Congressional resolutions: threat or menace?

[Steven Jamar]

On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:45 PM, Will Linden wrote:
>
>    Meanwhile, Get Religion notes:
>    "Of the nine representatives, all Democrats, who voted against the
> Christmas resolution, seven supported both the Ramadan and Diwali  
> measures.
> Those seven were Reps. Gary Ackerman and Yvette Clarke, both of New  
> York;
> Diana DeGette of Colorado; Jim McDermott of Washington; Bobby Scott of
> Virginia; and Pete Stark and Lynn Woolsey, both of California. Rep.  
> Alcee
> Hastings of Florida did not vote on the Diwali resolution, and Rep.  
> Barbara
> Lee failed to record a vote on the Ramadan measure."
>     Of course, this could not possibly mean anything, since PC does  
> not
> exist and there is no anti-Christian animus anywhere.

7 votes of 350 is your measure of effective, meaningful anti- 
Christian animus in Congress and the government?

Oh.  You said "anywhere."  Well, I'll bet you're right.  There are  
some folk who indeed are anti-Christian.

But this vote certainly does not prove these representatives are.   
I'll bet at least a few of them are Christians themselves.  So we're  
back to non-individual animus but institutional.

Sorry, Will, that dog don't hunt.

Steve


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