The Bush-appointed Conservative Supreme Court demonstrated once again that it has no clue as to the meaning of the words “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Five of the Nine Lords of Wisdom and Intellect stopped a lawsuit, by taxpayers, against the Faith-Based Psychopath’s faith-based initiative that has funneled 1.7 billion dollars to 159 religious groups, who have virtually no accountability for how they use the money.
The reason given by the bright lights of the Conservative majority on the court: taxpayers have no standing to sue.
According to the Globe today:
Writing for the majority, Alito said the federal budget is so big “it is a complete fiction to argue that an unconstitutional federal expenditure causes an individual federal taxpayer any measurable economic harm. And if every federal taxpayer could sue to challenge any government expenditure, the federal courts would cease to function as courts of law and would be cast in the role of general complaint bureaus.
Let’s see now. The feds are giving money to religious groups. Taxpayer money. Your money. Your taxes. Despite the First Amendment. Despite the express separation of church and state. You have absolutely no recourse. And before the religious troglodytes get on their high horse about my comments, perhaps they should consider how it would look to them if the government was funding atheist groups and agnostic groups, and slighting religious organizations.
And there’s yet more weaseling from Alito:
Alito noted that the Supreme Court had previously made an exception under which taxpayers could sue if Congress appropriates funds in a way that violates the separation of church and state. But in this case, Alito wrote, the faith-based initiative funds were “paid for out of general Executive Branch appropriations” and therefore were not directly funded by Congress.
No, you bloody-minded twit, they were funded by taxpayers! Who now have no recourse in law or the courts because Alito et al think it’s a good thing to drag the country back into the Dark Ages when Conservatives ruled like the oligarchical barbarians they aspire to be.
I call these men cowards because rather than address the central issue of the separation of church and state, they simply gutted the taxpayer’s rights, allowing the Little Psychopath’s programs to continue unimpeded by reason, by law, by accountabilty, by sanity. Destroying the rights and liberties of the citizenry is exactly where the right-wing radicals and extremists of the Bush era intend to keep going.
The direction is fascism. Men like these are plunging us into it. And most Americans don’t care, or don’t see it because they don’t want to see it, or don’t see it because they want to be safe and secure in their little adult cribs.
There’s no security without freedom, and the Lords of the Court and their masters in the White House are determined that we shall have neither. They will take our freedom in the name of security and then they will invade our homes and arrest us in our beds for daring to speak against them.
Come home, America. The danger you fear lies in the very heart of the country.
But it’s OK with you if taxpayers give their money to gay activists or late term abortion clinics. Right?
Yes. Gays and abortion clinics aren’t out to subvert the Constitution and aren’t out to force us all to follow one religion. Gay activism is a civil rights issue. Abortion clinics provide a necessary medical service.
When you mix religion and government, people get burned at the stake. Christians tie gays to fences to die and Christians bomb abortion clinics.
You’re talking apples and oranges.
I didn’t say all abortion clinics, just those that perform abortions in the 8th and 9th month, killing a human being that could have lived.
As for gay activists. Let them pay their own way. That’s fine with me. But no taxpayers money should go to their political agendas.
You don’t know much about the Christian groups helping the poor in Costa Rica and El Salvador, do you?
Are you a medical doctor? Are you trained in OB-GYN? No, most likely. Which means you have no business, and neither do the judges and the politicians, interfering in health care matters between a woman and her doctor. There are legitimate reasons for late term abortions. Medical reasons. Ignorance and arrogant superstition have no business in a doctor’s decisions.
As for the Christians here, there and wherever, no, I don’t care one way or the other as long as they use their own money to push their religious agendas. Want to help kids in El Salvador? Get the money from your congregation. But when the Dobsons and Falwells and the Robertsons want to dirty the political life of this country with their arrogance and ignorance and lust for theocracy, no, not a penny. And not for any other group pushing a religious agenda along with their so-called charity. There’s a reason the founders wanted a strict separation of church and state. It’s written in blood in the history of humanity.
And the gay activists, or whatever? Let’s see, you want tax money to go to religious organizations that discriminate against gays, that revile gays from the pulpit, that preach hatred of gays, and so on, but the gays shouldn’t get any tax dollars to defend their civil rights against what amounts to government sponsored discrimination when tax dollars go to religious groups.
Hell of a position you got there, fella. Thanks for the comments. Have a nice life.
You haven’t been to a Christian church in years. So you must be a bigot. You are so full of BS, have a nice, wasted life.
Spoken like a true Christian, Mick.
In fact I’m an atheist.
I have no illusions about either of us changing the other’s mind on any of these issues. I suggest we both tend to our respective readerships, rather than wasting time and energy arguing our respective inflexible positions to each other.
Nice sunglasses by the way, though you might think about getting rid of the black bar behind your head. Looks a little strange, like a device out of Star Wars. Seriously.
Have a nice day, Mick.
“…wasted life…”
Another irony meter, down the tubes.