From: Randall Parker 

In article , sdurrett{at}pacbell.net says...
> Both of those acts are blatant violations of the First and Fourteenth
> Amendments as they are currently interpreted,

And I _like_ the current interpretation.

>but that interpretation is
> something Reps. Barr and Aderholt find deeply offensive ... and it could
> be changed by a simple piece of federal legislation increasing the size
> of the Supreme Court from 9 to 19, with reversal of Gitlow v. New York
> being the litmus test for confirmation of the additional members.

The dictatorship of the representatives of the majority is never that far away.

>As
> someone who refuses to comply with the first four commandments, I never,
> ever forget that my right not to be a Christian is a fragile thing, just
> a majority vote away from disappearing..

I view these attempts to promote Christianity to be a threat to libery.
However, I think the threat we face from the left is bigger. I say this
just based on the current size of the government and its regulatory reach.

The most worrisome (and little noticed) trend under the Clinton
Administration has been the extent to which the Clinton appointees to run
the regulatory agencies have found that they didn't need to get legislation
thru Congress in order to massively rewrite and change the character of
their regulations. This is even more worrisome precisely because the
average citizen has a much harder time understanding changes in what
regulatory agencies do as compared to understanding issues of religious
freedom.

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