A Stitch in Haste

Yesterday I noted some theocrat malcontents whining about how the IRS, in attempting to enforce minimal restrictions on their political activities as a reasonable condition of enjoying tax-exempt status, actually have the gall to hypocritically cry "First Amendment" and "separation of church and state."

These are, of course, the same theocrats who lie about the United States being a "Christian nation" and who have apoplectic fits at suggestions that maybe, just maybe, the Ten Commandments does not belong in a secular courthouse or classroom or that maybe, just maybe, legislative sessions should not be opened with prayers, especially sectarian prayers.

In circumstances like this, perhaps it would help to recall just how far we have indeed come and to recall exactly what kind of church-and-state relations some theocrats would unhesitatingly return to if they could:


I can just imagine the conversations taking place in Catholic and other theocrat offices at the moment: "If Massachusetts and California start spreading their filth in America, then we are in for trouble — all of us!"

They are already in trouble.