This will offend some people, and for any offence I apologize. [View all]

[bluesbassman]

I will not apologize for the truth of what I’m going to say however. We have been a secularly governed for 247 years. To be sure there have been religious zealots in positions of power at various times, but their ideological goals were mostly tempered by the common understanding of and adherencethe separation of church and state.

This didn’t mean that there wasn’t individuals and groups dedicated to bringing the United States under theocratic control. They understood that any group of people who would follow a belief system based on unverifiable faith would be easily controlled if that faith could be bound to the rules and laws backed by the government. You see the government IS backed by something other than faith. There is of course the Constitution and it’s amendments, there is 245 years of documented jurisprudence, the various bureaucracies that enforce the laws and maintain the system.

The takeover of the USSC by conservative theocrats was a stroke of luck through the unlikely election of undeniably the most corrupt and incompetent man to ever hold the office of President. He accelerated the plan by installing three individuals who are committed to overthrowing our secular government from within, and decisions like today’s web developer’s anti gay lawsuit is exactly the incremental step toward achieving that goal.

If one is religious and that belief and faith encourages and sustains them, more power to them. Religion, however deeply held the belief in it is, has no business commanding, directing, or managing the governance of any large group of diverse people. Today’s ruling should make that abundantly clear.