Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion

That's the first sentence fragment from the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The founders of our democracy apparently thought it was important enough to place first among the additions to that beloved document. The people who forced Pandagon to shut down for a bit (it's back up now and, while Kevin Hayden recommended we all repro Amanda's post about her hate mail in support of her, the way things move in internet time that ship has sailed) want to establish a religion. They are therefore anti-Constitution, anti-Bill of Rights and anti-American. I do not want their version of religion forced upon me. Belief is a personal matter between a believer and his or her deity, and anyone who tries to impose it from without will have as much success as, say, those who try to impose democracy on another country (particularly from the barrel of a gun). I'm saddened that I have to explain this at all.

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