Representative Monique M. Davis Spews Torrent of Hatred at Atheists
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
I covered America’s sanctioned prejudice against non-believers awhile back, but noted that there were some notable improvements in tolerance toward people of no faith in more recent years.
Then Representative Monique M. Davis (D-Ill.) let loose a horrible attack on Rob Sherman, an atheist testifying against the state government’s plan to give $1 million to rebuild a Baptist church. Sherman was not allowed to respond to Davis’ deplorable, intolerance, where she raged he “had no right to be here” and that “It’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists.”
Listen as she flies completely off the handle at him:
She says she’s “trying to understand the philosophy.” What philosophy would that be? The philosophy of religious tolerance, even of non-religion? The separation of church and state, which allows people to live without religious tyranny, like being shouted down and forbidden from speaking in a public forum by a sick sick woman abusing her power?
This woman has turned her back on Thomas Paine, father of the American Revolution. John Locke, who inspired so many of the Founding Fathers. She is completely ignorant of the philosophies of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington. She is even ignorant of her own government:
no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
U.S Constitution (Article 6, Section 3)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”
Article 11 of the U.S. Treaty of Tripoli
When Monique M. Davis fears the philosophy of atheism, she oppresses tolerance, free-thinking, inquiry, rationality, and egalitarianism. Monique M. Davis is incapable of upholding American principles and must resign.
I covered America’s sanctioned prejudice against non-believers awhile back, but noted that there were some notable improvements in tolerance toward people of no faith in more recent years.
Then Representative Monique M. Davis (D-Ill.) let loose a horrible attack on Rob Sherman, an atheist testifying against the state government’s plan to give $1 million to rebuild a Baptist church. Sherman was not allowed to respond to Davis’ deplorable, intolerance, where she raged he “had no right to be here” and that “It’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists.”
Listen as she flies completely off the handle at him:
She says she’s “trying to understand the philosophy.” What philosophy would that be? The philosophy of religious tolerance, even of non-religion? The separation of church and state, which allows people to live without religious tyranny, like being shouted down and forbidden from speaking in a public forum by a sick sick woman abusing her power?
This woman has turned her back on Thomas Paine, father of the American Revolution. John Locke, who inspired so many of the Founding Fathers. She is completely ignorant of the philosophies of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington. She is even ignorant of her own government:
no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
U.S Constitution (Article 6, Section 3)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”
Article 11 of the U.S. Treaty of Tripoli
When Monique M. Davis fears the philosophy of atheism, she oppresses tolerance, free-thinking, inquiry, rationality, and egalitarianism. Monique M. Davis is incapable of upholding American principles and must resign.
