“So help me…Bob?”

Conservative news site CNSnews.com is reporting that a federal judge dismissed the complaint of 4 “non-theists”, in which they demanded that “so help me God” be removed from the inaugural oath, claiming that is violates the separation of church and state.

2 very quick things:

First of all, if the language of the first amendment is thus: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”.  “Establishment”, in this context is either a noun or a verb.  Either the amendment implies that congress shall make now law interfering with religions, or it implies that congress shall make no law that establishes (creates) a religion.  Note that the amendment does not attempt to restrict the activities of religious groups.

So it’s not really “separation of church and state” as many people love to quote.  It’s complete one-way.  The amendment language says that the congress may not fiddle around with religions.

Second of all, the president of the united states has the right to swear an oath to whatever he or she deems appropriate.  If we ever elect a Muslim president, he (note the conspicuous lack of “or she” — gotta love Islam!) has every right to say “so help me Allah”.  In my view, the president has the right to just simply swear the oath, without the God part at all.  Here’s the thing, folks.  It is a man, swearing by his own beliefs and conscience, to do something.  Barack Obama is NOT the state (at least not yet — see my articles on socialism…).  So who are these “non-theists” to say that Barack Obama does not have the right to swear to his God that he will do his job?

The vast majority of people in this country believe in a higher power.  These whiners need to quit their snivelling and move on.

^Z