“no preference shall be given to nor any discrimination made against any church, sect or creed of religion, or any form of religious faith or worship.”

Yet another lie. President Bush did not sell the ports to anyone. In fact, the ports were never for sale. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (British corporation) sold to
The UAE . Part of the sale includes control over shipping facilities at 6 US ports. This is just another example of how radicals lie about the specifics of an issue.

For those who don’t know the specifics, all the Bush administration did was sign off on the deal after it passed
unanimous approval by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States. Congress then had 30 days to object but not a single member cared to file a complaint.

Please visit this link for something that might make you smile:

http://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2006/03/mask-has-fallen.html

Oh, wait. That’s exactly what they just said.

But I’m glad you’re cool with it. So, when say, Dearborn, Michigan, with its huge Muslim population, decides to recognize its majority religion in a “sense of the council” City Council resolution, you’ll have no problem with that, right? When they want to issue the Muslim call to prayer five times a day through the public school intercom system, that’ll be fine, just so long as the Muslim students are bowing toward Mecca *voluntarily*.

This is yet another American Taliban attempt to proclaim “Hey, most of us are Christians! We get to enjoy a special status in America! Y’all are free to worship your false religions, as long as you all acknowledge that we are a Christian Nation and that Christianity is superior to all your false religions. Our religion is the reason why America is so great! Hurray for Jesus!”

Is it an Official Proclamation of State Christianity? No. Does it forbid the worship of other religions? No. But this is the first baby step toward that. Why does a government entity need to be saying *anything* about one religion or another? The only purpose it serves, besides demagoguery and rilin’ up the Bible-thumpin’ voters, is to tell everyone in the state that Missouri thinks Christianity is neato keen

The strangest thing to me in all this crumbling of the wall between church and state is that the wall exists to protect religion from government, not the other way around. Tony Campolo put it this way: “Mixing church and government is like mixing ice cream and cow manure. It doesn’t ruin the cow manure.”

Admit it. You’d freak out if California passed a reolution promoting Scientology, Buddhism, or any religion aside from Christianity, even if it wasn’t any sort of legally binding bill. Take any of your Christianity arguments, substitute the word “Islam”, and see how you like the sound of it. (This is a variation on my “substitute ‘President Hillary Clinton’ for ‘President George W. Bush’” test I give righties when they defend Bush selling ports to the UAE, or illegally wiretapping, or torturing prisoners, or invading a country illegally, or not finding WMD, or vacationing while New Orleans is washed away, or reading “My Pet Goat” while the Towers are struck, or outing a CIA agent during wartime, or setting record deficits, or not testifying under oath to the 9/11 Commission, or holding secret energy meetings with Big Oil, or just losing $8.8 billion in Iraq… you get the idea…)