Dear Representative Lynn Woolsey;
[Open Letter]
I am appalled that our Congress would consider a bill such as HR 153.
Inasmuch as Donald Rumsfeld has guaranteed the people of Iraq that they will not have to be burdened with a theocracy I think it is concomitant upon the Representatives of the People of this country to confine their theocratic leanings to their own private lives and allow all other Americans to do the same.
Please vote against HR 153 and all others like it.
Sincerely,
Claire Barry
Go here and look for HR 153. In the bill are included various historical references to other times when Congress committed a similar offence (the last in 1865…), and this phrase:
Whereas, through prayer, fasting, and self-reflection, we may better recognize our own faults and shortcomings and submit to the wisdom and love of God in order that we may have guidance and strength in those daily actions and decisions we must take; and
That’s all very well and good, but it does not describe my ‘God.’
and, the summation:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should issue a proclamation--
(1) designating a day for humility, prayer, and fasting for all people of the United States; and
(2) calling on all people of the United States--
(A) to observe the day as a time of prayer and fasting;
(B) to seek guidance from God to achieve a greater understanding of our own failings and to learn how we can do better in our everyday activities; and
(C) to gain resolve in meeting the challenges that confront our Nation.
It is my sense that the House of Representatives should use whatever means they deign appropriate to gain humility before all people of the United States and achieve a greater understanding of their own failings, resolve to do better and butt the Hell out of telling people how to relate to God. That is not an appropriate governmental area. It may be a cultural area. A familial area. Or any other kind of group you want to name.
It is not what the government of the United States of America ought to be telling its citizens to do.
Government + God = Theocracy.
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