Easter Ugliness

Easter Ugliness

 

Now that Easter Week is over, I feel a bit more comfortable commenting on all the ugliness that  accompanied the Christian celebration of the Resurrection.

Thanks to God, Americans live in a nation that enshrined both freedom of speech and the freedom to practice one’s religion in the First Amendment to the Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

There is no evidence anywhere in the Bill of Rights nor in the Constitution that the Founding Fathers envisioned any proximations of how the often-interrelated freedoms of religion and speech would be grossly misinterpreted, abused, and vilified more than two centuries after they composed those documents.

Indeed, how could they have envisioned America’s liberal leftists and the extremes to which they would go to subvert the free exercise of religion and the right to free speech provisions?

As for the former, they have succeeded in convincing secular courts that the words, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” mean that the Founders intended that there be an absolute separation of the established Christian church or any other religion and the American state.

They have been attempting to ban all references to God in public schools and in the public square as they diligently work to convert our nation into a godless society, while ignoring the fact that Jefferson, et al. merely wanted to ensure America would never be burdened with a mandated state religion comparable to the Church of England we had just escaped.

However, let’s focus here on some of the vile abuses of free speech, the Easter ugliness we witnessed in our country in the week prior to Easter and on Easter Sunday itself.  Those abuses ranged from the just plain stupid to the amazingly offensive. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36870.)