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Thread #87904   Message #1663728
Posted By: JohnInKansas
07-Feb-06 - 08:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Religion=good folk doing bad things?
Subject: RE: BS: Religion=good folk doing bad things?
US Senate Bill S520 cosponsored by the above cited potential Republican Presidential Candidate.

A brief extract:
[quote]
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Constitution Restoration Act of 2005'.
TITLE I--JURISDICTION
SEC. 101. APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
(a) Amendment to Title 28- Chapter 81 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
`Sec. 1260. Matters not reviewable
`Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to review, by appeal, writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an entity of Federal, State, or local government, or against an officer or agent of Federal, State, or local government (whether or not acting in official or personal capacity), concerning that entity's, officer's, or agent's acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government.'.
(b) Table of Sections- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 81 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
`1260. Matters not reviewable.'.
[end quote]

The meaning and intent of this bill is to prohibit any hearing or comment by the US Supreme Court, and by extension by any Federal Court, of any protest against any public action that claims to be "in God's name."

The specific surface actions intended are to permit posting of the Ten Commandments in public places, and to permit mandatory school prayer where any local jurisdiction chooses to require it. It would, in effect, permit any local school board to prohibit completely the "teaching of evolution" and would allow the enforced teaching of "creationism" as the entire "science curriculum" wherever a local jurisdiction chose to do so.

Should a local judge decide that you need "anger management" training, he would be permitted to order, and you could not appeal his order, that you attend counselling at the church of his/her choice – not yours.

Should a local judge invoke the biblical punishment of stoning for blasphemy, the Federal Courts would be prohibited from hearing an appeal.

Additional text of the bill provides for the removal of any Supreme Court Justice, and by extension any Judge of any Federal Court, who offers an opinion on any case coming under this act.

While there remains, perhaps, some question whether the current President Bush really "believes" or is merely a political opportunist using the "born agains" as a source of political support, there is NO QUESTION that this Senator intends to impose HIS GOD on all of the world. The US is just a start, in his plan.

This bill failed to pass in the 2005 legislature, but not by a comfortable margin. It will almost certainly be re-introduced, in one form or another.

It parallels directly the imposition of a "state religion" by the newly elected Nazi political machine in 1933, in my opinion, and has just as much chance of eventual success. This, and other related actions already accomplished, and goals clearly demonstrated, by those associated with this Senator have every possibility of putting the US in exactly the same "nationalistic/religious expansionist" mode as was seen in Germany in subsequent years.

John