Fairness - The Commentary

The religious right-wing will continue to seek government enforcement of their religious views as long as they can. Church/State separation means little or nothing to them because they’re convinced that the U.S. was always meant to be a "Christian" (by their definition) nation. Historical argument doesn’t get through to them. They have their own pseudo historians to do just plain bad history in their favor and sectarian publishers to publish that pseudo history. They ignore fact-based historians. When we respond that such attempts are unconstitutional, we fail to recognize that they’ve intentionally packed the Supreme Court and lower courts with those who agree with them, and that it’s these very human justices that define what’s constitutional, not some nice ideal we have in our heads. Only if a majority of voters stand up, take responsibility, and vote, will this trend change since there’s big money behind right-wing sectarianism. But it will also require p...