Working Hard to Make Christianity Illegal

I keep going back and reading the establishment clause of the Constitution, and how anyone can read it to mean that individuals and government can oppress the practice of religion mystifies me.  

It says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Out of that, we get the view that one can only engage in religious thoughts, behaviors and practices in the home and church. I think my favorite example of religious oppression and intolerance was a few years ago when a lawsuit was filed against a child for reading the Bible on the school bus on the way home. The bus was school property, thus government property, and reading the Bible on government property is in violation of the establishment clause. Truly. Ultimately the little girl, in a battle all the way to the Supreme Court, got to read her Bible on the bus. Jeeeez, such a horrible behavior. I guess running around on the bus, throwing things and getting into fights is much more acceptable.

The latest act of oppression brought to us by intolerant secularist bigots, regards a school principle that made a 30 second appearance on a video. The vid was a promo for an annual interdenominational prayer breakfast to honor teachers. This prayer breakfast has been held for 52 years in Santa Barbara, not exactly a Christian or Conservative stronghold. The Principle, Craig Richter of Foothill Elementary School, didn’t attend the breakfast, and made the vid on his own time on private property.

Some knucklehead member of the school board saw the promo on the internet, recognized Richter, and filed a complaint that he was promoting religion. The school district is taking disciplinary action and has put Richter on a ‘performance plan’. I suppose he’ll be sent to a reeducation camp next. The intolerant anti-Christian bigots of the school district are also threatening to cancel his contract.

Congress shall make no law has been perverted into 'we secularists and neo-atheists can do whatever we want to oppress freedom of religion'.

A great song by “The Talking Heads” has a line, ‘this isn’t my house, how did I get here?’. Sometimes I’ve go to wonder, this isn’t my country, how did I get here?