Thursday, January 14, 2010
Legislature / Politics / Woods If You Love Jesus, This Is Your Legislature
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM
"We pray that their sacrifices are not in vain, lost to a godless and apathetic nation. For it has been declared to the world that we are no longer a Christian nation. But as Americans, we cannot turn our backs on our history for it cannot be erased."The husband-and-wife team of Jack and Leigh Brown did the duties earlier this week in the Senate. In introducing the Browns, Sen. Delores Gresham--a staunch social conservative--described them as "prayer warriors," and they did not disappoint. Leigh Brown told the Senate that God had directed her personally to pray for our legislators each and every day for the past seven years, so that's what she has done.
"We come here because God sent us here on an assignment to be the encouragers to the people who stand here year after year like many of you. If you are 40 or over you were raised in the schools of Tennessee to pray. ... This is a Christian state. I am not politically correct for our nation, but I love God. We love God."Andy Berke has replaced Cohen as the Senate's only Jew. We think maybe it's time for Berke to have another little word with the legislature's leadership. Update: Mary Mancini would like to make a suggestion. Update II: Aunt B writes a letter to local Satanists.
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You should have been there. (I was.) Her Holiness Leigh Brown had a complete absence of presence and the worst case of verbal diarrhea that I have ever witnessed for any invocation, whether spurted from a prayer warrior or not. (It looked like her husband standing up there next to her was embarrassed to be seen in public with her.) I fully expected that one or more Senators was going to faint from having to stand so long through her incessant, hubristic, holier-than-Thou blather. She clearly belongs to the Pat Robertson wing of the Republican Party, as do too many other "prayer worriers" that our voting machines have blessed (sic) us with.
I was upstairs in the packed gallery where the "(neither) moral (nor) majority" had gathered to celebrate the defeat of the nonpartisan, good-government, pro-American Voter Confidence Act. I felt like I was in the presence of false prophets and sunshine soldiers for (anything but real) democracy. It was quite the "amen" corner up there, though my fellow gallery-dwellers looked and sounded more like flying monkeys than county election commissioners. (Of course, there were lots of skin-head interns up there too. I guess their legislators had no laundry for them to pick up, or cellphone photo "spreads" for them to appear in.)
The Pepto-Bismol concession is going to be brisk on Legislative Plaza this year, right up there with the prayer clothes. I can only pray tonight for a more activist God, who will start striking down those who steal elections and take His name in vain. It truly looks like we've been overrun by the Beelzebub Hillbillies here in Tennessee.
Would you say that Israel is a Jewish nation?
That Saudia Arabia is a Muslim nation?
Terry, I don't know where "Saudia" Arabia is. But I would say that a major foundation for Israel's security problems is ignoring the needs and rights of their many non-Jewish residents.
Our founding fathers (and mothers) tried to spare our country a great deal of grief by basing our political systems on a separation of church and state.
Of course, those who ignore history are ignorant (and they can't spell either.)
"Would you say that Israel is a Jewish nation?
That Saudia Arabia is a Muslim nation?"
Yes and yes.
But that doesn't mean the U.S. is a "Christian nation," as much as I would love us to be more like Saudi Arabia and all.
BTW, Tennessee is definitely not a Christian state. It is a Christianist state and there is a big difference. A Christianist is generally intolerant of people not like him/herself and uses selective interpretation of the Bible to defend their own culture and lifestyle and (from Wikipedia) "the quest to establish global Christian domination in all areas of world religious and secular society." Of course, this is actually the opposite of the Christianity of Christ but Christianists don't understand this and they never will.
Wonder why Tennessee Christians practice such blatant disregard for the teachings of Christ, yet cling so reverently to the preachings of aberrant interpretations of the bible by average men?
Credo,
When you get the answer to that question, please forward it to me as I have wondered that since I moved here 4 years ago!!!
Our Northeast Tennessee leadership within the Tennessee General Assembly is just bat shit crazy...
National Religious Freedom Day commemorates the Virginia General Assembly's adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. This vital document became the basis for the separation of church and state, and led to freedom of religion for all Americans as protected in the religion clause in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.
Religious Freedom Day is officially proclaimed on January 16 each year by an annual statement by the President of the United States. This day is commemorated by the First Freedom Center in Richmond, Virginia by an annual First Freedom Award banquet.
