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Rowan County Commissioner Jim Sides
Fundie Rowan County elected officials are out of control.
(Raw Story):
The group’s [ACLU] letter sparked a series of angry commentaries by commissioners, including an email by Commissioner Jim Sides who said he would “volunteer to be the first to go to jail for” the cause of official public prayer at government meetings. Subsequent meetings featured prominent public prayers led by commission members and public comment periods became stacked with enthusiastic Christians lecturing about how the liberal Supreme Court cannot impose its will upon the free people of America.
…Meetings since the ACLU’s letter in February have continued to prominently feature an official Christian prayer, 13 of which are documented word-for-word in the lawsuit citing specific Christian terminology like “the birth of Jesus Christ,” “the guidance of the Holy Spirit,” and the “virgin birth.
Because it’s about the Christianist point of view to the exclusion of all others. These cretins simply don’t get it. No amount of rational discussion will help. The dinosaurs just need to be bounced from office. At least some of the sane residents in the county spoke up:
Rowan County resident Shakeisha Gray in particular, a self-professed Christian who is not part of the lawsuit, was cited in the ACLU’s complaint after she faced boos for taking issue with the commission’s disregard for clear legal precedent.
“You were chosen to represent all of those who reside in this county: the Christian, the Jewish, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Pagan, the atheist, the agnostic and whatever else there may be,” she said. “My faith is not threatened by others who may believe different than I do. I’m not the only person in Rowan County who feels this way.”
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Aren’t these the same people who spit and drool when someone tries to oppress their god given Second Amendment right to a well regulated militia?
“Faith is believing in what you know ain’t true.” Mark Twain
Some people confuse bragging about being a Christian with acting like one.
That county had better audit the books. When fundies start throwing their religion in your face, you can bet it is a false front of piety and they are busy cheating and stealing.
Thank you for printing Ms. Gray’s comment. I’m always looking for heroes, and tonight she’s one.
Now, cue death threats from the county Christians…
These ignorants should consider that prayer doesn’t work. Witness willard’s election loss. Many people who would have voted for willard will have prayed to their gods in the hope to affect the election. They failed. Either prayer doesn’t work, or gods don’t agree with the people who pray, or gods aren’t, or gods are better Americans than they are. Regardless, these people are fools. Of course you knew that.
Oh you are so nasty! Tell me some more!
I suspect that these non-violent Taliban supporters also presume to foreswear themselves by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and also doing so with a straight face.
EdA, their correct name is Christianiban.
Does “Christianist” refer to some particular group of people who call themselves Christians? If not, I strongly disagree that bigotry represents the Christian view.