The ill-named Constitution Restoration Act of 2005 is a prime example of the Dominionist intent to remake the Constitution in the bible’s image.

If enacted, this provision would attempt to prevent judicial review by the Supreme Court of any decision by any government official or agent made based on his or her religious beliefs.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/di...9919/index.php


This one is not likely to be adopted anytime soon...but it's another "straw-in-the-wind" of what Christian fascists have in store for us.

At the end of last month, there was a conference in New York City to discuss the threat of the Christian right and what to do about it.

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/di...9918/index.php

Unfortunately, the tone of the conference was not a good one. Here is my response...

A couple of interesting excerpts from this article...

Frederick Clarkson, an independent journalist, urged progressives to reclaim not only faith...

...several identified the perceived disdain for religion on the part of much of the left as a significant obstacle in organizing against the right’s march toward dominion.
As the struggle against Christian fascism begins, we're going to hear this a lot -- the suggestion that "God" is "a liberal Democrat".

It is as if moderate Germans in 1931 got together and said to themselves something along the lines of "we have to reclaim anti-semitism from the Nazis".

That would not have worked then; it's not going to work now.

You cannot effectively struggle against a reactionary movement by accepting its basic premise. The basic premise of Christian fascism is that there is a supernatural entity to which obedience is owed.

Looking back, I think it was a great error on the part of German anti-fascists in the early 1930s not to attack the premise of anti-semitism "head on". Even the otherwise intransigent German Communist Party carefully removed candidates with "Jewish-sounding names" from its parliamentary lists.

I agree that "disdain" for Christian superstition is now obsolete; the jokes about it are no longer funny.

It would be much better, in my opinion, to confront the Christian fascists directly.

We should say clearly: you will not impose your barbarous superstition on us!

This is not Iran!