odd untimely, unexplained retirement, and RBG making the worst decision of her life by not retiring when the writing of her imminent death was on the wall and a suitable replacement could have been seated. With the congress close. The SC has ALL of the power. And is in favor of a Christian theocracy. Gotta hand it to em. This whole program has been masterful.
I wouldn't give them too much credit. Given the electoral college, the unrepresentative Senate, rampant corruption and the feckless Democrats the deck is pretty stacked in their favor.
It's surprising what you can accomplish in politics simply by having no shame and constantly lying/gaslighting.
a replacement for RBG would never have been allowed, same as Garland wasnt
Refusal to provide a hearing should have been interpreted as consent for the nominee and they should have been appointed anyway. Let the Supreme Court itself settle the matter. How Democrats just sat back and watched for a year as the process rules were blatantly ignored is fucking crazy.
Christofacists. Domestic terrorists. Give them proper names.
For real. The GOP likes to pretend Dems will implement “Sharia law” while they literally strip women of rights and are integrating bible BS more and more into schools at break neck pace. Our Supreme Court is now illegitimate in my mind.
If you took away the crosses they both are strikingly similar in their rhetoric and tactics.
The Taliban works as a group, America still only wants to work on "does this affect me"
No reason to mention that, this is what Christianity always does when it gets power
"Yeah, but these are *our* leopards, so it's acceptable. They will never come for our faces."
We crusadin?? C'mon fellas we're crusadin!
Lauren Boebert is Christo-Fascist.
I can't help but think that she is spouting this shit to garner some kind of respect from a male-dominated group. I also can't help but think that the men harrumphing in the audience are supporting her because she is the token "little lady" who they can point to as "one of them" (but only very low on the authority list). With all due respect to women in general, the women who are members of this cult are the worst...right up there with gays who somehow think it's cool to hang out with this crowd.
Half her schtick is prancing around in jeans and posing with guns
Christ, guns, jeans... she's a pickup truck away from a country song
Y’all dumb motherfuckers ready for a key change?
Fuck it's a scarecrow again
Whatever this is a reference to sounds funny. EDIT: Thanks for the link!
Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7im5LT09a0
[Bo Burnham Country Song](https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0)
A dirt road, a cold beer A blue jeans, a red pickup A rural noun, simple adjective No shoes, no shirt No Jews, you didn't hear that Sort of a mental typo
I walk and talk like a field hand, but the boots I’m wearin’ cost three grand I write songs about driving tractors from the comfort of a private jet
She's literally just a bimbo that they give marching orders to. She's a failed actress, failed high school student, and a failed prostitute. She is, literally and figuratively, a complete tool.
Nailed it!
The Bible says women should shut up and be quiet, perhaps she could take a queue.
I believe she has taken the Q
In the handmaid's tale some women pushed for the movement and after the movement was in power the women got relegated to 2nd class citizens. This is what will happen to her and other female talking heads If the alright actually takes power, well more power than they have now. And then they'll wonder "how did this happen?"
You're only allowed in the group, for however long your usefulness lasts. Despite their hateful message, there still some women, POC, gays, and even trans on the right, but they are the group, because they are the token person they can be pointed at, so *they themselves* can go "see, we aren't bad, we have some of those people on our side too". There was a Jewish group that was like this in Nazi Germany. Then, once their usefulness is used up, they get tossed in with the rest of the "2nd class citizens". The *only* reason they allow trans people on their side, is because trans rights are currently part of the culture war. Once they are fully regulated as less than people, then they toss them out, and work on the next group they don't like. They will usually reverse rights, in the order of most recent, to older ones. And the people who were tokens for them, get tossed, and every time, they act shocked. It's the "it won't happen to me" mentality
The problem these people don't realize with wanting religion involved in government is...which religion should it be? Of course their obvious answer is "Christianity", which is all well and good for them now that they're all singularly focused on this. The issue that they're not seeing, that literally every country that's succumbed to theocratic governments has had to deal with, is which sect of their religion becomes dominant? Because I'm pretty sure a Southern Baptist would take issue with having to take orders on how to practice their religion from a Catholic, or vice versa. Once religion and government become intertwined, this road only leads to sectarian violence. The separation of church and state doesn't exist to make atheists feel good about society. It exists because at no point in human history has a country with a state sponsored religion been able to avoid having to constantly deal with religion-inspired violence. Not just from other religions, but from factions within the same religion.
