*sigh*

What ever happened to intelligent thought?

Sorry Elliot, this is Texas… & I’m a native, too.

Now, you know, if you were a seriously religious person- and not simply using religion as a cover for your political viewpoints- you would hate a theocracy. It would be anathema to you.

After all, in a secular government, your religion will be left well enough alone- you’ll be free to practice it as you wish- because the government has no interest in religion.

But in a theocracy, where the government’s interest IS religion, they’ll be telling you how to do it, how to go about praying, where to do, when you can, etc.

I mean, really. Theocracy is the ultimate proof that someone is not interested in God; it’s just an excuse to force a political regime on a nation. Think about it. Has there ever been a theocracy that was not an excuse for politics? Not from today’s state of Iran to the Spanish Inquisition and beyond can you find any theocracy that was ever intended to be about God (or Gods, depending) but was, instead, about politics.

It died a hard death in the 90s.

AFAIAC, It’s freedom FROM religion. I won’t put my orthodoxy on you, and you better damn well not put it on me!

But it’s Perry you’re talking about, so why should I expect anything else.

Taliban in a Ten Gallon Hat. Pffft.

I happen to be a religious person, but I also “believe” in separation of church and state. I fully respect your right to be free from religion and I choose to be part of a religion.

our governor – Ta Da! – bless his soul.

Don’t forget the good hair!

LOL! I keep forgetting – Governor Goodhair! The Blago of Brazos!

Well thank you Jebus for that. So who’s going to be his Secretary of Religious Enforcement? Chuck Norris, maybe?

I don’t recall anyone in this Administration ever telling anyone who or what they could worship.

The previous Administration is another story altogether…

10 Gallon hat tip to Molly Ivins. RIP.

Not that I like Kay Bailey H., but I hope she kicks Perry’s ass in the upcoming election. Imagine, Jebus being upset by a girl.

What is the Church of Texas?
everything I’ve learned was that the establishment clause was in opposition to a mandated religion.
oops, I said mandated in a post about Gov. Goodhair.

KB Hutch must now make a bolder more stupid Christianist fascist remark.

What will she say?

FYI “inspired by” is not theocracy.

BTW love the new look.

Besides, theocracy is simply unconstitutional. Not that that document has had much to do with Rick Perry’s life.

It got ate by Intelligent Design.

I say Rick Perry minces words. To hell with no religious test. I vow to fill my cabinet with white fundamentalist Christians only (no Catholics or Jews cuz they’re all hellbound).

-Kay Bailey Hutchinson

Texas, soon to be God’s Kingdom on the Pecos!

What a stupid thing to say. Does he kiss my ass with that mouth?

I say let him have his white supremacist theocracy of Texas. His soon to be Span… um, I mean, Mexican-speaking, brown majority, majority-disenfranchised-by-gerrymandering white supremacist theocracy. The revolution will be fun to watch. He and the bugman can reprise Custer’s last stand at the gates of Sugarland.

You know, every time someone makes noises like Gov. Goodhair made they should be assigned remedial reading on the English Civil War with particular emphasis on the role played by State religion in that episode. An essay ought to be required to demonstrate clear understanding that forbidding the establishment of a State religion is better than a good idea. It might be the best idea in the whole Constitution. goD knows there are enough turkeys in the original document: slaves = 60% of a free person and the Electoral College are just starting points.

You know, they’re telling us which cars to buy and which lightbulbs to use now. But they ought not be telling us whether we can go to Baptist, Methodist, whichever one,” he said.

Gosh dern it! I hate when they tell me whut lite bulbs ta use. If I wanna use a power burnin’ bulb and drive a gas guzzler that’s my god-given right. Dick Cheney sez our lifestyles is non-negotiable.

Mom, kin I barra yer car? Mine’s on E.

*sigh*.

Me, too.

Maybe the heat wave has finally fried what brain he had?

Goodhair had a brain?

Who knew? As near as we could tell here in The Land of Enchantment that pile of hair was covering an anencephalic monster.

“You know, they’re telling us which cars to buy and which lightbulbs to use now. But they ought not be telling us whether we can go to Baptist, Methodist, whichever one,” he said.

OK! Which ones of you was telling him what church he had to go to?! Come on, fess up, cuz you are scaring him and he might pee in his David Vitter Specials.

Send him lotsa tequila. It might pickle what is left of his brain.

I’m afraid today’s southren Babtists would pee themselves in rage and denial if it were gently explained to them that the original American Baptists back in the 1st thirteen colonies were among the most enthusiastic supporters of separating Church and State.

And of course, their heads just explode when you point out that it’s that separation that is undoubtedly the reason the U.S. has the highest proportion of church/synagogue/mosque/temple-attending citizens in the “free world.”
(Oh, now don’t ask me for the cite. I’m sleepy. But I know it’s true!/s)

Being a native-born Texican, I just ask your prayers for me as a progressive in Kansas dealing with the dimwits of Roberts, Brownback, and Tiahrt. Then there is that political wasteland between Kansas and Texas. Maybe Perry ought to rally the troops and invade Oklahoma, then secede, leaving Kansas as a buffer-zone; now there is an idea his advisors might want to consider.

Seeing as it’s nothing but emotional distraction to inject religion into politics, it then becomes nothing but emotional reaction (which is emotion itself) to take the bait, and start arguing back, and turn political discourse into an unruly tent show revival, of “us versus them”.

If political hacks want to try and whip up and manipulate their little flock, then let them… and if the people of Texas want to teach their sons and daughters that we are all descendants of some person or animal on Noah’s Ark, and want this taught in their public schools, then what business is it of yours or mine, unless our children also attend Texas public schools, in which case we’d do better to simply tell them different, and teach them also about how injecting religion into politics is just emotional bait etc.

This stuff is just too old and too stupid to matter, and it’s always better to stay focused and undistracted in political discourse.

Urban Texas is trending blue so, hopefully, Goodhair will only get the rural vote. Not that the blue areas will motivated to vote for either, mind you, but maybe Kay will be seen as the “adult”.

Read “The Family”. It’ll scare the Bejebus out of you. Nutjobs like Gov. Goodhair have already spread like a virus all through our government. Powerhungry elite fundmentalists eschew the social gospel in favor of submission to an old testament God of murder and vengence. In their view, morality is a secular plot for wussies. They believe Jesus was a warrior (and also a free market capitalist). Jesus = love and love = blind obedience to the demands of God as passed through (almost always) men (mostly white) whose characters and behaviors are often deeply flawed, or even criminal in the secular world. “Jesus plus nothing” is their mantra. They work 24-7 for nothing less than an American theocracy. And, with apologies to Leonard Cohen, “first they take America, and then they take the world.”

Quoted for truth, mon ami.

It’s not even an Old Testament God. Old Testament God fucks your shit up, but He does it mostly if you cross Him. They believe in a crazy Angry White God, who loves the white peoples and hates the rest of them.