2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhen do we stop repeating what these nuts are saying?
They are fundamentally out of their minds and practically all of MSM on the right and especially on the left always give these fucked up stories a huge amount of coverage.
A couple of idiotic North Carolina House Members call for a mandatory State Religion and it spreads like wildfire throughout our political world. This gives these ridiculous stories more and more credence.
Thats why Im posting this:
From..Salon. Com.
Forget the theocracy North Carolina
By.....Elizabeth Williams
"The North Carolina push comes at a time when bozos like Tim Huelskamp, a Republican congressman from Kansas, can still declare their political choices are dictated not by the common good but the Judeo-Christian model God ordained. Yet the cold hard truth is that white American Jesus just isnt as influential as he used to be. Last month, a University of California, Berkeley, study revealed that one in five Americans have no religious preference double the number who were undeclared in 1990. And though one third of Americans identify as conservative Protestant, those numbers hardly say, Lets make a whole damn state officially one big Baptist potluck, now, do they?"
And thats why North Carolinas absurd little stunt is so pitiful. It represents a desperate power grab, a huffing and puffing and a Were still here, Lord! against the backdrop of a nation that is increasingly less religious, and in particular, less Christian. And regardless of how or even if we Americans worship, we didnt sign up for a theocracy here. This isnt what America and that even includes North Carolina was ever meant to be.
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/03/forget_the_theocracy_north_carolina/
msongs
(67,405 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)and letting everybody else take notice of it as well. What people don't know they can't fight/change. The problem is that some things like this will actually become law and the rest of us will have to live with the consequences thereof. People need to know what their whackadoodle legislators are doing on their dime.
Granted, though, it would be nice if these stories included some people/groups actually speaking out against and criticizing absurd ideas like these. I normally just hear about the loons and no real response or pushback, which I'm sure is there but we're not really hearing about it.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)I ment to say that, but it just didnt come out....
kardonb
(777 posts)" religion is the curse of humanity " : Karl Marx .
He had that one right !
Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)Pharisees
Thegonagle
(806 posts)This is as blatantly unconstitutional as it gets. There is no credence being given. NOBODY is going for it.
It spreads so quickly because it's so ridiculous that it's funny.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)But that won't happen anytime soon.
treestar
(82,383 posts)consider things like this. Such nuts should not be able to get elected dogcatcher. That there are enough people to vote them into a state legislature is a bit unsettling. It is good they get national coverage and embarrasses the voters in that district.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)How does that help?
treestar
(82,383 posts)Their idiocy is nationally recognized. They might learn their ideas are not the norm.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)If you think about it, they are a bit like Kim Jong Un. All bark and no bite.