Separation of Church and State? Or ‘the wrath of a Holy God’

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker drew scrutiny after he invoked the threat of “the wrath of a holy God” in his legal opinion that embryos have the legal rights of children. Parker is a believer in the Christian Nationalist ideology known as the Seven Mountains Mandate which commands followers to control the ‘seven mountains’ of society — including government. An alarming number of prominent GOP figures, including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, have embraced Christian Nationalist ideas. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” wrote the Founders in the First Amendment, but today’s GOP seems bent on tearing down the wall between church and state. University of Miami Law Professor Caroline Mala Corbin joins Ali Velshi on the erosion of the Establishment Clause. 


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[mark-xxlt]

These people are insane. Get them out of government!!

[karenritcheydamon]

What happens to all the frozen embryos when the IVF centers close? Who will be charged with killing all the 'potential chuldren'? This is insanity.

[sdix]

Never trust a preacher whom tells you how to vote, or a politician whom tells you how to pray.

[shermantincher]

This is unconstitutional and the judge should be removed from the bench for being mentally unfit. Same for Mike Johnson who is coo coo for coco puffs.

[desperateambrose]

"My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to use it in any kindred manner, not only does no good, but does positive harm, and is in effect irreverence, which comes dangerously close to sacrilege." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

[sukn]

So a single cell has more rights than a woman. The only thing that baffles me is how many women are okay with this.

[patriciaweber]

A principle our country was founded on should not be ignored by the far right.

[krisr]

Every church talks politics from the pulpit should get a tax bill because they are no longer removed from politics. They only meet the conditions to be non-taxable if they don't preach politics.

[DanielIKing]

The writers of the Constitution had very recent memory of Britain collapsing into civil war because of the government's involvement with religion. King Charles I lost his throne and his head for attempting to enforce a religious uniformity that the various peoples of the British Empire would not accept. His execution in 1649 ended the monarchy for eleven years and sent shock waves across the Atlantic to the colonies of North America. Our country's founders had good reason to fear Christians battling Christians for control of the government and attempting to direct the lives of the citizenry.

[j.z.]

Any church that engages in politics should be considered a PAC and not a church, thus losing its tax-exempt status.

[Calm]

7 mountain backers have already put may religious representatives in the house and senate. Voters clearly need to avoid voting anybody from any party who represent any religion publicly.

[joanneferguson]

The separation of church and state forever! Keep the government out of our personal lives.

[peterdolan-green]

We need a separation between cult and state as well.

[Satans_lil_helper]

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

[mossydog]

Thomas Jefferson was asked why he thought the separation.of church and state was so important to him and the founders. He replied "because the lack of (the separation of church and state) has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries".
There are religious wars going on today in the middle east and elsewhere, do we want that here? The founders welcomed all faiths here and wanted our government to favor none and to disfavor none.

[leemarkley]

From another prior comment : "Thomas Jefferson was asked why he thought the separation.of church and state was so important to him and the founders. He replied "because the lack of (the separation of church and state) has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries". Amen.

[stoneageprogrammer]

"Those who would marry politics with religion must be prepared to reap the whirlwind." -Frank Herbert, The Dune Books

[stueyapstuey]

'Tax the churches! Tax the businesses owned by the churches...' as a great man said... back in 1981.

[anthonylorenzo]

If there is no separation of church and state and they want continue to tell us how to make laws in this country I think they should start paying taxes

[camelsheit_on_the_walls]

“The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened during the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe.”

- Frank Zappa, 1986