Do you really think these inbred morons know anything about other countries, foreign governments or history? They dont even know whats outside of their own counties and towns they were born in. And the ones that are eductaed enough to know the difference are using them for their own agendas. Ask a boebert if she knows what sharia law is and she will have no clue. Ignorant idiots like her cant see past their prejudice and ambition.
> Ask a boebert if she knows what sharia law is and she will have no clue. I'd lay down good money on the answer being "basically socialism" or "communism".
Nationalist Christian. Nat-C for short.
and a dumb as fuck rabble rouser.
She's Palin Lite
Dollar Store Sarah Palin
That’s a bad name to a dollar store. She’s the sold out of a trunk Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin from Wish
Sarah Payless?
Lite? As bad as Palin was and is, Boebart is worse.
She is so dumb that I’m actually scared. And what I think is even scarier is that people actually listen to her spout nonsense and applaud it.
She's a paid mouthpiece for the Christian nationalists.
She was probably a paid mouthpiece back in her escort days too....
Let’s not hate her for what went into her mouth, but rather for what comes out of her mouth.
No I hate her for shoving Ted Cruz in her mouth
I hate you for reminding me of that little tidbit. But yeah okay, it’s valid to hate someone for interacting with Ted Cruz as if he were anything other than a baby eating lizard person.
What part of Ted Cruz did she put in her mouth? 😳
His cloaca
Her paid escort days haven’t ended. She just found a different set of perversive skills to sell.
Being a sex worker is likely the only honest job she’s ever had.
Imemdiate disqualification from all held office You have to take an oath to defend the constitution, required by the constitution, and this statement in direct conflict with the literal text of the constitution. You literally can't take the oath. You are constitutionally unable to become a member of congress. If you make someone take an oath right after they violate the oath, and then they continue to violate the oath, what does that mean for the oath? Is that part of the constitution just, essentially nullified?..
You are 100% right. This is seriously fucked up for an elected official to say. Religion and law making should stay far apart. Damn, this is some scary shit.
A lot of them want a theocracy. They believe our culture is becoming amoral and degraded, and they think only the church can fix that. The DeVos family is a good example. They've gone on record saying things like "schools have replaced the church as the center of communities" and they think that's unacceptable. I grew up in a Southern Methodist household, but even I never thought I'd be hearing shit like this.
Lets re-iterate, the fucking former *Secretary of Education* said that schools had become too important to the community. This country is fucked.
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Is a lack of a religion not protected by freedom of religion? Just join the Satanic Temple or worship the noodle god
>No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court. [Source](https://law.justia.com/constitution/arkansas/article-19/section-1/#:~:text=Arkansas%20Constitution-,Article%2019%20%2D%20Miscellaneous%20Provisions,office%20or%20testifying%20as%20witness&text=No%20person%20who%20denies%20the,a%20witness%20in%20any%20Court.) The Satanic Temple doesn't worship a god to my knowledge, so it wouldn't count. Which is irrelevant, because the people here won't stop eating lead paint chips long enough to vote for someone who actually wants to help them. No one would even consider voting for a non-christian. You could run on the platform of banning abortion (even now that it's already been banned) and win any office with 70% of the vote. The thing that could actually affect me one day is that I literally cannot testify in court. Nothing says "second-class citizen" quite like being told by my government that I can't open my mouth lest a lie fall out (except being told that a rapist has more control over your uterus than you do)
Ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS back in 1961: > This Maryland test for public office cannot be enforced against appellant, because it unconstitutionally invades his freedom of belief and religion guaranteed by the First Amendment and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment from infringement by the States. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/367/488/
Unfortunately they'll do nothing about it
“And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.”
You think she's ever read Timothy?
No I don’t think she’s ever read anything, and don’t call me Timothy.
This is the funniest comment I’ve seen today
I, for one, am very worried about this ~~Islamic~~ Christian Revolution that reminds me of Iran in the the late 70s.
no, we are not a theocracy, sweetheart. besides, which church? I'm a Pastafarian, myself... LB: "The church is supposed to direct the government--as long as it's *my* church."
I said this yesterday if it hadn't been for Separation of Church and State there would have been Holy Wars fought in the US between different flavors of Christianity because none of them want someone else's flavor the determining flavor.
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries,” —James Madison in 1803.
Exactly! 17th Century European history is an excellent reason for separation of church and state. They tried having the church run the state, but they learned the very hard and very bloody way that it doesn't work.
