Kentucky elected a baptist minister to their House and he sneaks in an amendment mandating that a state agency acknowledge God in it's official duties. From the Lexington News: (h/t Ed Brayton) The 2006 law organizing the state … [Read more...]
JFK, Mitt Romney and “The Speech”
Throughout the campaign, pundits have wondered whether he would give a speech analogous to the one given by then-Senator John F. Kennedy in 1960 before the Houston Ministerial Association, to address concerns about his Catholicism and … [Read more...]
The State Church Movement
In the US, those prominently abusing this tenet are the fundamental Christianist evangelicals and the conservative factions of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches.They have inserted their particular sect practices and beliefs in our … [Read more...]