Emperor Mike Huckabee would completely outlaw abortion and grant
zygotes full citizenship. How is he going to get those teeny rifles up
in there?
Friday, September 4, 2015
Scalia-loving Tennessee judge: Straight couples can’t divorce if same-sex couples can marry
A local judge in Tennessee has refused to
grant a divorce to a straight married couple, citing the U.S. Supreme
Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage as one reason he cannot let
the man and woman untie the knot.
Breaking News To Evangelicals: Dog’s Law Does Not Supersede the U.S. Constitution
It may come as a shock to Kim Davis that in America there is no
higher authority than the Constitution, no matter that she believes…
There is a relatively well-known quote attributed to Theodore Roosevelt that says, “No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.”
Of course, despite the fact that nearly every American has a specific
law they disagree with, they generally obey the laws as required unless
they are very bigoted and very religious. There is a seriously twisted
belief among many evangelical fanatics that although they live in a
nation of laws spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, they contend that
their dog’s laws trump the law of the land and now Supreme Court
decisions.
Despite the fact that the Supreme Court ruled that
same-sex couples have the same 14th Amendment right to marry as
opposite-sex couples, there are still plenty of evangelicals that refuse
to follow the law. In Kentucky, the county clerk who continues to defy
several court rulings ordering her to do her appointed job and issue
marriage licenses to gay couples, is now apparently appealing the U.S.
Supreme Court’s order
on Monday that she has to obey the law to her dog almighty; what she
contends is the law of the land. Kim Davis, the woman who lusts to be a
true 'christian' martyr for bigotry, once again refused to do her job and told a bevy of reporters that indeed, she has the right to refuse to follow the law of the land “under dog’s authority.”
Of course, if Davis actually read her christian bible she would be
aware that dog’s authority (the bible) tells her to obey the government
authority, but this is America and evangelicals follow a bastardized
version of christianity; one that disavows the entire new testament.
What may come as a shock to Davis is that here in America there is no
higher authority than the Constitution, or the Supreme Court, no matter
that she believes otherwise.
This issue is a result of, mainly, Republicans
preaching that an evangelical has very unique religious freedom rights
to disobey any law that they claim infringes on their 1st Amendment
right to worship, pray, and attend church without government
interference. In Davis’ case, performing her duty of collecting money
for a license to marry does not, in any possible way, infringe on her
right to pray, read the bible, sing Psalms, or attend the local
mega-cult. Generally, a sane person would say that if Davis does not
want to obey the law and perform her duty as a county clerk, she should
just find a different job. At least that is the opinion of an
ultra-wingnut, ultra-constitutional originalist and ultra-delusional
Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia.
Scalia wrote for the majority in Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith that the idea of any American believing they have “a private right to ignore generally applicable laws is unconstitutional” and if allowed would lead to “anarchy resulting from a system in which each conscience is a law unto itself.”
In another High Court ruling, Scalia opined that a public employee with
objections to laws on religious ground should either just do their job
and shut up or find different employment. He said, “They have, after all, taken an oath to apply the laws and have been given no power to supplant them with rules of their own;”
or supplant them with dog rules that are not the law of the land any
more than the christian bible is the Constitution. However, there are
Republicans who believe that the Constitution, common sense, and the
Supreme Court are dead wrong and support Davis’ defiance and now
contempt of court.
Republican pretender candidate Paul came out in defense of Davis who is finally facing
contempt of court charges for violating the court order that she has to
do the job she is getting paid for and issue marriage licenses to
same-sex couples. Paul’s defense of Davis is consistent with his
cosponsoring legislation, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) that
prevents the government from acting against businesses or non-profits
that blatantly discriminate against same-sex married couples. In fact,
Republicans as a group have adopted, and endorsed
FADA by attempting to justify all forms of discrimination against
same-sex couples the rnc claims should be legally permissible despite
the Constitution’s 14th Amendment; another reason Republicans want the
Amendment abolished.