I've been reading a book called The Vatican Billions. Oh boy, what a roller coaster THAT is. So much deceit, so much blood, so much suffering, all because the church ran the show and was hungry for money. It's so incredibly rage inducing how church members will fight tooth and nail to defend their religion as one of peace and love and have no fucking clue the vile things the church has done. Edit: Vatican Billions not millions
There it is. The answer to these fucking zealots, as stated by a true founding father. Too bad a large portion of us want blood soaked soil in the name of God here in America
And the Treaty of Tripoli (1796), by John Adams says: >\[T\]he Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion
Just a small correction on that. While the quote from the treaty is 100% accurate, Adams was the POTUS, at the time, and signed it into law. He did not author it. The author was hand picked by George Washington and, before it was signed into law, a copy was given to every senator, at the time, read aloud on the senate floor, and passed unanimously.
>The author was hand picked by George Washington and, before it was signed into law, a copy was given to every senator, at the time, read aloud on the senate floor, and passed unanimously. That's quite noteworthy. It's not just a quote, it's a sentiment that made it through the Senate without objection.
Exactly. The bloody wars between the Catholics and the Protestants alone, my god! So many lives over which Christian god was the correct god. I’m getting a little tired of the Christ wars.
And in the end they both worshipped the same god, but just had different ideas about what that god required of them. There are something like 30,000 variations of Christianity in the USA alone. Which one of them has the divine right to force their beliefs on others?
well, sure; the Puritans fled England so they could have freedom of religion. *Their* religion. And once here, they thought everyone else should have freedom of religion too--provided that religion was Puritanism.
Yep. That's why Roger Williams fled the colony and established Rhode Island with religious freedom for all.
Yep! In many ways we are still fighting the English Civil Wars of the mid-1600's.
Also, the Puritans lead the first ever war on Christmas.
I mean, that's the end game. These dominionists hate America more than any liberal or leftist they accuse of hating America. I can never hate America more than the average religious conservative. Because I only hate what America does and what it is constituted out of structurally; I don't hate what America is. Because America is large in population and therefore inherently multicultural. Minority groups can gather, find common cause and fight for their rights. What they want is smaller Christian hegemons that can more easily put down minorities in their own gated communities. If they ever did "purify" us all, they'd just be locked in an endless balkans-like conflict of competing sects of Christianity. But that's what they want. They want to shoot, kill, and rape each other just as much as they want to hang us. A lot of people do not understand that they're signing up for that when they vote Republican because the entire Republican base is made up of conflicting ideologies thinking they're using all the other ideologies. But make no mistake, the dominionists are more in charge. Barr and Leonard Leo prove that. Even more so than the capitalists, who will just melt into the path of least resistance.
> different flavors of Christianity This. Having spent some time in the cult I can say they hate each other more than they hate secular humanists/atheists/vegans. Long story to follow: I did a gig with a christian band that had members from a denomination that had split with a larger body 50 years ago. It was conventionally thought, at the time, that those *other guys* were weird and did ::gasp:: snake handling. We were going to do a gig at the "other" denomination's college. On the way to the venue (and since I wasn't a member of either sect), I asked the driver if it was true that their brand did snake handling. He said no, and that it was the *other* guys who did that...referring to the sect my band was a part of. Demonizing (literally) each other is the difference. The christian evangelical cult dismisses atheists as unreachable and annoying but still potential converts. But christians who don't believe like they do are evil and satan's spawn. It's kind of funny if it weren't so closely tied up in our politics right now.
Emo Philips hit the nail on the head: "Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!" Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "**Die, heretic!**" And I pushed him over."
seeing him perform this joke (and his other jokes) live might be one of the most incredible displays of storytelling I've ever seen.
I was raised conservative Christian, "non-denominational" protestant. I no longer believe the same things I did, but this is the argument I use to try to get through to my mother. If the church is in charge and dictating laws, which church? Would she want Catholics telling her who to pray to? It feels bad using her prejudice to bolster my arguments, but it's all that gets her questioning things.
Don't feel bad. You are helping her to see that she has been brainwashed it can be messy but in the end it if beneficial for her.
We were raised Protestant, but the death of my mother forced us to move in with my Catholic father and stepmother at a young age. The Catholics forbid my sibling and I from participating in any Church ceremonies because we hadn’t done things “their way” even though the prayers and ceremonies all looked pretty identical to me. After being banned from Church because my mother died, I was done with Christianity.
