Mark Levin: The Supreme Court and the Federal Government Are Imposing Secular Religious Sharia

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In one of the craziest moments from this weekend’s Values Voter Summit, talk radio screamer Mark Levin explains that the Supreme Court is imposing “secular sharia” on the United States.

No, I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about either.

The media and the “Sunday show dress-up hosts,” Levin stated, are too stupid to understand that the First Amendment was not intended to create a separation of church and state, but rather simply to prevent the establishment of a theocracy.

“The federal government is not supposed to establish a religion,” he said. “What we have now though is the federal government as a religion, secularism has become a religion. And just as in Muslim countries they have these sharia courts to enforce sharia law, well, we have a Supreme Court that exists to enforce apparently secularism.”

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Great White Snark  Sep 27, 2015 • 9:51:03pm

Pretzel logic is to be taken with a grain of salt. “Secular Sharia” uh huh. What gibberish.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 27, 2015 • 9:53:05pm

LOLWUT? Do these people even speak English?

secularism
[sek-yuh-luh-riz-uh m]

noun

1. secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.

2. the view that public education and other matters of civil policy should be conducted without the introduction of a religious element.

dictionary.reference.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 27, 2015 • 9:54:05pm

Secular Sharia, how the fuck does that even make sense?!

EDIT: I see I’m not the first to notice this.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 27, 2015 • 9:55:16pm

OK so the First Amendment is open to interpretation, but the Second Amendment is cast in stone.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 27, 2015 • 9:55:25pm

re: #1 Great White Snark

Pretzel logic is to be taken with a grain of salt. “Secular Sharia” uh huh. What gibberish.

They just want to remind people about the SCARY MUSLIMS!!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 27, 2015 • 9:55:39pm
The Supreme Court exists to enforce secularism.

Uhhh, yeah Mark, that’s kind of the fucking point of the whole thing, keeping Church and State separate and all.

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CriticalDragon1177  Sep 27, 2015 • 9:55:57pm

Charles Johnson,

Mark Levin is either incredibly uneducated or lying. The words “secular sharia” along with “secular theocracy” are oxymorons.

Secularism as pointed out by Merriam Websters is,

the belief that religion should not play a role in government, education, or other public parts of society

Sharia is,

the religious laws based on the Koran that Muslims follow

And a theocracy is,

a form of government in which a country is ruled by religious leaders

a country that is ruled by religious leaders

Or

government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

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Great White Snark  Sep 27, 2015 • 9:58:06pm

re: #5 CuriousLurker

They just want to remind people about the SCARY MUSLIMS!!

Sarah Palin does word salad this guy does word vomit. Sorry for the icky image but srsly this dude is not well.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 27, 2015 • 9:59:12pm

re: #8 Great White Snark

Waiting to see who completes the trilogy with word diarrhea.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 27, 2015 • 10:04:50pm

Let me sum up what’s happening here.

1) Levin is tying Sharia and Secularism together basically going with the myth that Muslims are given all manner of accommodation to practice their faith while Christians are mocked, persecuted and called bigots for practicing theirs.

2) The Bible says much about the worship false idols. At its root this ties into two of the 10 Commandments:

- You shall have no other Gods before me
- You shall not make idols

Many Christians use “idols” as a blanket statement referring to anything besides The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. Islam can be an idol, Judaism can be an idol, Buddhism can be an idol, Atheism can be an idol, money can be an idol, welfare can be an idol, section 8 housing can be an idol and so on and so forth.

3) It’s also playing into the RWNJ conspiracy theory that Muslims, Atheists, Jews, Buddhists, Humanists and so forth are ganging up against Christian Believers and waging a dedicated campaign to marginalize their beliefs, attack the believers and otherwise engaging in deliberate actions that expressly go against God and the Bible. And of course this whole operation is funded by Middle East Oil money, Jewish Financiers and Illuminati backed politicians throughout the world.

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CriticalDragon1177  Sep 27, 2015 • 10:07:25pm
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 27, 2015 • 10:11:28pm

re: #11 CriticalDragon1177

Texas women rock.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 27, 2015 • 10:12:02pm

re: #7 CriticalDragon1177

Charles Johnson,

Mark Levin is either incredibly uneducated or lying. The words “secular sharia” along with “secular theocracy” are oxymorons.

It appears he’s just blowing dog whistles:

Secular(ism) = godless atheism (most likely leftists, cultural Marxists, etc.)

