Here comes "Christmas Resolution II" ... or, why the House has no time for impeachment

[warren pease]

There's a revival going on in Ms. Nancy's house, and it aims to send the US slouching further toward the dark ages, when uppity women were burned as witches and fire and brimstone awaited the religiously ambivalent. Coming soon to an imbecilic GOP congressperson near you, it's H Res 888, a resolution to establish the first week in May as "American Religious History Week." Hayzoos effing Christos, indeed.

While the recent House of Representatives "Christmas resolution" was being covered and discussed ad nauseum on countless websites, blogs, and elsewhere, another far more heinous resolution was introduced, one which, unbelievably, does not appear to have been noticed by anyone.

On December 18, 2007, Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) introduced H. Res. 888, a resolution "Affirming the rich spiritual and religious history of our Nation's founding and subsequent history and expressing support for designation of the first week in May as 'American Religious History Week' for the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith."

This resolution, which purports to promote "education on America's history of religious faith," is packed with the same American history lies found on the Christian nationalist websites, and in the books of pseudo-historians like David Barton. It lists a total of seventy-five "Whereas's," leading up to four resolves, the third of which is particularly disturbing -- that the U.S. House of Representatives "rejects, in the strongest possible terms, any effort to remove, obscure, or purposely omit such history from our Nation's public buildings and educational resources," a travesty of the highest magnitude, considering that most of the "history" this resolve aims to promote in our public buildings and schools IS NOT REAL!

Here's the http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.RES.888:">bill and here's the article by Chris Rodda quoted from above.

Assuming you're not as utterly sick of calling your congresshumans and bitching at their staffers as I am, a call on this one wouldn't be a bad idea.


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[bullimiami]

1. apparently there is time to investigate steroids in baseball too.

nancy has to go.