separation of church and state??

The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the 1st amendment recently. It is step one towards theocracy. The Court has now formally endorsed a christian symbol as a national emblem. That is what you get when courts swing to right. For years conservative Republicans have rallied against what they called, legislating from the bench, their code-phrase for judges who interpret the constitution as it was meant to be interpreted and refuse to endorse extremist religious views.

Now that the Roberts court is in session, true legislating from the bench is the law of the land. So we no longer hear those Republican voices.

First the court approved campaign contributions from rich corporations, and now it endorses christian symbols as American symbols. What's next you may ask?

Richard Dawkins correctly points out that we give religious types a very wide berth. For no reason really. Why do we hold back when priests abuse and rape children instead of being outraged and cleaning up the church? What stops the police from searching the premises for evidence of crimes? If any ordinary person abused children the way priests routinely do, we would put them in jail and throw away the key.

We have registries of sex offenders and we protest each and every time one moves into our neighborhood. Everyone gets really upset and we have laws keeping these criminals away from schools and parks. But what about the priests? We let them in and teach our kids!

While these "dangerous sex offenders" are often nothing more than boys who had sex with their girlfriend two days before her 18th birthday, these priests are men who molest boys (and sometimes girls) from age 7 onwards.

And we welcome and worship these men who abuse and rape our children. Why? Because they are priests? Because they are men of god and so they can rape our kids, while we stand around and watch? Surely, if god approves, who are we to criticize them?

And now we can watch when the Supreme Court protects the cross in the Mojave by endorsing it as a symbol of our nation. Go figure!