this is why I don't read the news

[anotheranon]

One step forward, 3 steps back appears to be the new rule:

Dubya sez: "America is a nation that values our relationship with an Almighty. Declaration of God in the Pledge of Allegiance doesn't violate rights. As a matter of fact, it's a confirmation of the fact that we received our rights from God, as proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence." Funny, I thought I recieved my rights from the Constitution, but I guess I've been deluding myself. Whoops, no more Constitution, so I guess I have none at all. </sarcasm>

In other uptight news:

Supreme Court Upholds School Vouchers - goodie! I get to watch my tax dollars go towards religious institutions that sure as hell don't need my hard earned cash...

Supreme Court Upholds School Drug Tests - just to make sure that public schools are even closer to the police state we'll all be living in if this sort of shit continues....

Excuse the excessive bitching but I think I'm justified. That, and I watched "Pump Up the Volume" last night and am inspired to be particularly vehement.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Alsion, I'm with you on all this all the way. And could it be more deeply ironic? Our tax dollars hard at work sending kids to religious schools so they, too, can oppose the removal of the words "under God" from the pledge of allegience. Excellent. Where do these people come from, anyway? I know there are a lot more of us heathen amoralists out there than this . . .

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I think most people are too apathetic to care. Most people I know (even unbelievers of different stripes) buy the party line that the U.S. is a "Christian nation" and are content to let these creeping theocratic rulings continue.

On the question of the Pledge, I'd also like to know 1) what business the government has devising what amounts to a "loyalty oath" - the thing wasn't even invented by or for government and 2) don't these religious fanatics realize that in pressing these issues they are only revealing their own insecurity wit their religion? If they had that much faith they wouldn't feel the urge to make everyone agree with them.