I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make half the world fools and half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world.Thomas Jefferson, in his Notes on Virginia.
While the marginalized right wing continue to hijack the faith of my childhood and the spiritual foundation of my secular adulthood, Gov. Bush baits the cage with his support of Alito as his nominee for the US Supreme Court. Having flaunted constitutional mores by disastrously nominating another Texan Harriett Miers, on top of the prohibited nomination of Texan Richard Cheney as his VP.
(The 12th amendment states that the electoral college must not vote on candidates for President and Vice President if they are from the same state. Cheney, a long time Texan resident, set up an "official residence" in Wyoming just days before he was nominated to the ticket. A nomination by the way, that came after an exhaustive search committee chaired by one R. Cheney failed to find a more suitable candidate)Bush is now flaunting separation rules by tacitly offering a religious acid test as proof of fitness to govern for this strangely (and worryingly) activist New Jersey Appeals Court judge.
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