Big victory for religious liberty: beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/J… Congratulations to the Kountze cheerleaders!
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 8, 2013
From the linked story:
Hardin County 356th District Court Judge Steve Thomas on Wednesday ruled in favor of the Kountze ISD cheerleaders in a case about Scripture banners, said Beaumont Attorney David Starnes....Here's an example:
Starnes represents the 15 cheerleaders in their fight to keep Bible banners....
Each game this season, the Kountze cheerleaders have made Christian-themed run-through signs for the football players. The signs, which featured scripture verses, went viral and have now been stopped by the school district's leaders who were told by a group the signs were offensive and against the separation of church and state....
Gosh, only a silly liberal could look at a banner like that and think it represented government establishing a religion!
Maybe we should just concede the winger theory that the individual states have a right to establish their own religions. In blue America, I'm reasonably certain that we'd hash it out, embrace diversity, and decide we wanted to hold the line against a state-sanctioned faith. In red America, by contrast, the citizens who aren't evangelical right-wing Christians would swiftly learn just how welcome they are.
The reason the right is obsessed with the notion that Islam seeks to impose "dhimmitude" on non-Muslims, even in the West, is that right-wingers, if they had their way, would happily declare non-Christians to be lower-class citizens, people whose presence in America they merely tolerate.
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UPDATE: Bonus reason we should actively encourage Texas to secede:
Right now Jodi Arias is regretting not killing an ambassador or Philadelphia infant.
— Rep. Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) May 8, 2013
(Arias, about whom I know next to nothing, was found guilty of murder.)
