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Friday, March 03, 2006

Welcome to the TheoDome

Kneel before Christian Zod:

Missouri legislators in Jefferson City considered a bill that would name Christianity the state's official "majority" religion.
 
House Concurrent Resolution 13 is pending in the state legislature.
 
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."


I, for one, welcome our theocratic overlords! By the way, "protect the majority's right" has to be the up-is-down quote of the decade. 

Speaking of which, I noticed this quote, which saddened me:

Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.) said the Catholic Democrats "have decided to stop letting others define us." But Tom McClusky, a Catholic who is acting vice president for government affairs at the Family Research Council, predicted they would fail.

"What is at the core of being Catholic is the life issue, and that's something the pope has never strayed from," he said. "While other issues are important -- such as helping the poor, the death penalty, views on war -- these are things that aren't tenets of the Catholic Church."


That's sad for the Church and organized religion as a whole, to distill an entire message of love and compassion down to that.

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