Personal Finance Topics / Macroeconomic Trends and Risks
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Attorney General Pam Bondi had Jesus Christ arrested at a religious house of worship for creating a whip of cords, overturning tables, pouring out coins, and driving small businessmen off the property.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Christ was arrested “in connection with the coordinated attack on” the house of worship.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi had Jesus Christ arrested at a religious house of worship for creating a whip of cords, overturning tables, pouring out coins, and driving small businessmen off the property.
Though the image is a compelling one, it’s basically flawed.
Bondi arrested Jesus OUTSIDE of the worship space, just as ICE arrested worshippers as they were leaving, OUTSIDE of worship spaces.
Don Lemon, on the other hand, helped plan and then filmed a disruption WITHIN a worship space while worshippers were gathered for worship.
Now- you or I may claim that so and so’s worship is illegitimate. I know for a fact that many claim that my particular worship style and content are illegitimate, but when we begin attempting to shut down the worship of others via disruption, that most certainly takes a bite out of the first amendment.
Ok, the Justice department is now on record defending the rights of one particular brand of religious worship expression. And they were right to do it.
Let’s see if they are consistent if and when a MAGA CROWD attempts to disrupt someone else’s religious worship.
A case can be made for asserting that they already have done that. Though ICE didn’t enter the worship space of the church they raided, they did use intimidating tactics in the church parking lot that may put a damper on worshippers’ feeling safe to attend worship in the future, especially given the threats of violence made by ICE agents in the parking lot.
If there’s a test case to be made, it’s in that case rather than in defending Don Lemon.
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Now- you or I may claim that so and so’s worship is illegitimate. I know for a fact that many claim that my particular worship style and content are illegitimate, but when we begin attempting to shut down the worship of others via disruption, that most certainly takes a bite out of the first amendment.
This has come up in a few threads now. I hate to be pedantic...well, okay, I'm a lawyer, so I don't hate to be pedantic. But at the risk of being pedantic, the First Amendment refers to your right to be protected from government infringement on speech.
I get it - worship, like speech, is one of the core activities that is covered by the First Amendment protections against infringement by government. And the FACE Act makes explicit reference to the protected class being those people who "exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of worship." But again, there's no constitutional protection against worship being infringed against by private parties - just the government. Which is why the FACE Act isn't merely duplicative of existing protections.
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This has come up in a few threads now. I hate to be pedantic...well, okay, I'm a lawyer, so I don't hate to be pedantic. But at the risk of being pedantic, the First Amendment refers to your right to be protected from government infringement on speech.
Yeah, that was in the back of my mind as I wrote it, but cannot a direct appeal to the protection of the First amendment can be made by the example I gave- not the Don Lemon example, but the example given by the ICE raid on a congregation and their intimidating tactics in the parking lot? Many of those folks, intimidated by ICE, will be thinking about their safety when they contemplate returning for worship. Could not a case be made for this being an example of the government favoring one religious expression over another?
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Could not a case be made for this being an example of the government favoring one religious expression over another?
I think you would more likely see that as a straight up Free Exercise claim. That government was interfering with people's ability to engage in worship, and thereby infringing on their right to the Free Exercise of religion. Allegations that government favors one religion over another are more often seen in Establishment Clause cases. A good lawyer might bring both, but I think the Free Exercise claim is a better fit.
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Actually the legend says the tax collectors had a beef with Jesus Christ back in the day.
Them Ethiopians, always causing trouble
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Them Ethiopians, always causing trouble
I forget if it was on the Beeb, or Amanpour, a couple days ago, a guest mentioned an Uber driver he was talking with the other day. The Uber driver is from Ethiopia. He said he was going back to Ethiopia, because it sux being a black, foreigner, in the US.
Now...did I post another "man says" bit because it's true, or just to irritate marco?
Steve
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The negus in Ethiopia caused tons of trouble but also kept the order at times.
Feel free to research it - -it's true.
