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| Mississippi State flag, adopted 1894, 29 years after the South lost the covil war. |
The extremist Christian campaign to subvert the US Constitution and impose a fundamentalist theocracy on the people, moved a small step towards its goal in Mississippi last Sunday.
The Mississippi legislature passed a bill to set up a commission to redesign the state flag to remove the racist Confederate Battle Flag and replace it with one which must incorporate the words "In God we trust". In other words, the Mississippi state government has at last accepted that the South lost the civil war and has jumped at the chance the "Black Lives Matter" campaign has created to establish Christianity, or at least theism into the state flag and to endorse a religion that 14% (and growing) of the population don't believe in.
They are doing this in the pretense that this is bringing the people of Mississippi together. A 'togetherness' that imposes a single view by coercion.
The first Amendment of the US Constitution states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Rosa's Law of Religious Elasticity.
First Law of Religious Elasticity.
All religions believe in freedom of conscience until they acquire the power to abolish it.
The first clause is known as the Establishment Clause and appears to forbid the actions of the Mississippi legislature. Note that no specific religion is mentioned, nor does it refer to 'a religion', merely 'religion', i.e. believing in or trusting any god or gods.First Law of Religious Elasticity.
All religions believe in freedom of conscience until they acquire the power to abolish it.
Just as with their campaign to be allowed to teach creationism in science classes in public schools, fundamentalist Christians are forever looking for ways to try to subvert this essential constitutional safeguard, protecting as it does, the right of every American to freedom of conscience and freedom from religion.
It's almost as though they feel insecure in their religious convictions and feel threatened by people not agreeing with them. Freedom of conscience is clearly anathema to fundamentalists who see it as preventing them exercising their assumed right to tell others what to believe and to impose their superstition on others by force of law.
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