Sharia = scary Muslim heathens (hordes of whom are invading the West intent on killing/converting all non-Muslims and establishing a Caliphate)

Small, but very loaded words. Oh, and never never mind that SCOTUS is composed of six (Roman Catholic) Christians and three Jews. It’s puzzling how “secular sharia” could possibly benefit them, but it doesn’t need to make sense—this sort of fundie crap is all about emotion, raise your hands up, cry, and and praise Jesus!!

Ugh. Trigger again.

Later…

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CriticalDragon1177  Sep 27, 2015 • 10:18:42pm

re: #5 CuriousLurker

They just want to remind people about the SCARY MUSLIMS!!

Which unlike the supporters of religious right are less than one percent of our population, and that’s even if you count every Muslim living in the country, in addition to the few genuine extremists. But of course we should be scared of them, and them turning the country theocracy instead of the religious right. People need to grow up.

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Jenner7  Sep 27, 2015 • 10:32:48pm
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Jenner7  Sep 27, 2015 • 10:55:36pm

Oooh, they played Jane’s Addiction in FTWD tonight.

Video

G’night…

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:02:18pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

It doesn’t need to hang together. What he’s doing is providing a framework in which his audience can simultaneously claim exclusive ownership of an American love of “freedom” but also implement a cultural and political structure in which it’s justifiable to quash people who don’t think like them.

At the bottom of this is a refusal to confront how their own agenda is un-American because they’re contemptuous of civil liberties and outright hostile to a plurality of viewpoints that are protected by freedom of religion/press/speech.

It’s what all of these wingnuts have in common, even if they’re not directly cooperating—Beck, Cruz, all the megachurch pastors and the radio personalities—the curation of reality such that they’re the heroes, and that anyone that disagrees is not merely wrong, but utterly depraved. That the world outside their comfort zones is not a mess of perspectives that move and change, but facets of a single malevolence that exists only to subvert them.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:07:41pm

re: #17 The Ghost of a Flea

It doesn’t need to hang together. What he’s doing is providing a framework in which his audience can simultaneously claim exclusive ownership of an American love of “freedom” but also implement a cultural and political structure in which it’s justifiable to quash people who don’t think like them.

At the bottom of this is a refusal to confront how their own agenda is un-American because they’re contemptuous of civil liberties and outright hostile to a plurality of viewpoints that are protected by freedom of religion/press/speech.

It’s what all of these wingnuts have in common, even if they’re not directly cooperating—Beck, Cruz, all the megachurch pastors and the radio personalities—the curation of reality such that they’re the heroes, and that anyone that disagrees is not merely wrong, but utterly depraved. That the world outside their comfort zones is not a mess of perspectives that move and change, but facets of a single malevolence that exists only to subvert them.

It’s the enemy at the gate mentality.

Or Satan, to some of them.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:13:16pm

Secular Sharia
Clean Coal
White Chocolate
Self-cleaning Oven
Compassionate Conservative
Soft Rock
Virgin Wool
Republican Thinktank
Permapress Shirt
Decaffeinated Coffee
Jumbo Shrimp
Nonfat Milk
Ouchless Bandaid
Liberal Press

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Varek Raith  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:17:51pm

Secular Religious Sharia

One of these words is not like the others.

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teleskiguy  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:18:21pm

re: #19 Decatur Deb

I shared on teh twitterz.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:19:52pm

re: #19 Decatur Deb

Secular Sharia
Clean Coal
White Chocolate
Self-cleaning Oven
Compassionate Conservative
Soft Rock
Virgin Wool
Republican Thinktank
Permapress Shirt
Decaffeinated Coffee
Jumbo Shrimp
Nonfat Milk
Ouchless Bandaid
Liberal Press

You forgot military intelligence.

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Varek Raith  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:21:34pm

re: #22 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You forgot military intelligence.

Airline food.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:23:13pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

I shared on teh twitterz.

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I’ve been published!!

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teleskiguy  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:40:12pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:40:56pm

re: #18 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Is it, though? To me it’s all shades of “You made me do that”—disproportionate offense justified as defense…a feint, a cover story.

I use the words “mountebank” and “counterfeit” a great deal when talking about this subject, because I can’t come up with a better framing concept. Built into all the demagoguery is a cynicism, a willingness to bend concepts and double-talk around principles that are supposed to be basic.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:44:57pm

Midnight in the garden of goo and weebles.

