(October 24, 2015 at 7:58 pm)jenny1972 Wrote: sorry everyone about my OP somehow half of it became a link but its readable and you get what im saying ill try to fix it tomorrow so its not such a mess :p but oh well ..... i dont think we should just assume these religious extremists are harmless in positions of power we need to fight against all their efforts to bring religion into government and they are trying and yes it could happen of course if we let it . i think in the future we are really going to have to become active to keep a secular government . religious people should be kicked out of office first attempt at inserting religion
The closest brush we've had with Dominionism was the Bush-Lite administration. Dominionists are a pain in the ass because they never stop trying to slip prayer and creationism into schools, get laws passed legislating their backward morality and otherwise pushing against Jefferson's Wall of Separation. It rarely goes unchallenged though. Somebody always rises up, gets legal help from the ACLU and defeats their shit in courts. Like I said, they're a pain in the ass because they keep on trying. Their only hope of ever succeeding is to stack the courts with ultra-conservative judges. That doesn't work because even the conservative judges are only willing to go so far or they get sacked (like Roy Moore).
I think we have the level of activism we need (except in the Bible Belt). If they start to rise up and push harder, activism will rise up in response. They don't worry me.
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