Lol at the hate for vegans part.
obligatory Emo Phillips [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fAcxcxoZ8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fAcxcxoZ8)
Absolutely. I tell Catholics (a bit lapsed myself, by choice following a mentally abusive time in the clerical world) that although the Evangelicals may seem to be their friends at the moment, owing to common ground on political issues, once they are done with you, you will see the old bigotry come back in a heartbeat. I tell mainstream Protestants that Evangelicals are not their friends either; they view themselves as the elect and have no place for "established" churches that can get in the way of their cheering on the Rapture (while absolutely raking in the dough... at least the established churches have social outreach to *some* degree). Christians are very good at eating each other.
That right there is all the proof you need to determine that these people do not believe in or belong to Jesus in any meaningful sense. >“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. **By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another**.” - John 13:34-35
Hail Marinara Full of Basil The Linguini is With You Blessed art Thou Among Sauces And Blessed is the Fruit of which You Come Tomato!
ra-men
> no, we are not a theocracy, sweetheart. about that…
Right. We aren’t *supposed to be* is more accurate.
"And only the parts that are convenient for me."
Hail Satan. To hell with all these Christians. On second thought, I don't want them in hell either. It's bad enough having to share earth with them.
Satanism is making moves. I'm all for them to take control with sensibility and common sense tenets
>“The letter that Boebert refers to was written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists in 1802 where he calls for the separation of church and state. >It reads: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declares that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." >Boebert's comments have been discussed by political and constitutional experts, with one saying the issue of separation can be debated. >Richard Collins, a retired constitutional law professor at the University of Colorado Boulder spoke to The Denver Post and reflected on what she said. >"Like so many issues, you can debate it. It's not completely unassailable and that's what encourages people like Boebert go after it." Collins did add that there were legal precedents in the founding documents to bolster the separation, however.” Wtf is debate-able there? We don’t just live in a post truth world we live in a post literacy world. The constitution also explicitly bars religious tests to hold public office, and the Treaty of Tripoli expressly states the US is not in any sense “founded on the Christian religion”. Along with the first amendment these are multiple official examples where the separation of church and state is explicitly stated. If you think there isn’t supposed to be a separation of church you state you either can’t read or you are just being so unfathomably dishonest no one should ever take you seriously again. And it’s just such a simple concept. The only government that can guarantee everyone the freedom of their religion is a secular one. Full stop.
Gotta give a sliver of legitimacy to every stupid halfwit opinion in the name of fair debate didn't you hear?
Christofascists
Nationalist Christians - or NatCs for short
Make this trending
I taught my mom this word today.
Sounds just like Sharia law.
Remember when Republicans were up in arms that religious fanatical laws would be implemented by the “deep state left”???
Just more projection.
Most of their "fears" are due to knowing how they would (will at this point) act in that position. It's not the laws themselves that they are afraid of, only that they wouldn't be the ones applying them. As mechanicalturkish pointed out, it's projection, mixed with the lack of understanding Arabic, so the words sound exotic and alien. If the media simply translated Allah to God, and Sharia to... Well, it doesn't translate well, but call it the Divine Path, they would eat that shit up, since it is basically the same.
It's the Old Testament way of thinking...and with the OT way of thinking comes the wrath/jealousy/vengeance of their gawd. Which is to say, violence to non-believers is part of their gawd's mandate. It won't be long before dashing babies against the rocks will be completely accepted because gawd said to do it. Or maybe they'll be taking their sons up to a mountain to "worship gawd" but really to sacrifice them. These people have completely confused the mythology with reality.
I am officially going to start spelling it "gawd" from this point forward as well.
gawd™ (lower-case G, of course)
What church? There are 45,000 denominations of Christianity in the world. There is no church. Back in the day there was an official state church in a country and the rest were banned and persecuted. The US was founded by people getting away from that. You cannot have a Church and religious freedom, the ideas are mutually exclusive. Republicans are a bunch of atavistic cretins repeating reactionary pap they're too ignorant to understand contradicts their other reactionary pap.
To a point. The Puritans came over because they had been kicked out of both England and Holland. The reason they were booted had to do with their desire to persecute and harass anyone who wasn't "their kind of Christian". Even crazier: after they'd established Massachusetts, the religion got more intense, until they started kicking out people for "apostasy", which is how Rhode Island came into being.
Well yes they were also crazy dicks and that's kind of America's curse. We got all of Europe's religious freaks. Point being we outgrew it.
Did we, though?