Babysitting—outta here.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 27, 2015 • 11:53:39pm

re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea

Is it, though? To me it’s all shades of “You made me do that”—disproportionate offense justified as defense…a feint, a cover story.

I use the words “mountebank” and “counterfeit” a great deal when talking about this subject, because I can’t come up with a better framing concept. Built into all the demagoguery is a cynicism, a willingness to bend concepts and double-talk around principles that are supposed to be basic.

Upding for “mountebank”. A word I don’t hear too often, but entirely appropriate when applied to the likes of Levin, Limbaugh, Cruz, Palin, etc.

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teleskiguy  Sep 28, 2015 • 12:03:59am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 28, 2015 • 12:11:19am

re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea

Is it, though? To me it’s all shades of “You made me do that”—disproportionate offense justified as defense…a feint, a cover story.

I use the words “mountebank” and “counterfeit” a great deal when talking about this subject, because I can’t come up with a better framing concept. Built into all the demagoguery is a cynicism, a willingness to bend concepts and double-talk around principles that are supposed to be basic.

Lying for Jesus.

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S'latch  Sep 28, 2015 • 12:42:01am

secular - adjective 1. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.

religious - adjective 1. relating to or believing in a religion.

secular religious - oxymoron 1. bullshit.

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Bird in the Paw  Sep 28, 2015 • 1:20:02am

re: #9 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Waiting to see who completes the trilogy with word diarrhea.

I’m not. It is becoming excruciating to listen to idiots with a platform and an agenda to lower our collective intelligence.

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teleskiguy  Sep 28, 2015 • 1:20:22am
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KerFuFFler  Sep 28, 2015 • 1:40:39am

This gif made my day! Who wouldn’t want to see an emu chick playing with a dog?

(I need to learn how to find the embed codes for gifs….)

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 28, 2015 • 1:55:35am

It seems the super blood moon didn’t trigger the apocalypse. I’m going back to bed.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 28, 2015 • 3:20:52am

Yeah!! Now Mitch is a “Leftist”

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2015 • 3:44:56am

So, today being a state holiday here, and with nothing else to do, I was poking around on the internet on the subject of psuedoscience, and behold! I came across this truly USDA Grade A prime cut choice of absolute batshit insanity:

The older Tempelhofgesellschaft (THG) was built in the 1980s by a few members of the nazi “Erbengemeinschaft der Tempelritter”. The leader of this group was the former police man Hans-Günter Fröhlich who resided in Germany/Homburg. The group had close links to the German-speaking far-right network. Its first publication was Einblick in die magische Weltsicht und die magischen Prozesse (1987).

The younger Tempelhofgesellschaft was founded in Vienna in the early 1990s by Norbert Jurgen-Ratthofer and Ralft Ettl to teach a dualist form of Christian religion called Marcionism. This one was a part of the main THG/Homburg. The group identifies an “evil creator of this world,” the Demiurge with Jehovah, the God of Judaism. Jesus Christ was an Aryan, not Jewish. They distribute pamphlets claiming that the Aryan race originally came to Atlantis from the star Aldebaran (this information is supposedly based on “ancient Sumerian manuscripts”). They maintain that the Aryans from Aldebaran derive their power from the vril energy of the Black Sun. They teach that since the Aryan race is of extraterrestrial origin it has a divine mission to dominate all the other races. It is believed by adherents of this religion that an enormous space fleet is on its way to Earth from Aldebaran which, when it arrives, will join forces with the Nazi Flying Saucers from Antarctica to establish the Western Imperium. Its major publication is called Das Vril-Projekt (1992).

After the THG had been dissolved, Ralf Ettl founded the Freundeskreis (circle of friends) Causa Nostra. It remains active and maintains relations to far-right publishers like the Swiss Unitall-Verlag.

O_O

Summon the meteors.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 28, 2015 • 3:47:34am

re: #36 Dave In Austin

“Mitch is a good and honorable guy, but the base is leaving our party,” Mr. Villere said in an interview with The Washington Times. “I’m out in the field all the time and we have all our elections this year for state offices, and it’s hurting us tremendously with our elections.”

That guy is so ignorant and full of shit. The base has nowhere to go but home, to abstain from voting, which isn’t much of an option at all. If the GOP keeps pandering to the overt racist wingnuts however the GOP will continue to see moderates, women and minorities in particular, defect to either the Democratic Party or become Democratic leaning Independents. He’s conflating his desire to correct losses suffered by establishment Republicans in primary races with a viable general election strategy. If he gets his way he won’t have a party worth belonging to.*

*I’d argue that the GOP hasn’t been a party worth belonging to for decades, but that’s neither here nor there.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 28, 2015 • 3:54:13am

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

Secular Sharia, how the fuck does that even make sense?!

