Theocracy on the March

Looks like the gloves are off in the "Christian" right's war against everything not of the "Christian" right -- including the United States of America.

First up, the ever-reliable Family Research Council, with day something or other their prayer jihad against the Supreme Court. The give-away:

May [Justice Sotomayor] refrain now and for the rest of her tenure as a justice from supporting any law that forces people to do anything the Bible calls sin and that violates their religious conscience. . . . May God move Justice Sotomayor to vote for each state’s right to reflect the deeply held faith of a majority of its citizens, especially as expressed by their votes to uphold traditional marriage.

In other words, forget the Constitution and rule according to Tony Perkins' interpretation of Leviticus.

The military, with its history of "Onward, Christian Soliders," is a prime target:

[Mike]Huckabee told Iowa talk radio host Jan Mickelson that the Obama administration “orders its chaplains to put its Bibles away, not to pray in Jesus' name, not to counsel people on the issues of sexual morality.”

“When you have this attitude that is more about promoting gay marriage and gay rights in the military than it is about being able to protect religious liberty for those people of faith,” Huckabee said, “it’s going to be hard to find people that are truly devoted people of faith and Christian believers and Orthodox Jews and others.”

Interesting that only Orthodox Jews count as "people of faith." The rest of Huckabee's comment is pure bullshit.

Military chaplains are not there to proselytize. They are charged with counseling those of all faiths -- there's even a section in their manual on Wiccan practices, although there are apparently no Wiccan chaplains. (Here's a nice litle story about what happened to the first chaplain to try to change his affiliation to Wiccan.)

And of course, it's in the states that you're going to find the most rapid theocrats. Let's teach Christianity in the public schools!

"What you don’t know is that yesterday, the imam prayed. That one didn’t make the press. You see, when we’re not willing to defend our God in the public square, we shouldn’t be surprised when others try to replace Him. When we fail to teach it in the public school, the history of this nation, the God mentioned in our Declaration, the Supreme Being mentioned in the preamble of this constitution of the state. And we not only don’t teach it, but we suppress it and refuse to allow it to be taught.

We shouldn’t be surprised when others do differently and expect differently and think that religion is just about equality, because it’s not,. There’s only one true God. And the Bible’s quite clear about what happens when we refuse to tell the truth and we allow others to tell a wrong truth. That’s where we’re at. We’ve been neglectful, we’ve been very neglectful. So no one even spoke about the imam being there yesterday or the Muslims that were all around the center of the capitol, talking and evangelizing about their way of life.

Do they have that freedom? Absolutely. But the shame is that so little people know the truth about the heritage, the Christian heritage — I’m sorry, Mr. President, but we are, we were a Christian nation and we were founded on Christian values."

All straight out of the echo chamber in which she was raised. Do I really need to rebut this nonsense?

Fasten your seat belts -- it's going to be a bumpy ride.