{"id":53328,"date":"2022-10-27T19:20:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53328"},"modified":"2022-10-27T19:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:20:15","slug":"religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53328","title":{"rendered":"We are free from religion!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I want to express my outrage at politicians who continue to insist that the United States is a Christian nation and that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee that we are guaranteed to free ourselves from religion of any stripe.<\/p>\n

There. I just did express my intense anger.<\/p>\n

Too many pols keep insisting that their Christian devotion is good enough for everyone. Therefore, they advocate foisting Christian beliefs on students in public schools.<\/p>\n

There can be no greater perversion of what the Constitution lays out there than the idiocy being pitched by the likes of, oh, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado.<\/p>\n

She recently declared that this country is a Christian nation. It is nothing of the sort. The First Amendment to the Constitution spells out in clear, concise language that “Congress shall make no law” that establishes a state religion. As I have noted already on this blog, I cannot find a single mention of the words “Christian,” “Christianity” or “Jesus Christ.”<\/p>\n

Boebert’s congressional wing woman, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, called herself a “Christian nationalist.” Thus, she is proud to foist her religious beliefs on every other American simply because she was elected to Congress.<\/p>\n

The Constitution makes it abundantly clear — and the courts have affirmed it — that Americans are free to rely on the faith of their choice and that they also are free to be religion free.<\/p>\n

It is not illegal in this country to be an atheist, or an agnostic.<\/p>\n

Politicians who imply that it is illegal are as un-American as anyone in public life … and they should be tossed out of office.<\/p>\n

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