EDIT: I see I’m not the first to notice this.

I think the reference is to requiring bakers to bake wedding cakes for gay couples if they bake them for straight couples, as well as ordering Kim Davis to do her job.

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palomino  Sep 28, 2015 • 3:59:20am

re: #39 Dark_Falcon

I think the reference is to requiring bakers to bake wedding cakes for gay couples if they bake them for straight couples, as well as ordering Kim Davis to do her job.

You’re exactly right. Levin’s reference is absurd.

BTW, isn’t he supposed to be one of the GOP’s intellectuals?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:05:05am

re: #37 Dr Lizardo

So, today being a state holiday here, and with nothing else to do, I was poking around on the internet on the subject of psuedoscience, and behold! I came across this truly USDA Grade A prime cut choice of absolute batshit insanity:

O_O

Summon the meteors.

I’ve come across the word “vril” before. Can’t remember where, though. [See below]

Given that Pioneer 10 will take 2 million years to reach Aldebaran’s neighborhood, I think we’re OK for a few more years. en.wikipedia.org No worries, man.

OK, so “vril” has entered into pseudo-science/New Age common use, it seems. en.wikipedia.org

There is a Vril Society, and other such nonsense, too.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:12:24am

re: #41 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve come across the word “vril” before. Can’t remember where, though.

Given that Pioneer 10 will take 2 million years to reach Aldebaran’s neighborhood, I think we’re OK for a few more years. en.wikipedia.org No worries, man.

“Vril” featured in a 19th Century novel called The Coming Race, and the idea filtered down into Theosophy and ultimately various esoteric movements. en.wikipedia.org

My mind still boggles that there’s people out there who really eat this stuff up. But then again, I first heard about “Nibiru” all the way back in the late 1990s from a friend (who shall remain nameless) who also told me that Nibiru would smack into the Earth on December 21st, 2012. She quite sincerely believed this. So these rather odd ideas have been floating around for about 20 years that I’ve been aware of, and probably a lot longer than that. Nowadays of course, the internet allows for the widespread dissemination of such ideas, whereas before, you’d have to go some esoteric bookstore and buy some book where you’d learn about it.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:26:50am

re: #40 palomino

You’re exactly right. Levin’s reference is absurd.

I was trying earlier to categorize Levin’s fallacy but it’s really an entire smorgasbord of bullshit. He’s begging the question because his assumption, that the 1st Amendment only prevents overt Theocracy, is also contained in his conclusion. There’s a fallacy of definition in his refusal to even say what secular means accept to imply that it is the opposite and therefore inexplicably also identical to religion. There is equivocation, theocracy is both a religiously based government and some ambiguous set of entirely religiously based legal restrictions that include the gay marriage ban that he asserts fall short of full blown theocracy. I’m sure I could go on.

Any government that strives towards a secular neutrality then, through the transitive property of pure distilled batshit and the magic of DARVO, becomes exact opposite of neutral and is somehow itself a type of religion.

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Stephen T.  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:29:35am

re: #4 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

OK so the First Amendment is open to interpretation, but the Second Amendment is cast in stone.

Well… part of the Second Amendment. They rarely seem to include the “well regulated” phrasing in most of their writings about it.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:32:55am

re: #36 Dave In Austin

Yeah!! Now Mitch is a “Leftist”

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To a certain species of Republican, the Grand Old Party’s leader in the Senate is always problematic because the requirement to get 60 votes to pass a bill on most issues means that said leader has to negotiate and compromise with the Democrats’ senate leadership. Making those compromises puts Mitch McConnell at odds with the “Purity Now!” crowd.

An additional factor for McConnell is that as the head of the Republican party in the Senate during the Obama administration he has been the person who decides who the GOP appointees to organizations such as the FCC, ICC, and other commissions that require both Republicans and Democrats. A person making appointments to the “alphabet soups” (as such commissions are sometimes derided as) cannot help but assume the dreaded title of “Washington Insider”, and again that grates on those who feel such commissions serve the interests of the government and not the public as well as those who just plain don’t like the federal government.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:34:27am

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

“Vril” featured in a 19th Century novel called The Coming Race, and the idea filtered down into Theosophy and ultimately various esoteric movements. en.wikipedia.org

My mind still boggles that there’s people out there who really eat this stuff up. But then again, I first heard about “Nibiru” all the way back in the late 1990s from a friend (who shall remain nameless) who also told me that Nibiru would smack into the Earth on December 21st, 2012. She quite sincerely believed this. So these rather odd ideas have been floating around for about 20 years that I’ve been aware of, and probably a lot longer than that. Nowadays of course, the internet allows for the widespread dissemination of such ideas, whereas before, you’d have to go some esoteric bookstore and buy some book where you’d learn about it.

