The great American novelist Upton Sinclair wrote:" When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross." I have written about the Christo-Fascist movement in America and its unholy alliance with the Republican party. Now, apparently, the movement has achieved a great victory in Delaware, by harassing a Jewish family for resisting the aggressive "Christian" takeover of a school district. I use the term Christian loosely, since American Christo-Fascism has nothing to do with the Gospel of the New Testament, but rather a rigid idolatry of the right-wing Republicanism. The complete story has been reported at this Web site. Here is an excerpt:
A large Delaware school district promoted Christianity so aggressively that a Jewish family felt it necessary to move to Wilmington, two hours away, because they feared retaliation for filing a lawsuit. The religion (if any) of a second family in the lawsuit is not known, because they’re suing as Jane and John Doe; they also fear retaliation. Both families are asking relief from "state-sponsored religion." […]
On the evening in August 2004 when the board was to announce its new policy, hundreds of people turned out for the meeitng. The Dobrich family and Jane Doe felt intimidated and asked a state trooper to escort them.
The complaint recounts a raucous crowd that applauded the board’s opening prayer and then, when sixth-grader Alexander Dobrich stood up to read a statement, yelled at him "take your yarmulke off!" His statement, read by Samantha, confided "I feel bad when kids in my class call me Jew boy." […]
A former board member suggested that Mona Dobrich might "disappear" like Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the atheist whose Supreme Court case resulted in ending organized school prayer. She disappeared in 1995 and her dismembered body was found six years later.The crowd booed an ACLU speaker and told her to "go back up north."
In the days after the meeting the community poured venom on the Dobriches. Callers to the local radio station said the family they should convert or leave the area. Someone called them and said the Ku Klux Klan was nearby.
This is the unintended (intended?) consequence of the Bush administration’s relentless assault on the separation of church and state, codified in the US Constitution.
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That’s so crazy…
“This is the unintended (intended?) consequence of the Bush administration’s relentless assault on the separation of church and state, codified in the US Constitution.”
Is this stuff so dumb that no one’s even reading it? The only comment, from littleandy, simply dismisses this nonsense. First, Americans know that Delaware is so small that no where in Delaware is two hours away, unless you’re walking.
Second, to more substance, separation of church and state is NOT codified in the US Constitution. The US Constitution forbids the US Govenment from establishing a religion. At the time the Constitution was ratified, several States had official, established religions, which the US Constitution forbid the US Government from touching.
This hardly paints a picture of a constitution codifying, demanding or requiring a separation of church and state. And what has the Bush Administration done? Basically, they’ve allowed the Federal Government to help fund welfare and social programs run by church or faith groups. Some theocracy.
You people pushing this Christian Fascism or Bush Theocracy line simply discredit yourselves to any informed person.
Read the 2006 Platform of the Texas GOP.
http://www.texasgop.org/site/DocServer/Platform_Updated.pdf?docID=2001
P.21 affirms that “America is a Christian Nation and there is no separation of Church and State”
Could have been written by the Taliban – substitue “Islamic” for “Christian”.
Do you need me to outline for you how the Southern Baptist Convention has endorsed torture? Basically, the Christian evangelical church in America has become a Cult of Bush.