Congressional resolutions: threat or menace?

[Douglas Laycock]

  I don't know anything about the intensity or sincerity of their
personal faith, but these nine alleged anti-Christian bigots include
a Baptist, two AME (African Methodist Episcopal), two Presbyterians,
two Episcopalians, one Unitarian, and one Jew. So 7 are Christian and
at least 3 (the Baptist and AME) are probably evangelical Christians. 
There are reasons other than anti-Christian bigotry for these votes,
like the greater religious content in the Christmas resolution.

  PC does exist, and there is anti-Christian animus, but it is not
lurking behind every disagreement.

  Quoting Will Linden <wlinden at panix.com>:

>
>    I have learned of yet another threat to our inclusive society
>
>
>> Dec 12, 2007 - Bill Action
>>
<http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj110-15>Scheduled[1]
for
>> Debate: H.J.Res. 15: Recognizing the contributions of the
Christmas tree
>> industry to the United States...
>> This bill has been added to a schedule of legislation to be
considered for
>> debate, or has been recommended by a committee to be considered.
>> (You are seeing this event because you are tracking
>>
<http://www.govtrack.us/congress/subjects.xpd?type=crs&term=Religion>Religion[2])
>
>     This was passed on Monday. It went by voice vote, so those
THEOCRATS
> who want to FORCE everyone to buy live-cut trees (it praises them
right in
> the "Whereas", so we know what THEY are really after) did not even
have to
> put their names on record.
>      If we raise the alarm, it may wake up those people who waste
their
> priorities worrying about triviality like the Protect America Act,
so we
> can make sure that the Senate buries this outrage as it did last
year.
>
>    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.
>
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Douglas Laycock
Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
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