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A quick post here to refer those interested to an outstanding rant over at Scienceblogs by Kevin Beck on the blog Dr. Joan Bushwell's Cimpanzee Refuge.

I have an original post in the works for today, but in the meantime enjoy these tidbits.  They are included in a post titled  "Bumpkins of faith: We alone deserve special protection."  It is basically a rant about the claims of a "war on christmas" that are already beginning to fly.  Don't call yourself patriotic if you don't truly understand religious liberty.  You can find the entire post here.  I recommend it. 

Go ahead and throw up your nativity scenes and menorahs and crosses and lawn jockeys and animated statues of Stewie from The Family Guy if it floats your boat. But the legal precedent for not giving dominion to any one sect in taxpayer-supported places like city parks, government offices and schools is well-established and its pragmatism crystal-clear to the myelinated of neuron. Besides, churches have endless expanses of tax-free territory to decorate with ersatz virgins and magic talking asses trucked in from all four corners of the planet.

And a brilliant conclusion is always a plus.

The lesson here (other than the basic prohibition on thinking, period) is that it's wrong to stand up for your rights unless you're white, Christian, male, and straight (or in Kerwin Brown's case, cowering in a closet). Then it's incumbent upon you not only to demand unique rights, but trample or malign the basic ones of others. Clueless hillbillies like Jay -- who don't even know they're part of a majority, much less appreciate the fact that this is the only sound explanation for why they've even been allowed to advance to whatever irrelevant stations in society they occupy -- are sublime examples of why it's frivolous to pretend that legal protections and certain forms of recognition given to minority groups are categorically without merit. When Christopathic conservatives bemoan others' supposed hunger to destroy religion, they're only projecting their obvious desire for global supremacy on the rest of us.

Look for more soon...

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