Religious Discrimination alive and well in America

Back on April 15 I mentioned a story about a Wiccan priestess who wanted to do the invocation at a municipal meeting and was denied. A blatant act of religious discrimination imo.

The final verdict of the appeals court is in and she has lost her case. It's a sad day for religious freedom in America. Apparently according to the ruling only Judeo Christian faiths apply. Who knew?

The 4th Circuit ruled Chesterfield County's Board of Supervisors did not show impermissible motive in refusing to permit a pantheistic invocation by a Wiccan because its list of clergy who registered to conduct invocations covers a wide spectrum of Judeo-Christian denominations. Simpson v. Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, No. 04-1045 (April 14). Chesterfield County is in the Richmond suburbs.

"The Judeo-Christian tradition is, after all, not a single faith but an umbrella covering many faiths," Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote in the opinion.

So there you have it. The only faiths that qualify to be protected under the constitution of the US apparently MUST be of the judeo christian variety. Activist Judges? What activist judges? Oh THOSE activist judges. We need MORE of THOSE activist judges and less of THOSE activist judges, you know the one who actually interpret the law without regard to ideology ....what's up with THAT. {/end sarcasm}

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