Celebrating tyranny.

In response to http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=637&letter_id=1411869811

What is this fucking nonsense? Un-American, unpatriotic, undemocratic, selectively quoted (academic dishonesty -- instant F) and illiterate. That's what.

A properly sourced report on the issue is at http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/australia.asp .

As a militant atheist, I'm the last to sympathize with theocracy. But to dispute someone's right to peacefully advocate, in a free society governed by the rule of law, theocracy -- or any other political notion or form of government -- is unconstitutional, un-American and ignorant of the values that our nation is founded on. It's to reject the values that distinguish our society from theocracies in the first place -- values that we say our soldiers fight for when they go to war.

History lesson. By 380 AD, the politically contentious and religiously tolerant Roman Republic/Empire (after which our Founding Fathers modeled American government) had prospered for about 800 years. In 380, to unify the empire, Christianity was made the official state religion. Within a century Rome was dead.