Virginia official: Non-Christian public prayer violates my rights ‘because I don’t believe that’

[doxydad]

A group that lost its U.S. Supreme Court case over prayer at public meetings said recent comments by a Virginia elected official illustrate the risk of allowing such sectarian invocations. “I think America, pretty much from Founding Fathers on, I think we have to say more or less that we’re a Christian nation with Christian ideology,” Bedrosian said. “If we’re a Christian nation, then I would say that we need to move toward our Christian heritage.”

Those remarks echoed statements he made several years ago in an editorial published in the Roanoke Times, where he described freedom of religion as a “hoax” and claimed “the global warming crowd worships the environment as god, the abortionist has the death of unborn babies as their god, and the homosexuals have sexual freedom as their god.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/12/va-official-non-christian-public-prayer-violates-my-rights-because-i-dont-believe-that/

Because we are all one religion, one belief system. ..well..except for the homosexuals...what a self righteous douchebag!

[RKP5637]

1. What a creature he is, diabolical, right from the depths of hell. I'm not

a religious person, but I went to church and all as a youth, where kindness to all was taught, and I recall well them saying the devil comes in many disguises/forms, something like that. These individuals need to be continuously called out, they are not representative of any decent religion, just their own warped self-serving version allowing them to practice persecution and hatred.

[trusty elf]

16. the devil comes in many disguises

[IMG][/IMG]

[Skidmore]

2. Push back.

I keep saying this. Push back hard. Silence give oxygen to the flames of intolerance. All should be able to participate or none at all in this area. We are not a Christian nation but a nation of many groups including Christians.

[VanillaRhapsody]

7. and SHAME them...

[yellowwoodII]

22. Yes

The silence of people who are not religious is conducive to upholding the religious status quo. I don't really want to offend religious sensibilities, but I've learned to say, "I'm not religious." That isn't "in your face," but it sends a message of disagreement.

[Skidmore]

23. It is also the silence of those who practice religions that allow these radicals to flourish

in the absence of criticism.

[hatrack]

3. His ability to detect irony and/or hypocrisy does not approach zero . . .

It clearly is zero.

[hobbit709]

14. If it approached zero it would be a major step up from minus numbers.

[Fumesucker]

19. The light from zero won't get to him for ten billion years n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

24. It's divide by zero.

[edhopper]

4. As with the disastrous

Voting Rights ruling, The Roberts' Court is shown to be wrong almost immediately.

[yellowcanine]

5. “If we allow everything, where do you draw the line?” Well that is easy. Don't allow any of it.

No prayers, and you have no problem. I would't expect a Dominionist to get that, though.

[on point]

6. He understands neither letter nor spirit of constitution

It was created to protect us from. Mean spirited fools like him

[Baitball Blogger]

8. You knew they were going there, right?

This isn't a surprise to anyone, outside of the Supreme Court Justices.

[marble falls]

9. This twit was elected?

[merrily]

10. All public prayer from government violates all our rights.

Too bad the courts don't seem to agree.

[freebrew]

11. They found Roanoke?

Damn, I thought it disappeared around 1620...


There are survivors?

(there still isn't a smiley for cynicism)

[stuartsdesk1]

12. Here's a Good Prayer for SCOTUS

Here's a good prayer that the Supreme Court can recite to open their sessions -

Dear Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer, Mammon, Belphegor et al -

Please guide us in our deliberations along the path of righteousness, you know, right-wing self righteousness.

Lead us not into temptation, any temptation to actually read the Constitution and render judgments accordingly.

And forgive us our errors, because we are indebted, and must pay back the folks who put us here on the bench.

For ours is the power and the glory forever - with NO TERM LIMITATIONS.

Amen ! Verily and Truly !

For a lighter commentary on the Supreme Court please see http://stuartsdesk.com/Tea_Party_Tales.html

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Sexual freedom *is* pretty fucking awesome.

This goofball should definitely give it a go. Might learn somethin'.

[hobbit709]

15. And Christian public prayer violates MY rights because I don't believe any of that either.

[DesertDiamond]

17. And this is the whole reason not to allow ANY prayer in government or school settings. Because

a whole lot of Christians just can't stand to hear other people's prayers. And if an atheist got up and announced the simple believe that there is no supreme being, those same Christians would absolutely bust a gut.

[BlueJac]

18. WTF?

[Tsiyu]

20. My "Oh-The-Irony" Meter just frickin' exploded

[scheming daemons]

21. I'm not a homosexual..... but can I worship the god of sexual freedom too?