Distressing info...

According to Fox News, the Supreme Court has refused to hear the Massachussetts gay marriage issue.

This is depressing. Although I haven't looked into this yet except for the Fox story, I'm already blaming David Souter and Sandra Day O'Connor. They let me down.

You know, before Prohibition, when there were dry states, they couldn't impose that on the "wet" states, and vice versa. Where is the reciprocity now? Despite about 15 states passing state amendments banning gay marriage and NOT A SINGLE STATE APPROVING IT, four judges in Mass. and a handful of mayor swho can kiss of reelection are more than happy imposing their morality on me.

I'm single, but, what, because I'm straight I don't get any kind of consideration? So I'm too God dang lazy to make out a will. Is that any reason why the state can't read my mind and let a judge decide who has the rights to my money and major organs? Let the communal lovin' begin! Only, I'm straight, so I am cut off from the psychic beneficence of the state judiciary.

Marriage has an intrinisic meaning, even to people who don't marry. If it didn't have so much meaning, the activist gays, like the ones in the "open marriages" of Mass.'s first couples, wouldn't be trying to ruin it for the rest of us.

Stupid Maryland schools take the religion out of religious people

According to Fox News Online, Maryland school systems are not teaching that the Pilgrims thanks ed God during their first Thanksgiving. Or, for that matter, how ,why or if, exactly, they believed in God. They came over here for reasons, I guess, and then had to thank Indians for helping them as they tried to find themselves.

Of course, this is because mentioning God in anyway (even in teaching something that actually happened) is bad. And besides, all religions are the same because only stupid, uneducated people believe any of them. So no religion is a) different from anotehr or b) relevant to any discussion.

Perhaps their ignorance of religion has led to an ignorance of history that they are just fostering with their students. This has also led to the purging of even writings by atheists (ahem, "deists") that mentioned God in the cosmic sense, before we knew about Gaia. (Hat tip, Drudge and PoliPundit.)

Just to clarify, the Pilgrims weren't "Puritan." The Puritans, who arrived 20 years later, were Puritan--they wanted to reform the Church of England, or "purify" it. The Pilgrims had abandoned the Church of England as hopelessly corrupt, had been driven from England almost 15 years before, and had lived in tolerant (but secular) Holland before heading out for the New World. Because of their more extreme religious views, even the Puritans disdained them.

It's not sloppy religion that causes that kind of mix up; it's sloppy history. They're not reporting or informing. They're not even educated enough themselves to know that they don't know about what they're talking. It doesn't matter whether religion has a place in THEIR lives; what matters is that it had a place in the lives of the people who made that history, just as a religious Islamic fervor caused 9/11 or the split between India and Pakistan. It is part and parcel with reality and has nothing more to do with religion itself, except as far as a pharisaic zeal to prevent any mention of God has to do with the doctrine of fundamentalist atheism.