American Taliban?
Posted on January 18th, 2005 by JTkPosted in politico |
While one of the stated reasons for invading Afghanistan was to liberate its long suffering people from a repressive theocracy, it seems that some of the same folks that voted for that invasion would like to impose their own version of a theocracy here in the homeland.
The bill is called the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 and claims to “limit the jurisdiction of Federal courts in certain cases and promote federalism.” But what it really aims to do is forbid all legal challenges to government officials who use the power of the state to enforce their own view of “God’s sovereign authority.”
This bill may seem shocking if taken out of context, but when one considers that many feel that our Commander and Chief is also the John Ashcroft and Tom Delay are card carrying members of the evangelical nation, this bill, as well as the U.S. policy on the middle east begins to make sense.
And although the religious extremists are trying to revise history, it is obvious that the only article in the constitution that directly addresses religion is the sixth and it plainly says “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States“.
Follow Up(s): MSNBC has posted an article outlining the influence of the conservative Christian political movement inside the Bush administration.
And grist.org thinks that Christian-right views are swaying politicians and threatening the environment.
American Fundamentalists, Christ’s Entry into Washington in 2008 by Joel Pelletier is a ‘watch dog” type site.
Wayfarier has posted this on a similar topic.