The elimination of attorneys' fees would also deter attorneys from taking cases in which the government has acted unconstitutionally. In many cases, religious minorities would be unable to obtain legal representation to defend them in instances when their religious freedom has been violated by the government. The bill would apply even to cases involving illegal religious coercion of public school children or blatant discrimination against particular religions.

The government(s) never violate your civil and constitutional rights? Ho, ho, ho. Ever been to a high school football game in Texas on Friday night? You’d likely hear a Baptist, Pentecostal or Evangelical minister invoke the “Holy Name of Jesus Christ” or somesuch formula while blessing the game and players. Or attend a public school somewhere else deep in Redland and listen to teachers castigate Muslims, Jews and Catholics, while sneaking biblical tracts into class as “historical reading.” And if you really think the Federal Government won’t violate your constitutional rights you’ve obviously been asleep the last week while Congress tossed the Constitution in the trash can in their desperate desire to grovel to a little man with an oversized ego.

Here’s another beauty:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 — Congress removed a controversial provision in a military bill on Friday that would have permitted chaplains to offer sectarian prayer at mandatory nondenominational events. At the same time, lawmakers moved to rescind guidelines issued last year by the Air Force and Navy meant to curtail the risk of religious coercion and proselytizing within the ranks.

“The provisions in today’s bill represent a full step forward and a half step back,” said Representative Steve Israel, Democrat of New York and a member of the House Armed Services Committee. “We removed dangerous language undermining religious freedom and military effectiveness, but I am distressed that instead of moving forward with unequivocal religious tolerance in the military, we are reopening old loopholes that permitted some acts of coercion and proselytizing.”

Over the last four or five years the Air Force has gotten a lot of bad publicity over its absorption into the fundamentalist Evangelic Church, but that doesn’t matter because it’s all good
Since it gives Jesus direct control over the hydrogen bomb.

The [prayer] provision was championed by some evangelical chaplains and Christian groups, like Focus on the Family.

But it was opposed by the Pentagon, the National Association of Evangelicals and a dozen or so ecumenical groups, which maintained that offering sectarian prayer would create division within the military.

Congress did hand some evangelicals a victory by abrogating the Air Force and Navy guidelines on religious expression first issued in the wake of a 2004 scandal in the Air Force Academy, when some staff members, alumni and cadets accused evangelical Christians in leadership posts of aggressive proselytizing and discrimination.

James Dobson is gonna roast all you latte-drinking, Volvo-driving liberal coastal elite sinners in the holy fire of Redemption.

Bring on the Rapture!