It is nearly certain that Kim Davis is convinced
that because Republicans have become the official legislative arm of the
extremist religio-wingnuts, and have spent an inordinate amount of time
and taxpayer money legislating according to religion, that she is on “a
holy crusade mandated by god almighty.” It is, in great part, due to the
recent seriously distorted interpretation of the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act (RFRA); a direct result of the above Supreme Court
decisions that ruled no, religious freedom is not freedom to, as Justice
Scalia wrote, “have a private right to ignore generally applicable laws.” In fact, in the alleged “direct utterances of dog almighty” in romans 13, god commands that christians “must
be subject to the governing authorities, for no authority exists except
by dog’s permission. The existing authorities have been established by dog, so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what dog has
established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.”
Obviously
Kim Davis is going to bring judgment on herself according to biblical
mythos, but her present concern should be the contempt of court charges
she is due to face in the very near future. To demonstrate how perverted
her interpretation of her religious freedom really is, she faces being
either fined, imprisoned, or terminated from an $80,000 a year job
because she is a typical evangelical bigot. Instead of resigning, she is
intent on being a 'christian' martyr because she cannot get it through
her delusional mind that the U.S. Constitution, and not the Hebrew
scriptures is the law of the land; a mindset that is more prevalent than
most Americans want to believe and a very dangerous portent that this
country is being primed to become a theocracy
Kim Davis’ son refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses in Kentucky after mother is jailed
Kim Davis Reveals Republican Cabal Support For Sharia Law
Republicans rip the First Amendment to shreds in order to oppose gay marriage.
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
The Daily Drift
Welcome to the Thursday Edition of The Truth be Told.
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Our week on the mountain was great.
It was nice to see old friends again.
Late
last Wednesday we got a call from a friend we had not heard from in
several years saying that he and his wife had just bought some land in
the mountains next to ours and wanted us to come up and spend some time
with them and some other friends at the new place.
We spent the entire week since there.
Turned
out they had bought the other side of the river from us so that between
us we own over a mile of riverfront on both sides of the river - a
private paradise for ourselves and our friends.
Unfortunately we
had to return to the work-a-day world and bring this blog up to speed -
tomorrow we will be back to our normal schedule.
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Robert Reich: Three Steps To Restore The Balance Of Political And Economic Power In The US
In less than three minutes Robert Reich lays out the three steps the
US needs to take, in order to restore a balance of political, social and
economic power.One of the biggest lies in American politics
Other than Reagan was a real president ...
It just enriches huge companies at everyone else's expense.
The Republican Cabal is a Cabal of Fascists
Salon sums up the current Republican cabal as follows:
The Republican cabal tends to preach and practice
intolerance, xenophobia, nationalism and anti-democratic values (i.e.,
voter suppression). The Republican cabal is anti-enlightenment, and
embraces passion over reason. The dangerous denial of climate change and
other scientific facts seems to come out of the corrupt alliance of
anti-intellectual traditionalism and corporate influence (i.e., oil and
gas).
Now, the fact of the
matter is that
old fascism did not die in the mid-20th century it just slithered under a
rock. The Republican cabal are obviously neo-fascists, and share a
family resemblance. As stated above, the base
have many similar passions — traditionalism, nationalism, intolerance
towards immigrants or minorities. They react with hostility towards the
social progress of others and largely believe in a ‘survival of the
fittest’ ideology.
Giovanni Gentile, the “philosopher of
fascism” and ghostwriter for Mussolini, said of the definition of
fascism in the Encyclopedia of Italiana: “Fascism should more
appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and
corporate power.” This definition may very well fit the Republican cabal ideology: a
kind of corporate fascism, where large corporations have the ultimate
power; where the politicians spew a hateful, intolerant ideology based
on “traditional” values, on a platform funded by corporate interests,
elected by the people to serve those very corporate interests; and deny
environmental degradation because it would be unprofitable for the
funders to do anything about it, using the anti-intellectual hostility
to convince the people that it is nothing more than a left-wing
conspiracy.
To read the entire Salon article, click Trump is a fascist: What his surging popularity says about the Republican cabal base.
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