Fla. Mayor acts like christian fascist
The excellent Talking Points Memo has a story about the mayor of Winter Garden, FL behaving in a decidedly non-patriotic manner. In fact, it would be reasonable to call him a christian fascist. What did Mayor John Rees do? He evicted a local citizen who refused to stand for the invocation (i.e., christian prayer) and the national pledge of allegiance. Since a city meeting is not a religious service no one is obligated to stand, bow their heads, or do the hokey pokey during the invocation. Neither is it appropriate to demand a loyalty oath from citizens; especially when that oath has been corrupted by the xian majority (the “one nation under god” change made in the mid 1950s to distinguish the USA from the “godless” Russians).
The refusal of the citizen to stand is legal and cannot be reasonably construed as disruptive. The mayor’s justification? The citizens act was disrespectful to American troops. A justification that irritates me almost as much as “won’t someone think about the children.” Sadly I think it will take a lawsuit and the city spending a lot of precious tax dollars to make the mayor and other council members realize they don’t get to use their positions to shove their religion down other peoples throats.