A college classmate of mine (not a science major, thankfully) had worked for Velikovsky as a teenage assistant for some time. Though she was an extremely intelligent person, she believed every word of Velikovsky’s notion of planets careening through the solar system within human history. I read Velikovsky while in high school, and I knew it was complete bullshit. But then, I was an astronomy buff, and knew better than to accept his wacky ideas.

Humans are still entranced by the heavens, and still want to spin yarns about what we see in the sky. It must be some deep-seated instinct in our simian brains.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:41:08am

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

I was trying earlier to categorize Levin’s fallacy but it’s really an entire smorgasbord of bullshit. He’s begging the question because his assumption, that the 1st Amendment only prevents overt Theocracy, is also contained in his conclusion. There’s a fallacy of definition in his refusal to even say what secular means accept to imply that it is the opposite and therefore inexplicably also identical to religion. There is equivocation, theocracy is both a religiously based government and some ambiguous set of entirely religiously based legal restrictions that include the gay marriage ban that he asserts fall short of full blown theocracy. I’m sure I could go on.

Any government that strives towards a secular neutrality then, through the transitive property of pure distilled batshit and the magic of DARVO, becomes exact opposite of neutral and is somehow itself a type of religion.

They accuse evolution and atheism of being religions, too.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:42:03am

One thing that retards like Levin and Villere haven’t considered is that according to Kentucky State Law all vacancies to the US Senate are filled according to nomination by the Governor. In McConnell’s case that means his replacement would be named by Steve Beshear, a Democrat. There’s also no requirement in Kentucky for the replacement to be from the same party as the outgoing Senator. Finally, it’s not realistic at all to expect Mitch to resign and then suffer the humiliation of sticking around just to serve the same faction that organized his ouster.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:49:22am

re: #48 goddamnedfrank

One thing that retards like Levin and Villere haven’t considered is that according to Kentucky State Law all vacancies to the US Senate are filled according to nomination by the Governor. In McConnell’s case that means his replacement would be named by Steve Beshear, a Democrat. There’s also no requirement in Kentucky for the replacement to be from the same party as the outgoing Senator. Finally, it’s not realistic at all to expect Mitch to resign and then suffer the humiliation of sticking around just to serve the same faction that organized his ouster.

I think they imagine a ray of light will come from heaven, and from the dazzling glare, The Anointed One will emerge, ready to be the Tea Party replacement for McConnell.

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:53:07am

re: #18 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s the enemy at the gate mentality.

Or Satan, to some of them.

The Puritans have a lot to answer for.

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:54:35am

re: #25 teleskiguy

I don’t know what that is but it will be haunting my dreams.

And not in a good way.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:56:37am

re: #49 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I think they imagine a ray of light will come from heaven, and from the dazzling glare, The Anointed One will emerge, ready to be the Tea Party replacement for McConnell.

More likely they’re like spoiled children, throwing a tantrum because McConnell won’t indulge them with a government shutdown. And if McConnell were to be forced out, they imagine they can wave and stroke their guns in public and the “cowardly
Democrat” Gov. Steve Beshear will yield and appoint one of them. That Gov. Beshear would nominate a Dem. and then turn the National Guard loose on them if they too frisky with their guns does not occur to such wingnuts, because they cannot imagine being successfully thwarted.

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:58:29am

re: #40 palomino

You’re exactly right. Levin’s reference is absurd.

BTW, isn’t he supposed to be one of the GOP’s intellectuals?

A GOP intellectual is pretty much an oxymoron.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 28, 2015 • 4:59:46am

re: #53 Romantic Heretic

A GOP intellectual is pretty much an oxymoron.

or just a moron.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 28, 2015 • 5:04:01am

re: #53 Romantic Heretic

A GOP intellectual is pretty much an oxymoron.

No, that’s not the case. What is true is that people who do political talk radio aren’t intellectuals. Their function is not to think, its to fire up their party base.

