State bill proposes Christianity be Missouriâs official religion 12:28 AM CST on Friday, March 3, 2006 By John Mills, News 4 Missouri legislators in Jefferson City considered a bill that would name Christianity the state's official "majority" religion. House Concurrent Resolution 13 has is pending in the state legislature. Many Missouri residents had not heard about the bill until Thursday. Karen Aroesty of the Anti-defamation league, along with other watch-groups, began a letter writing and email campaign to stop the resolution. The resolution would recognize "a Christian god," and it would not protect minority religions, but "protect the majority's right to express their religious beliefs. The resolution also recognizes that, "a greater power exists," and only Christianity receives what the resolution calls, "justified recognition." State representative David Sater of Cassville in southwestern Missouri, sponsored the resolution, but he has refused to talk about it on camera or over the phone. KMOV also contacted Gov. Matt Blunt's office to see where he stands on the resolution, but he has yet to respond.
Exactly what happens when the ACLU sues everyone in sight over the word "god" and states are now banning abortion because people are sick of it being shover down their throat allowing 12 year olds to get abortions without parental consent. Liberals started the battle and are losing badly on all fronts. Should have just kept your f*cking mouths shut.
(Now we know that Tony Blair is as fucking crazy as Bush. Geez....he doesn't have to answer to the law, to the voters, to democracy, to country.....only to God? Isn't that EXACTLY the same position the EXTREMIST FUNDAMENTALIST MUSLIMS take?) Blair: 'God will be my judge on Iraq' By Andy McSmith Published: 04 March 2006 Tony Blair has proclaimed that God will judge whether he was right to send British troops to Iraq, echoing statements from his ally George Bush. Contradicting warnings from advisers not to mix politics and religion, the Prime Minister said that his interest in politics sprang from his Christianity and its "values and philosophy" had guided him in public life. Explaining how he managed to live with the decision to go to war in Iraq, Mr Blair replied: "If you have faith about these things then you realise that judgement is made by other people. If you believe in God,it's made by God as well." His remarks, made in an interview to be shown on ITV's Parkinson show tonight, invite comparison with President Bush, a born-again Christian, who has made a virtue of bringing religion into politics. But they also carry the risk of inflaming opinion in the Arab world, where the term "crusader" is commonly used to condemn Christian leaders who meddle in the Middle East. It is also exactly the sort of comment he has been repeatedly urged not to make for domestic purposes, because of the risk that a sceptical British public will react badly to politicians who appear to be "preaching". Mr Blair was instructed by his former director of communications, Alastair Campbell: "We don't do God." As well as invoking God as the final judge of the Iraq war, Mr Blair also explained how his religious and political beliefs came to him simultaneously. "There were people at university who got me into politics. I kind of got into religion, politics, at the same time, in a way. And until the age of about 20 I really wasn't very interested in politics at all," he told Michael Parkinson. "That's how I got interested in it." He refused to accept a description of himself as a "Christian socialist" - but only because the phrase contained the "s" word. "It's a long time since anyone used the word socialist about me," he said. He agreed that his politics could be described as Christian "in terms of the values and the philosophy". He also confirmed that religion illuminates his politics. "If you have a religious belief, it does - but it's probably best not to take it too far," he said. Roger Bacon, who has been trying unsuccessfully to meet Tony Blair since his son, Major Matthew Bacon, 34, was killed in Iraq, said last night: "This would explain why he won't see the parents. How can he speak to us when God told him to send the troops out to Iraq so our sons could be killed?" And Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon was killed in Basra in 2004, said she was "quite disgusted" at the comments made by the Prime Minister. The Military Families Against the War campaigner said: "How can he say he is a Christian? A Christian would never put people out there to be killed. "A good Christian wouldn't be for this war. I'm actually quite disgusted by the comments. It's a joke." During his eight-year premiership, the only decisions that have caused Mr Blair sleepless nights have been those that involved taking the UK to war, he said. But he added: "The only way you can take a decision like that is to try to do the right thing, according to your conscience. And, for the rest of it, you leave it to the judgement that history will make." Mr Blair refused to say whether he had prayed for guidance on whether to send British troops into Iraq - which has cost the lives of 103 British troops, 2,300 US soldiers, and up to 30,000 Iraqis, with many thousands maimed or injured, in a conflict which has claimed more lives since the fall of Baghdad than the war itself. There have been persistent reports that Mr Blair joined the President in prayer for God's guidance at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in 2002, at the summit at which many people believe a secret decision was reached to invade Iraq. The claim was made in a book by the Christian author Stephen Mansfield, who said he had heard it from White House officials. It was later backed up by a writer on Time magazine, David Aikman. Mr Bush once told Palestinian leaders: "God would tell me, 'George, go end the tyranny in Iraq' and I did." Mr Blair's Cabinet includes several deeply committed Christians, such as Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, who is a Roman Catholic, and the Chief Whip, Hilary Armstrong - but they rarely break the injunction not to mix religion and politics publicly. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article349125.ece
I completely disagree with any government institution naming any religion as that institution majority religion. However I do agree that with the ACLU type going around suing anyone who preached Christianity because it is offensive to some other religion while at the same time allowing those other religions to offend Christians, this type of reaction was bound to happen. On another note. Give it a few more years, maybe a decade or two, and there is a good chance the same thing will happen between Blacks and society. The majority will only take so much pushing on uintil they act. And since they are the majority the minority will most likely lose. The minority has forgotten that and now think that because in the US minirity rights are protected they have the right to more protection than the majority. Consequently the majority end up getting pushed around by the minority. It will only last for so long.
This Nevada Wiccan was killed in action. Looks like his wife is having trouble getting his VA memorial plaque. I'd order it to be delivered tomorrow if I were the head man in DC. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-02-Thu-2006/news/6149634.html