This may shock you. But I agree with you. This is all a waste of tax payer dollars. Congress needs to get those spending bills passed.

Still, I have a lot more of a problem with those 9 Dems above than with Castle. And I am not exactly a big Castle fan.

I don’t think Congress needs to be in the business of passing this type of bullshit resolution.

What next? “Puppies are Cute. All in favor say Eye…”

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll928.xml

The Bill said, “Recognizing the commencement of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting and spiritual renewal, and commending Muslims in the United States and throughout the world for their faith.”

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.res.00635:

I have no problem with any of this as long as Congress is not showing favoratism. And I don’t think they are.

But I do think that the following Dems who voted for Islam, but against Christianity are showing favortism.

Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.)
Diana DeGette (D-Co.
Alcee Hastings (D-Fl.)
Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)
Bobby Scott (D-Va.)
Fortney Stark (D-Calif.)
Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.)

Please play fair and not call attention to double standards and hypocrisy.

Throw that kind of stuff down a convenient memory hole.

I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, as someone who is the flipside of your religious stance (i.e. raised Catholic and sent to Catholic school for 12 years only to end up currently teetering between agnostic and atheist).

Look, I have no problem with Christmas, nor do I have a problem with any other religious holiday. But I think a resolution like this declaring the specific importance of any of said holidays is a stupid waste of time.

If you need the government’s seal of approval to confirm the importance of your religion and its holidays, then you should probably be questioning how valid or important they really are in the first place.

But I am also an American citizen living in a constitutional republic, one of whose premises is not to have the government privilege ANY religion over another or even over non-belief.

This resolution is not just stupid, it’s downright chilling. Did you actually read it? I quote some specific parts:

“Whereas there are approximately 225,000,000 Christians in the United States, making Christianity the religion of over three-fourths of the American population…” So what? Does this include Mormons? The current leader in the Republican race in Iowa doesn’t seem to think so.

All it seems to prove is the famous 19th Century concept of “Tyranny of the Majority.”

“Whereas Christians identify themselves as those who believe in the salvation from sin offered to them through the sacrifice of their savior, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and who, out of gratitude for the gift of salvation, commit themselves to living their lives in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Bible,,,,”

Congress has absolutely NO business having a religious opinion.

“Whereas the United States, being founded as a constitutional republic in the traditions of western civilization, finds much in its history that points observers back to its roots in Christianity….”

Now Congress is writing history? I would be willing to bet you that not more than three people who voted for this resolution even have the slightest idea of the distinction between Salvation through Grace and Salvation through Works, or how either relates to American political history and thought.

[Aside: how can you tell a politician--any politician--is mangling history to serve his/her own present agenda? Check to see if the lips are moving.]

“Whereas for Christians, Christmas is celebrated as a recognition of God’s redemption, mercy, and Grace…”

Once again–with profanity for sake of clarity: Congress has NO DAMN BUSINESS making this comment.

To reiterate: I am a Christian. I am an American citizen. It makes me no happier to have my government spend my tax dollars in an act of pandering political masturbation than it does to have those idiots gift their constituents with earmarks, declaim piously about the Armenian genocide, or bail out people who knowingly assumed loans they didn’t have the resources to repay (and before anybody jumps my shit here, I have also castigate the government and the banks; read my blog).