Well, here is another GOP shot at dooming America to repeat some really awful history - the Blunt Bill.
Its a two-fer. First, it reinstates - the rule that ended the no-quarter-given warfare and barbarism of the 30 years war by declaring monarchical determination of matters of individual conscience.
Cuius regio, eius religio is a phrase in Latin translated as "Whose realm, his religion"...
The principle provided for internal religious unity within a state: The religion of the prince became the religion of the state and all its inhabitants. Those inhabitants who could not conform to the prince's religion were allowed to leave, an innovative idea in the 16th century;
- Wikipedia Cuius regio, eius religio
Second, it declares that corporations are kings, that can do as they please on a mere whim. If you have read
The Divine Right of Capital, this kind of thinking is appalling but not surprising.
People with the slightest understanding of our Constitution and of the major currents of Western history are beyond disgusted that a major political party is literally trying to write the monarchy-entrenching solution of the Religious Wars of the 16th century into law.
It is pre-American, it is un-American, it is beyond ignorant. Given the predictable consequences of this invitation to discrimination, this is sedition. But, its never sedition if you're the GOP. Bill of Rights, we don't need no steenkin bill of rights. We are corporations, we are religions, we are god on earth. We are your masters. Bow down and obey us.
If people do not run the authors and supporters of this treasonous idea out of Congress on a rail, democracy is only for corporations in America. Where is the media outrage? Oh, the poor, poor Catholic Church. The elites and media of this country are on another planet.
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I haven't got time to write any more. So, its hardly a diary. But, I did want to get the meme into play.