From FIREDOGLAKE
(Raw Story):
The group’s [ACLU] letter sparked a series of angry commentaries by commissioners, including an email by Commissioner Jim Sides who said he would “volunteer to be the first to go to jail for” the cause of official public prayer at government meetings. Subsequent meetings featured prominent public prayers led by commission members and public comment periods became stacked with enthusiastic Christians lecturing about how the liberal Supreme Court cannot impose its will upon the free people of America.
…Meetings since the ACLU’s letter in February have continued to prominently feature an official Christian prayer, 13 of which are documented word-for-word in the lawsuit citing specific Christian terminology like “the birth of Jesus Christ,” “the guidance of the Holy Spirit,” and the “virgin birth.
Because it’s about the Christianist point of view to the exclusion of all others. These cretins simply don’t get it. No amount of rational discussion will help. The dinosaurs just need to be bounced from office. At least some of the sane residents in the county spoke up:
Rowan County resident Shakeisha Gray in particular, a self-professed Christian who is not part of the lawsuit, was cited in the ACLU’s complaint after she faced boos for taking issue with the commission’s disregard for clear legal precedent.
“You were chosen to represent all of those who reside in this county: the Christian, the Jewish, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Pagan, the atheist, the agnostic and whatever else there may be,” she said. “My faith is not threatened by others who may believe different than I do. I’m not the only person in Rowan County who feels this way.”
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I spent a year living and working as a pediatrician in rural South Carolina. My wife sometimes points out that my PTSD from that experience far exceeded by PTSD from five years during the war in Viet Nam. A horror show that is beyond rational understanding, I agree. I have become a fan of succession since that time. Anything to get away from those people. I grew up mostly in Louisville, Kentucky. I erroneously thought I was from the South.
ybera
I think we should give all of the states south of Virginia to Mexico. That is where they belong.
That would be awful for Mexico. Although giving them Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico makes a lot of sense. No one should be saddled with Texas.
y
Hey, there are a few of us decent folk down here… We are trying to move the community in a better direction. And if you gave us to Mexico, apparently I’d have to learn to pray to Jesus in Spanish as well as English, just to attend a local meeting!
Texas really needs to be its own country. Then it would make sense for the decent people of Texas to take action. Now it just serves as a convenient pirate hideout where super predators can take refuge while robbing the rest of us with impunity. To be fair, Manhattan should be expelled as well. It already is its own country, for practical purposes, and is sucking the life out of the country like the Texas criminals. My hope would be that all the worst folks would become refugees to Texas and Manhattan where they could enjoy their predatory life styles (of course just until the decent people took over). I know it doesn’t make any sense. Little does these days.
ybera