Religious law may be coming to America. But its not sharia; its Christian.

[workinclasszero]

Religious law may be coming to America. But it’s not sharia; it’s Christian.
By Catherine Rampell Opinion writer February 2

Much-dreaded “sharia law,” or something resembling it, may well be coming to the United States.

Just not in the form many Americans expected.

That is, the religiously motivated laws creeping into public policymaking aren’t based on the Koran, and they aren’t coming from mythical hard-line Islamists in, say, Dearborn, Mich. They’re coming from the White House, which wants to make it easier for hard-line Christians to impose their beliefs and practices on the rest of us.

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[dalton99a]

1. Specifically, evangelical Christian

[workinclasszero]

3. Right I'm a Christian

And I sure as heck would impose no religious laws on anyone. That's dominunist, 7 mountain, prosperity gospel heresy.

All these so-called Christians pushing this garbage are apostates and no followers of Jesus Christ IMO.

AND they totally fail as Americans as well! Even Barry freakin Goldwater hated these frauds!

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."

Barry Goldwater

[northoftheborder]

6. Agree.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Barry would be a Democrat if he were around today.

[Runningdawg]

17. No they aren't Christians

but they are now in charge of our country and more are being added daily.

[stopbush]

2. What in the hell would Xian law even mean in a modern society?

What is there in the Buy-bull that tells us how we are to regulate and govern modern society? Are we going to decree that any invention or scientific discovery that is not noted in the Buy-bull is now outlawed? That computers and the cure for polio must go? Do we take the vote away from women and insist on stoning to death any and all adulterous women? Do we allow parents to sell their children into slavery?

[handmade34]

4. interpreted as anything

the conservatives want to see acted on...

I grew up in a fundie home and we sure as hell don't want them in charge

[logosoco]

5. I would like to see them enact the one about not wearing clothes of blended fibers.

I hate poly/cotton blend clothes! It is cotton for me all the way!!!!!

[northoftheborder]

8. I wear clothes that have to be ironed....

....not that I love ironing, but cotton and linen last forever and are cooler and more comfortable. Some treated cottons can come out of the dryer without many wrinkles - and I'll buy and wear those.

[Orsino]

7. That's just sharia + bacon. n/t

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[sarcasmo]

9. Republican Jesus coming over for dinner.

[Solly Mack]

10. I'm buying a lion.

Look, if you plan on foisting your beliefs down my throat, it's only fair I get to defend myself against you. The lion part is a wee bit of an exaggeration, but the sentiment isn't. I am not a pacifist.

I see the imposing of theocracy as an act of war. There is no middle ground on this - if you approve and or stand silent when theocrats are stripping the rights away of people who do not conform to narrow-minded bigotry dressed up as religion then you are the enemy.

Of course not all Christians agree with the right-wing theocrats. I fully expect them to be vocal opponents to the theocrats.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. LOL! Oh you!

Like you, I also will not willing go back...in my case, back to the closet. You are correct there is "no middle ground". These are not the types which can be negotiated with in any form or fashion.

A threat to one is a threat to all.

[Solly Mack]

22. Maybe a lynx, though.

You're right, there is no compromises to be made with these people. They want to harm people and that can't be allowed.

[Behind the Aegis]

26. There's always Ollie the Bobcat from the DC zoo...he's on the run. Probably looking for work.

Just like we can't compromise, we can't turn on one another either. What has been really disappointing to me, but not at all surprising, are the attacks from our side against minorities, usually "unlikeable" ones, whom they (the attackers) think are getting "special treatment". The most recent attacks were against the GLBT because of the supposed 180 from the administration about reversing Obama's EO protecting LGBT federal employees. We (gay people) were "reminded" not to turn tail because nothing bad was happening to us. All this while people speculate if Bannon is really a homo, because you know, he drinks and has had three divorces. Homophobia (insert bigotry) is made worse when coming from those who are supposed to be on your side.

[Solly Mack]

28. I agree. No turning on each other because those of us who do not fit their ideal are all in danger.

I don't trust Trump or Bannon and the attacks on the LGBTQ community are still coming from the states.

