In my naivete I assumed when important political figures grossly and knowingly lie and violate the constitution by making laws based on religion that are clearly meant to skirt federal laws of long standing, there must be some federal laws being broken that would stop these people from doing such wrongs. Since the practice seems to be continuing without interruption, am I wrong or are people skirting the law with rationalizations?
Mitt Romney gave a speech at Notre Dame as though all America is Christian. Some media people balanced (for the sake of our collective sanity) by playing a 30 year ago speech by Mario Cuomo which took into consideration that we are not all religious nor Christian. Brandeis, a predominantly Jewish sponsored university takes in students of all faiths. A commencement speaker touting Judaism as a singular great religion and all people who practice it as being the most moral, etc, would be similarly insulting.
It seems to me to be about time religion is treated the same way as homosexuality is treated by some religious people. We should assume that it is a choice to have this illness which can be cured by thinking logically and accepting that churches are just another big business and should pay taxes like all other institutions do. Those of us who are not partaking of religious institutions should not have to pay taxes to support them (indirectly as we all do by their tax-free status). To my knowledge, there is nothing in the Constitution saying that churches should be tax exempt. Unfortunately that has been taken advantage of by cults and charlatans claiming to be heads of religions.
States like Kansas and Oklahoma are behaving as though they have seceded from the other United States in the bizarre way they are making restrictive laws and interpreting them as presumably based on Bible scripture. When religion can dictate what can be taught in our public schools, or not, the separation of church and state has been violated. When politicians can override medical prescriptions, there is a great deal wrong with our system.
Mitt Romney gave a speech at Notre Dame as though all America is Christian. Some media people balanced (for the sake of our collective sanity) by playing a 30 year ago speech by Mario Cuomo which took into consideration that we are not all religious nor Christian. Brandeis, a predominantly Jewish sponsored university takes in students of all faiths. A commencement speaker touting Judaism as a singular great religion and all people who practice it as being the most moral, etc, would be similarly insulting.
It seems to me to be about time religion is treated the same way as homosexuality is treated by some religious people. We should assume that it is a choice to have this illness which can be cured by thinking logically and accepting that churches are just another big business and should pay taxes like all other institutions do. Those of us who are not partaking of religious institutions should not have to pay taxes to support them (indirectly as we all do by their tax-free status). To my knowledge, there is nothing in the Constitution saying that churches should be tax exempt. Unfortunately that has been taken advantage of by cults and charlatans claiming to be heads of religions.
States like Kansas and Oklahoma are behaving as though they have seceded from the other United States in the bizarre way they are making restrictive laws and interpreting them as presumably based on Bible scripture. When religion can dictate what can be taught in our public schools, or not, the separation of church and state has been violated. When politicians can override medical prescriptions, there is a great deal wrong with our system.
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