A Stitch in Haste

If religious bigots really want to invoke libertarian arguments to legitimize their bigotry, then they better be prepared to be judged by real libertarians about the entire spectrum of libertarian issues.

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"Whereas" a theocrat in Congress has introduced some outrageous "Whereas" clauses…

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David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch seem to think so.

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Most of the Framers were Deists, not "Christians" in the modern sense.

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What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
–Ecclesiastes 1:9
Before there was bigotry, there was — bigotry.
And before there was blogging, there was — blogging:

We shall have to wait and see to what extent Rick Warren proves to be "nothing new under the sun."
In the [...]

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–Which local theocracy tried to ban fortune tellers and soothsayers, until a federal judge declared the ban unconstitutional on free speech and vagueness grounds?
–Which other local theocracy, meanwhile, is being sued for unconstitutionally pressuring a billboard company to remove an advertisement by an atheist group?
–Moving on to statewide theocracies: Which U.S. state quietly inserted [...]

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From "God's Love, We Deliver" to "God's House, Buzz Off" —
When Gary Khera, went with his wife to the Union Mission on Roanoke Avenue to make a donation, a staffer asked him to remove his turban.
"She said, 'Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States,'" Khera recounted. "That made [...]

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Attributed to Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments for Pleasant Grove City v. Summum:
"You can't run a museum if you have to accept everything, right?"
Right — Which is exactly why the government should not be running museums in the first place.
As for the outcome of this bizarre case, I think Chief Corky Roberts summed it [...]

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Consider the following correction in Sunday's Washington Post:
Because of an editing error, the Nov. 7 op-ed column "Vows That Can't Be Voted Down" incorrectly suggested that the Mormon Church had contributed funds to efforts to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. The op-ed should have said "members of the [...]

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Dear Shaman Clayton,
If someone were to walk up to me, hit me in the face for no legitimate reason and walk away, then I would probably not chase him down just to hit him back.
But when someone walks up to me, hits me in the face for no legitimate reason and then tells me it's [...]

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