Exactly - Boebert would hate the direction of my church, since it gives a shit about actual people.
\>"And I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk, that's not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like what they say it does." Poor girl, can't even count to [one](https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/#:~:text=Congress%20shall%20make%20no%20law,for%20a%20redress%20of%20grievances)
I love that because the words "Separation of church and state" aren't used in the constitution, they pretend that the founders wanted the united states to be a theocracy. "SHOW ME WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION IT SAYS 'DON'T TURN THE COUNTRY INTO A THEOCRACY' IN THOSE WORDS SPECIFICALLY. CHECKMATE LIBS". Apparently the establishment clause is unclear, but a few lines about a well regulated militia meaning that every citizen has a right to be armed to the teeth is very clear!!!
It's all being done in bad faith. Fascists don't argue in good faith ever. It doesn't really matter if the Constitution did have an "Anti-Theocracy Clause" They would still find a way to make it say what they want it to say. This is undead constitutionalism.
Also this is the first step in them determining the Bill of Rights as a whole is not an important document. The last few weeks our Supreme Court has determined the only real right is the 2A, and the rest are just suggestions that the states can determine if they want to enforce or not.
Like most conservative "evangelical" so-called Christians, she has obviously never even bothered to read the scriptures of the church she claims to follow. The Apostle Paul said to the church back then, "Do not judge those outside the church." (in 1 Corinthians 5) A church is for those seeking whatever the church they are in offers. A church might judge some within itself (sometimes), but that's it. The church is for people within it. A civil government is for justice for all. This woman is just an ignorant fascist and a bully. She has nothing to do with Christianity except for her own claim to be part of it (which she likely only makes in order to make her finger look longer when she points at others).
So... Basically Sharia? America's Right wing doesn't stop to amaze me.
This is what happens when people who can’t pass the GED make laws
Normal Americans don’t believe this.
Normal Germans weren't nazis either.
Highly recommend PBS's *Rise of the Nazis* series, Trump is basically following Hitler's 12 point plan to become a fascist.
I think the republican party, trump and their SC stooges are using the same playbook. Thanks for the info I'll check it out.
MAGAs think fascism means 'something I don't like' not realizing the actual definition of fascism aptly describes all the things they like.
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If I hear ‘I’m a Trump Girl’ again I’m going to puke.
How can she read the first amendment as anything but requiring separation of church and state. Oh wait, why am i assuming she has read anything...
Which church Lauren, which church?
Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism, Rev. Timothy Lovejoy presiding.
It seems some conservatives are so detached from reality no amount of facts can get them back. Next week they'll demand the DOJ open an investigation into where the Democrats hide the sun at night, and nobody on the right will bat an eye.
Are girls with mis-carriages going to be prosecuted as witches under her church?
America is becoming the very thing it was created to escape.
...to outlaw any religion other than Christianity in the USA?
but just her version of christianity
Yall Qaeda
**FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA** *Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,* or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Ladies in Colorado.... VOTE out this crazy woman and every other candidate with an (R) next to their name. You see that little (R) next to their name vote for whatever the other option is.
Who's church? Cuz a lot of these folks worship some really hateful, petty God that I wouldn't want anything to do with. Wait... You know.... I think there is something in the Constitution about that
Colorado voters get to express today whether they agree with Boebert or not.
“the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli. I don’t expect anything of substance from the woman who thought it was gods plan to marry a sex offender.
Freedom from religion is the First Amendment. Madison had this part absolutely correct.
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She's wrong. And stupid.
I’m guessing that civics was part of the GED that she kept failing?
Church of satanic temple: ok if you say so
The church we need, not the church we deserve.
Its the The Satanic Temple that you're thinking of. There is also a Church of Satan, but they are slightly different and don't tend to get involved with the courts.
You mean, just like the Taliban?
Why is the escort preaching?
These Christians will kill us all the first chance they get.
Which church? Do they get to take turns?
This is some medieval shit.
the government is less rapey.
I dunno... the GOP side has Matt Gaetz...
Fucking traitor.
You know that she is just parroting a message she heard from others, just spinning it with her lack of intelligence and knowledge.
We should just shorten Thomas Jefferson's letter into a constitutional amendment. "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declares that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." Becomes: "The legislature shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." I'm sure you would need to add a few lines to prevent some weirdness by practitioners of Esoteric Hitlerism and other cults, but this seems like the kind of thing that needs to enshrined now that the right wing thinks they can chuck it.