Trump showed his hand with wanting to overturn the Johnson Amendment. If anyone thinks that doesn't encourage attacks on the LGBTQ community doesn't understand how bigotry works. That was a clear shout-out to the bigots hiding behind their religion to attack those they disapprove of.

Bannon is a miserable piece of shit who is now living his wet dream after years of being absolutely nobody. He's a small man, lashing out at a world that never found him good enough. No different from Trump, really. Both walking egos who don't think they're good enough while at the same time believing they never got the praise they deserve. The only difference is Bannon is smarter than Trump and he knows how to manipulate Trump.

Did you know Bannon thought Palin would be the one (his now Trump) at first? He quickly dropped that notion. He says she was unsuitable after all, but I think Palin wasn't as easily influenced by him as he hoped she would be. Palin is an idiot, but she's her own idiot. Trump is open to any flattery and follows it about gladly.

Bannon had been hoping for a populist-like candidate he could nurture into a president who he could then influence to implement his agenda. Trump is perfect for that. Not so much because he's a puppet, though he is, but because he also thinks like Bannon in a lot of ways.

[SamKnause]

12. EVIL fucks !!!!!!!!!!!

[t16hilos]

13. Author Sinclair Lewis had his finger on today's zeitgeist almost a century ago

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
― Sinclair Lewis

And, then there's this:

“The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store.
Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

[peggysue2]

15. Cycles of Destruction

If you buy into the theory that all societies follow a cycle of birth, development and decline, then one can assign this hyper-religiosity as an indicator that we're approaching Winter, the season of decline. The Daily Kos caught all kinds of Hell when it proclaimed the Religious Right a Christian Taliban. I'd say the analogy was prescient rather than outrageous.

Btw, the rise of demagogues and populist waves are also signals of democratic societies on the wane. FDR managed to stop the rising tide during his remarkable tenure. The tidal wave is on the horizon again. But this time, we don't have the steady hand of Roosevelt. Only the tiny hands of an Impostor.

[BigBoss]

16. No!

I will openly defy any religious law and fight it until o am not able to anymore.

[Runningdawg]

21. Will you continue to fight if

they take away your children? This is how the Native Americans were finally conquered. They were forced to choose between their way of life and seeing their children again. Don't think it can't happen - Trump wasn't supposed to happen.

[Runningdawg]

18. Look to the history

of Native Americans and "Christian" boarding schools, to see what comes next.
They will target your children, hence DeVos at EDU.

[workinclasszero]

19. Good example

No doubt

[TrekLuver]

23. They can try to impose their beliefs on me if they wish, but they shall not succeed....if

Catholic School and Church every Sunday didn't do it then they sure as hell won't. As a matter of fact all that religion had the opposite effect...I'm now an Atheist...

[Initech]

24. And Trump just advocated that they should go after the one thing keeping that from happening!

We cannot allow them to get their mitts on the Johnson Amendment! If they do it's game over. America will become a totalitarian fascist theocracy and there would be nothing we could do to stop it. We must stop them at every opportunity!

[Behind the Aegis]

25. And water is wet.

This has been happening for a long ass time. Living in Oklahoma, I have had the "honor" of seeing it up close and personal. OK tried to pass (can't remember if it did) an anti-Sharia law. It was on DU at the time and I remember commenting something like; "Yeah, I am really afraid of the 15 Muslims living in OK imposing their rights on me! I am actually afraid of Christian dogma being shoved down my throat."

Chris Rock said in a comedy routing years ago, "I ain't afraid of Al-Qaida. I am afraid of Al Cracker!" Well, the time has come to be terrified of Al's cousins, Bart Aloysius (B.A.) Christian and his wife, Ima. And who can forget AL's namesake, his granddaddy, Al T. Right.

[The empressof all]

27. Well as a Christian.....

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I would then expect every company in the country to post a notarized statement that they do not hire individuals who have engaged in premarital sex or who have been divorced. I could never let my bakery items be touched by hands sullied with masturbation. I couldn't possibly let my money come in contact with Sinners!
Jeeze----The stupid hurts....

[Cha]

29. It should be "Christian"