Someone earlier wanted proof that the religious wrong was trying replace the constitution with biblical rule. Here we go...

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40805

The re-introduction of this bill on March 3rd seemed to have been hardly noticed. It was first brought up last year by Senator Richard Shelby, Rep. Robert Aderholt, and Roy "Ten Commandments" Moore. I wonder if section 201 of the CRA will affect Article VI, Sect. 2. (born of, the 2004 thread (s))

If you can't bring Mohammed to the mountain...

Wow. That's fucked up.

Now the fun part will be that even if they succeed in removing that bit from Supreme Court jurisdiction and law is somehow recognized as coming from God, they still can't specify *which* God the law comes from. It doesn't look like this proposal endorses any specific God.

So I think if this passes, people should start submitting bills with backing from the most obscure deities they can find.

I would suggest Dionysos, the god of wine, madness and the theatre. Sounds like we could get some good legislation from that.

Or Pan. Pan was basicly a god of nature and pretty scenery, but he had a cadre of buck naked chicks, called nymphs, that followed him around and danced when he played his flute.

So, Pan is obviously a God worthy of worship. I mean, guys look up to anyone who has managed to score with two chicks at once. Pan had hundreds. I'll bow my head in silent respect to that.

We all know which god is being referred to. There will be no freedom of religion.

Ah, but there's the rub. The law appears to move some part out of SC jurisdiction. To specify *which* god is meant doesn't fall under this bill, which means it's still under SC jurisdiction, which means it would violate the first amendment and the SC could strike it down.

Of course, IANAL.

Philo?

I think that's called succession, isn't it.

Please let the world know if you do this. I'll go back to China.

???

Because China is so much more free than the US?

I just remembered a quip from (I think) the Sydney Morning Herald when the Monica Lewinsky story was just breaking: "Thank God we got the convicts and they got the Puritans." ;-) ;-)

I wish that I could find it as funny now as I did then...

uh...be glad you're there and not here?

Nope. Then, as now, I'm planted in front of a computer, roughly in the upper middle of Flyover Country, USA. ;-)

Oh...my bad. I thought you were in Australia, not an Aussie living in BFE, USA.

At least my skin is yellow.

If US becomes a theocracy, it will conquer Canada. If history repeats then someone who is not in majority will get persecuted.

Hmm...I wonder what we can "Blame Canada" for...

Our chief weapons are surprise! ... surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope ... er, and donuts.

Recognize gay marriage?
Legalize marijuana?
Decriminalize heroin?
Provide Abortion?

That raises an interesting question: Would the U.K. have to come to the aid of Canada as part of that whole "Commonwealth" thing?

Just what the US has been aiming for...US against the world!

Or, would the U.K have to come to the aid of the USA as part of that whole "special relationship" and "NATO" and "UN security council" thing?

Yikes! Good point. This is starting to look like the onset of WWI...

> This is starting to look like the onset of WWI...

If you wanna risk starting that, you could also consider trying to annexe Antarctica.

Or Mars. I mean, why else would Bush want to go there but to provoke other countries by violating space treaties?

</troll>

Yeah, there's a whole *solar system* we haven't pissed off yet, fer cryin' out loud! What's Bush waiting for?!! The Martians have WMD and are out to get us: Didn't he read "Stranger in a Strange Land?" ;-) ;-)

Canada is part of NATO.

Hm. I thought 'the creator' gave us alienable rights.

Evolution created me.

I'm still in beta... ;-)

And here I thought you were over 18...

In conflict?

"And here I thought you were over 18..."

Good one! :) I'm 37, and I *still* feel like I'm impersonating an adult. Wonder how old I'll have to be before that feeling of putting one over on a whole lot of people goes away... ;-) ;-)

Have a good weekend, Mr. Stanton--and thanks for the laugh.

Hey, glad to. I did think you were over 18, but not 37, so you did have me fooled. There seems to be a lot of the late-20's crowd here. I was starting to feel almost alone.

As far as when you stop feeling like you're pulling one over on people...my mom is 19 years older than you, and says she still feels young, so you have plenty of time. :)