#Trump doesn't understand the #Constitution, and he doesn't give a shit about upholding it. The government cannot discriminate, or levy punishments against people on the basis of their beliefs, or participation in #protest. The Founders believed this to be such an important principle that they made it the #FirstAmendment to Constitution. #TrumpIsAFascist, and if given the chance he would destroy our republic in favor of a dictatorial #autocracy.
Why is this elected official, paid by the American people, using his power to engage in #viewpointDiscrimination, and violate the #FirstAmendment rights of individuals and businesses that express ideas he doesn't personally agree with?
"Minnesota is poised to prohibit #bookbans in #schools and public #libraries... The law establishes... a 'Library Bill of Rights' and states that libraries cannot restrict access to material 'because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.'"
They are using the premise of a #spiritualWar to pave the road for the #UnitedStates to become the #Christofascist#theocracy they so jubilantly pray for—and intimidating students protesting the violence in #Gaza and trying to claim campuses for their own brand of #Christianity is their latest battleground.
In the latest installment of Oklahoma's elected officials not having the necessary background to do their jobs, we have this:
The Satanic Temple plans to place ministers in Oklahoma schools if new bill becomes law
Of course Oklahoma legislators don't want those chaplains in schools. And, it apparently never occurred to them that allowing one religion means allowing ALL religions. I don't even think this is some misguided 1st Amendment challenge. It's just ignorance, ignorance that doesn't belong in public office. #Oklahoma#FirstAmendment#ReligiousFreedom#SatanicTemple
Religion and religious institutions or entities are two entirely different matters in law.
No religious institution has the right of access to anything public.
But every believer in a religion has the right of his own expression in public.
But the purpose of public school is not religious expression of any kind. The purpose of public school is education for the cultural and commercial benefit of the society. Our civil society and all its laws, and the very fundamental principles of our laws are founded on and originate from the Lex Talionis of the Old Testament and the Golden Rule of the New Testament and are uniquely and fundamentally Christian. Every attempt to undermine that is a treasonous attempt to collapse the society into chaos and belam. The separation of powers clause is straight out of the Bible. The rights of man being superior to the preogatives of government is straight out of the Bible. It did not originate with the Greeks or Romans, whose 'democracy' and 'republic' was a form of racial supremacist fascism. These western principles of law originated with the Nazarenes who carried forth the Bible and the Gospel to the world.
The modern concept of the nation state as a vessel that affords equal rights to all inhabitants is a fundamentally Christian idea. Even when it was ephemerally practiced in the ancient world it was because of the influence of Hebrews or Christians on the rulers of the Empires of those ages.
Whatever is calculated to disrupt that end of equality before the law, and substitute it with a false and destructive equality, regardless of your claims of 'religious freedom' such treachery can and should be limited and curtailed by public policy. It is called the, 'necessary and proper' clause. Under the common law it is called the peace and order of the state.
The freedom of Satanists to offend and blaspheme against the vast majority is neither necessary nor proper, and is a false equivalence. Everyone who worships Satan should be in a lunatic asylum, along with you. Putting satanism on equal footing with the faith that gave us our liberty is beyond insane. Nobody has the right to promote the worship of devils and demons. The only right they have is to have their heads examined.