‘know, I love the Library of Congress. Even more than that, I love that it’s online, because that means I can go check this crap out for myself. From the link:

     Jan. 11 - Flush with last year’s success in passing H.Res. 847, “Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian Faith,” Christian nationalists — those who would have the United States be governed as a Christian theocracy — are pushing H.Res. 888, another resolution which promotes a false and distorted Christian nation reinterpretation of our history. Generally, we do not take action regarding resolutions because they are ceremonial in nature and express the non-binding opinion of one chamber. They do not have the force of law.
     However, this resolution is so outrageous that YES votes — even with its ceremonial form — would send a dangerous message to history and civics educators throughout the United States. Teaching an unbiased account of our nation’s founding and its governance will be curtailed; in its place supporters of this resolution clearly call for a revised history of the United States as a Christian nation.

     The resolution is available here for you to read for yourselves, and I highly suggest that you do. I only had time to give it a quick scan this morning, but I can tell you one thing: This resolution is talking strictly about the history of the Christian religion, and doesn’t seem to mention any of the many other religions in the US. That right there I find exceedingly annoying.
     Seriously, does it hurt to read history? I mean, I myself have never had a particular problem reading my history, but as far as I can tell, reading up on your history must, like, cause other people to go into extreme seizures of agony or something. When our ancestors came to this country, it was to — and I realize this may come as a shock to you — escape religious persecution. Granted, they were a bunch of fundie nutters who were escaping being persecuted for being too fundie for some of the European churches, and they were, in fact, some flavor of Christian, but the crux of the issue is that they were escaping religious persecution. The country was founded on the idea that it didn’t matter which religion you were escaping persecution from — if you came to America, we weren’t going to tell you how to worship.
     Now, you and I can quote mine all we like to support our position. I, myself, think it’s fairly clear that the Founding Fathers weren’t particularly religious. Several of them were vague deists at best, and several of them had a few things to say supporting the use of reason over blind faith to a religious authority. Regardless of how religious you may believe the Founding Fathers to be, the fact of the matter is that they wrote our Constitution to exclude religion from government, because they could see that no good would come of mixing the two.
     Bad enough to write a resolution pushing a “religious history” of the US — even worse to then exclude everything but Christianity. Out here in the real world, that’s what we call “prejudice”, “racism”, and “bigotry”.

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