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Jay in Oregon  Sep 28, 2015 • 5:23:17am

re: #41 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve come across the word “vril” before. Can’t remember where, though.

I know where I first heard references to the vril…

atomic-robo.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 28, 2015 • 5:34:59am

re: #56 Jay in Oregon

I know where I first heard references to the vril…

atomic-robo.com

Cool. A new webcomic to me!

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Franklin  Sep 28, 2015 • 5:36:27am

You really have to read the whole speech, it’s just, wow. That’s MY senior senator :)

Senator Warren’s Remarks at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate

A few great quotes that (aside from what Wesley quoted above):

As the Senior Senator from Massachusetts, I have the great honor of sitting at Senator Kennedy’s desk - right over there. The original, back in Washington, is a little more dented and scratched, but it has something very special in the drawer. Ted Kennedy carved his name in it. When I sit at my desk, sometimes when I’m waiting to speak or to vote, I open the drawer and run my thumb across his name. It reminds me of the high expectations of the people of Massachusetts, and I try, every day, to live up to the legacy he left behind.

Economic justice is not - and has never been - sufficient to ensure racial justice. Owning a home won’t stop someone from burning a cross on the front lawn. Admission to a school won’t prevent a beating on the sidewalk outside. But when Dr. King led hundreds of thousands of people to march on Washington, he talked about an end to violence, access to voting AND economic opportunity. As Dr. King once wrote, “the inseparable twin of racial injustice was economic injustice.”

You have to read the whole thing.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 28, 2015 • 6:03:27am

Charles I have been trying to pay for my subscription through your paypal link. I just received the 2nd notice that the payment failed. Is there another way I can pay for my subscription?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 28, 2015 • 6:06:55am

And the beat goes on: Deustche Welle reports this morning that BMW cars are emitting 11 times more pollution than the EU standard. BMW’s stock dropped 6% on the news.

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2015 • 6:08:03am

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

I was trying earlier to categorize Levin’s fallacy but it’s really an entire smorgasbord of bullshit. He’s begging the question because his assumption, that the 1st Amendment only prevents overt Theocracy, is also contained in his conclusion. There’s a fallacy of definition in his refusal to even say what secular means accept to imply that it is the opposite and therefore inexplicably also identical to religion. There is equivocation, theocracy is both a religiously based government and some ambiguous set of entirely religiously based legal restrictions that include the gay marriage ban that he asserts fall short of full blown theocracy. I’m sure I could go on.

Any government that strives towards a secular neutrality then, through the transitive property of pure distilled batshit and the magic of DARVO, becomes exact opposite of neutral and is somehow itself a type of religion.

When Levin throws together that pu pu platter of RWNJ platitudes and word salad, he doesn’t even bother to use any of the words as they are properly defined, so trying to parse through what he says is tantamount to deciphering gibberish. A babbling band of baboons would be easier to understand.

It is absolutely impossible to impose a secular religious sharia, not when secular and sharia are diametrically opposing concepts.

But that’s entirely the point to Levin. He’s trying to link the two together to give other RWNJs “intellectual” cover for spewing forth with their nonsensical gibberish about sharia law.

Never mind that the threat in the US is far greater that some Christian theocrat like Huckabee, Santorum, or Fischer tries to impose (and succeeds in some fashion) in subverting the 1A to impose their religious views/values on everyone else.

That’s why they’re flocking like moths to a flame to try and claim Kim Davis is a champion of the 1A, and not one of its more flagrant violators by imposing her religious BS on those living in her county. Because no one is forcing their religious views on her (she’s free to believe whatever she wants), but she’s imposing hers on the county by refusing to carry out SSM that is the law of the land.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 28, 2015 • 6:27:06am

Basically Levin like all right wing assholes just jumbles two things he doesn’t like just like they do with everything else.9

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E'Ville Mike  Sep 28, 2015 • 6:29:10am

My “ism” can beat up your “ism”.

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Bird in the Paw  Sep 28, 2015 • 6:42:12am

re: #44 Stephen T.

Well… part of the Second Amendment. They rarely seem to include the “well regulated” phrasing in most of their writings about it.

The include it when they try to dissemble and say that that ‘well regulated’ meant being able to shoot well, back then.

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William of Orange  Sep 28, 2015 • 9:56:01am

Confused citizen says what?

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team_fukit  Sep 28, 2015 • 10:19:22am

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

I’d call it a “category mistake”


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