What do Oklahoma and Idaho have in common?
One thing is basing their defense of so called “religious” actions on lies.
Some guy who claims to have Bi-polar disorder confessed to have driven his truck into the Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol.
He did admit that the devil made him do it, but only he can testify to that.
At least his confession helped to avoid the usual scapegoats, like atheists, Gay people, papists, or the ACLU, having to take the brunt of people’s rush to judgment.
Oh, I forgot the Muslims, the latest go-to guys
Oddly, if one looks at the actual placement of the monument, it can be seen that the side with the 10 Commandments on it was facing the state capitol building, so that passers-by could only see the plain, grey back side as they passed by.
A rather odd way to display a moment.
A way to guarantee that even though it was there, people could not really see it.
It seems as if the only thing that actually mattered was that someone had won a battle and got the monument to be there, and not that it could actually edify anyone.
There had been the legal gymnastics to get around the monument’s being a clear violation of the state’s very own constitution by claiming the Commandments are an historical thing, which conveniently brings it out of the realm of any religious basis, but completely ignores that most of what is in them was actually in the Code of Hamurabi first.
So, for historical reasons, if that is the true basis for allowing the monument, it should have been Hamurabi’s list, perhaps in a recreation of the ancient frieze of him next to his code.
Now we have the governor making these I-am-more-offended-than-you are statements to, well, basically kiss the butts of the Christian Community there where she is up for re-election.
The action of a single, mentally ill person has now been proclaimed to be an act of violence. Odd, as objects cannot be the recipients of an act of violence. Objects are targets of vandalism.
But that wouldn’t promote the “persecution” narrative.
Then the governor claims it was an attack on the people of the state, as if every person in that state holds the Ten Commandments in the same light that some do, and as if all the people of the state agreed with the monument being there.
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They didn’t.
It’s being there was seen by some as the actual attack.
Had he smashed into the actual State House, that might be a different story.
If the soon to arrive statue of Baphomet, a figure who has played a part in history is similarly attacked, will she see it as an attack on the people, or, will there be a clever explanation to dismiss that while at the same time not appearing to be selective?
Then in Idaho you have another Christian action that is based on anything but the truth.
The city council of Coeur d’Alene passed an equal rights ordinance which included the non-heterosexual citizens who are no less citizens than the heterosexual ones.
The Hitching Post wedding chapel owners, Don and Evelyn Knapp, are ordained ministers who, instead of establishing a church which would result in limited weddings and the “offerings” that come with them, opted to open a for profit “wedding chapel” like the ones you see in Vegas where anyone who wants a wedding just has to pay the fee.
They opened a business and not a church, but now they want to be exempted from the equal rights ordinance because they have religious reservations when it comes to treating all people equally, and claim the city is violating their constitutional rights to free speech and religious freedom by forcing them to solemnize same-sex marriages.
Their supporters in the religious and conservative press jumped in making the claim that the city intends to arrest and jail the couple, and had sent a letter to them to that affect.
The thing is, no one has filed any complaint against the wedding chapel that would have required city action, so the city hasn’t actually done anything.
This is basically the case of opponents of marriage equality having based some of their opposition on the idea that allowing it would result in religious organizations being forced to perform such weddings or face fines and arrests, and when that didn’t happen, inventing the claim that it did.
Governor Butch Otter entered the non-fray when he said, “One of the key arguments against the Idaho Constitution’s defense of traditional marriage has been that redefining it to include same-sex couples would not harm anyone. But the Hitching Post example shows the fallacy of that position”
He is either being woefully uninformed, or purposely misleading.
Meanwhile, city spokesman Keith Erickson has stated that the fuss is over nothing, but rather, “It’s been on overload – and I think it’s the misinformation that we’re threatening to throw the Knapps in jail”.
“Misinformation” is a euphemism for “lie”.
Apparently, in order to defend religion, the defenders resort to lying, which seems a little odd as lying is included in “Shall Nots” of the Ten Commandments and would be something such people would avoid.