Aye, yi-yi, yi-yi . . .
Former George W. Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino reminds The Gadfly of what exactly the qualifications were that landed her the gig of chief spokesliar for Bush and Cheney to begin with -- namely a very attractive woman with about as much cognitive thinking capacity between her ears as a 10 lb. sack of russet potatoes:
Fox News host Dana Perino this week suggested that atheists should leave the country instead of trying to maintain the separation of church and state.
In a case before the Massachusetts Supreme Court, atheist lawyer David Niose argued that the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance violates the Equal Rights Amendment of the state's constitution.
"I'm tired of them," Perino complained on Wedneday. "I remember working at the Justice Department years ago when I first started right after 9/11 and a lawsuit like this came through, and before the day had finished, the United States Senate and the House of Representatives had both passed resolutions saying that they were for keeping 'under God' in the pledge."
"If these people really don't like it, they don't have to live here," she added.
"Yeah, that's a good point," co-host Bob Beckel agreed.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/fox-news-host-tired-atheists-wanting-secular#disqus_thread
First off -- is it any wonder Perino was so effective at her job of paid bullshitter on behalf of Team Cheney/Bush? She's not at all unpleasant to the eyes and that is just enough of a distraction to have kept the Washington DC press corp from following up on the blizzard of lies and disinformation she was peddling while covering the asses of her corrupt bosses back in the day.
That aside though, what in the fuck is this ignorant woman talking about? Does she not have the slightest clue as to how this country's government was founded and the religious proclivities of the nation's founders in turn?
Most of the principle founding fathers of this country were adherents of Deism - which is "the belief that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of God, accompanied with the rejection of revelation and authority as a source of religious knowledge." In short, they believed in nature and nature's God, which fully explains why there are no references to Christianity, Jesus Christ or the Christian Bible in any of the founding documents.
Quite simply put, the founders of this country were light years wiser than Dana Perino and the hyenas at Fox "News" could ever prayerfully hope to be -- for they had seen the insidious and ultimately destructive mischief that occurs when church and the affairs of the state are wedded in unholy matrimony. They knew very well the corrosive and corrupting effect of state sponsored religion and it is the guiding principle behind why they made it clear in the founding documents that there should be an unambiguous separation between church affairs and government (state) affairs.
Perino is simply blowing smoke out of her peroxide blonde ass insinuating that non-religious Americans should just shut up and dutifully allow church and state to mingle their business interests. In essence - what she is saying is that she is all for America rejecting it's present form of government, representative democracy, in favor of a theocracy - where all Americans are forced to express fealty toward one chosen religion and, by proxy, one chosen invisible deity, or one religious leader, or group of leaders. Which begs the obvious question -- how then would that distinguish the United States from the Islamic theocratic states like Iran, or Saudi Arabia, or Yemen? Just because Christianity is our chosen divine monarchy? The mind boggles at the stupendous imbecility of Perino's statement.
Lastly -- a big fuck you to Dana Perino. The Gadfly would suggest that if Dana Perino does not like American democracy, it should be her divinely inspired ass that should hop the first flight to Tehran and leave the business of safeguarding America's currently unenslaved peoples to those who actually understand the underlying formula for and reasoning behind the concept of church/state separation. The rest of us will be just fine by fighting to keep religion in the churches and synagogues and mosques where it belongs instead of practicing it's voodoo-cult monkeyshines in the halls of government power.
----TFG
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