House to Consider Evangelical Resolution 888 by Rep. Randy Forbes (R-va) and 31 other RW nuts.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011408A.shtml

House Passes, Considers Evangelical Resolutions By Jason Leopold

A Republican congressman, who has spent the better part of the past two years on a mission to ensure Jesus Christ has a place in all aspects of federal government, has introduced a resolution to designate a week every year to honor the nation's "rich spiritual, and religious history."

House Resolution 888, sponsored by Congressman Randy Forbes (R-Virginia), is currently before a House committee and has 31 co-sponsors. It purports to be free from singling out a specific religion, yet contains dozens of proclamations with clear fundamentalist Christian overtones. Five pages of footnotes cite specific Bible passages, the Gospels, churches, and include Biblical references taken from historical monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial.

"This resolution, which purports to promote 'education on America's history of religious faith,' is packed with the same American history lies found on the Christian nationalist websites, and in the books of pseudo-historians like David Barton," Rodda wrote on the Talk2Action web site. "It lists a total of seventy-five 'Whereas,' leading up to four resolves, the third of which is particularly disturbing - that the U.S. House of Representatives 'rejects, in the strongest possible terms, any effort to remove, obscure, or purposely omit such history from our Nation's public buildings and educational resources,' a travesty of the highest magnitude, considering that most of the 'history' this resolve aims to promote in our public buildings and schools IS NOT REAL!"

Separately, Forbes has also introduced two bills, one that would protect the rights of lawmakers to express "their religious beliefs through public prayer by removing all establishment clause cases involving prayer by public officials from federal court jurisdiction to the jurisdiction of state courts." The other legislation Forbes introduced "would bar judges from awarding legal fees to groups that sue municipalities for violating the Constitution's ban on government establishment of religion."

[Red Zelda]

1. Who votes for these crackpots?

I know. Crackpots.

[Mz Pip]

2. Forbes needs to

educate himself on "America's history of religious faith" before he tries to introduce such legislation.

Doesn't the HOuse have better thenings to do with our tax dollars?

Perhaps this is a perfect example of why we need to have tax increases. If the American people want to send idiots to represent them then they should be willing to pay for the time these idiots waste once they get in office.


Mz Pip
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[Me.]

3. Thank God Someone Is Finally Focusing On An Important Issue

Those who think issues such as the war, the economy, the crimes of the * admin should be given priority must be the spawn of the devil.

[liberal N proud]

4. Have any of these ass-hats read the writings and statements of the founding fathers?

[Virginia Dare]

5. The continual pissing on the Constitution..

and contempt for the founding principals of this country astounds me...:wow: Sometimes I think we'd be better off giving these people what they think they actually want and see how they like it. If we continue to allow these fuckwads to jam their religious beliefs down our throats than we get what we richly deserve, the CHRISTIAN TALIBAN.

There are VERY GOOD REASONS why this country was founded on a clear separation between church and state. Wake up and get a clue America!

[TwilightZone]

6. Sounds more like Evangelical Resolution 666

[benld74]

7. NFW!

[ixion]

8. yet another crock from our congress

:argh:

While we sit here sinking, they're making resolutions about praying on the taxpayer dime and reworking their gourmet dinner menus. :argh: