Rep. Steve King [R-IA] is proposing H. Res. 847: Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith. I will spare you the whereases. Here is the crux:
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) recognizes the Christian faith as one of the great religions of the world;
(2) expresses continued support for Christians in the United States and worldwide;
(3) acknowledges the international religious and historical importance of Christmas and the Christian faith;
(4) acknowledges and supports the role played by Christians and Christianity in the founding of the United States and in the formation of the western civilization;
(5) rejects bigotry and persecution directed against Christians, both in the United States and worldwide; and
(6) expresses its deepest respect to American Christians and Christians throughout the world.
Don't these asshats have any governing to do?
I just wish they'd all STFU about religion and get to work. We have an economy in serious trouble and a falling dollar, a crisis in healthcare, looming environmental disaster, an illegal and unfruitful war that needs to end, a fractious world to deal with, sundry forms of genocide going on, and rampant lawlessness in the highest echelons of government. And he's playing the implied Christian martyr card? Damn all such silly nonsense to everlasting flames!
Now, get back to work you self-righteous twit!
h/t to BlondeSense Liz
UPDATE (12/13/07): It passed. Here are some pointed comments from the Rude Pundit. He is a total blasphemous pottymouth (which is why I like him) so don't read this if you can't take strong language:
The House of Representatives actually passed, massively, a resolution declaring, in essence, that Christianity is just awesome and keen and mighty cool and all the kids should do it. Oh, and Christmas is, oh, Jesus Christ on a cracker, fuckin' orgasmically sensational.
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Are Christians in America so desperate for attention that they needed cornfucker Steve King to stand up for them and for the House to resolve that it "recognizes the Christian faith as one of the great religions of the world" and "acknowledges and supports the role played by Christians and Christianity in the founding of the United States and in the formation of the western civilization" and giving mad props to Christmas?
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Is this what Christianity has come to? A bunch of whiny bitches in heat making the other dogs in the neighborhood howl and bark? Where, when Bill O'Reilly or William Donohue or Tony Perkins or whatever demagogic barrel of fuck you wanna name gets sand in his or her ass crack over Christmas or gay marriage or some issue or other that makes fundamentalists think America is all about them, you gotta go all paranoiac? Is your Jesus that small?
Indeed. Is your Jesus that small? If he is, I suggest you meet the Jesus of the Gospels. He wasn't, and isn't, insecure. If you believe, in any sense, that Jesus is Lord, then you don't need such lame-ass, whiny resolutions before the Congress of the United States.
Jesus wept.
--the BB
