I couldn't resist you, I'm not deaf dumb and blind

[wombat_socho]

Do people like this student even realize how bigoted they sound? Makes me wonder how long we'll have to wait for a new Test Act that also bars evangelicals -or people who look and sound like evangelicals- from office. Judging from the confirmation hearings for Justice Alito last year, some people evidently think there's one in effect already.

Tonight I'll probably be working on my apazine for this weekend's StippleAPA, which as usual I've done absolutely nothing with in the last six weeks since Arcana. I did a little background work for Blood Red Skies today which should make writing the battle scenes in the middle chapters a lot easier, but I'm dubious about whether I'll actually get any actual writing done.

As for the weekend, aside from the Stipple collation, a stop by the library to pick up the new David Drake novel Some Golden Harbor (one of the Lieutenant Leary series, featuring the most lethal librarian in the universe) and a programming meeting with thaadd sometime Sunday, I don't have any plans, because those usually require money, and that's going to be scarce for a while.

Comments

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

I guess that depends on what you mean "privileged". Keep in mind that some states had established churches until the 1970s, and if some state government wanted to get really hardcore, they could make a case for doing it again. (Though given what's happened in Europe where this is actually done, they'd be fools to, but that's another debate.)

The real influence of the Christian churches, and to a lesser extent the Jewish congregations, is that they set moral guidelines for their people which are ultimately reflected in the laws passed by legislatures. For example, many Southern and prairie states have large populations of Southern Baptists and other evangelicals who don't hold with liquor. Not coincidentally, booze tends to be restricted in a lot of those places, and in some counties you can't buy so much as a can of 3.2 horse piss. More commonly, most Christian religions are against prostitution, and so in most states it's against the law to trade sex for money. Insofar as any religion is privileged in the US, that's how it works - it's privilege in the sense that the diversity wonks use the word, not privilege in the sense that bishops, rabbis and ministers are entitled to seats in various State Senates on account of being considered our Lords Spiritual.