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WHEN DISCRIMINATION IS A VERY GOOD THING Thee are several definitions for discrimination and discriminatory. The power or ability to perceive distinctions or differences diocemment"to discriminate between good and e'and'making or capable of making distinctions, discriminating" As a practical matter, we go through fe discriminating the price of something better at one store than another involves discrimination. Comparison of the products, soe. quality, enc al involve discrimination. The ability to reason, and think criticaly, to giide us in making good choices is the hallmark of a good education. A good education inspires reading because reading is one of the main ways knowledge is shared. Good ibraries are wondertul things. And a massive amount of information ia now avalable to those with computer and internet access. This is most of us in the United States. ke to use a free site, wikipedia.org becauseitis not a commercial site. They do not track usage and they do not sell ads. Your reading will not be internupted by some tangeted messaging paid for by some badundisclosed actons wanting to deceive or misinfom you in some way which happens with"vocial" media Simlar benefts can be gained by going to your Phone SettinguSafarsearch Engine and selecting DuckDucGo as your default search engine. It does not track usage either (Wikipedia has no relation to wikileaksRoger Stonehis involvement in dsrupting the 2016 election Wkipediaisa crowd sourced encyclopedia. Recently, lentered "Ancient Rome'n wkipeduah search bar, and spert an interesting atemoon reading about is history, from about 753 BC to 476 AD. Not all that long ago. We learn that Ancient Roman ovilization has contributed to modern language, religion, society. technology, law politics govermment, warfare, art iterature, architecture and engineering Italso contributed to the fom of our modem republic. We leam there wan a constintion in place around 500BC with a series of checks and balances, and a separation of powers. Bound famila Canar. This is something people do sometimes Tum people into gods. Christiam deifed Jeus and his tather. "Ancient Rome'na good read, particularty becase t involves our hintory ifwe trace our history to Europe, North Atrica, or the Middie East Just because people made Caeser, keus, Mars, Zeus and the hundreds of other gods at various points in time, some even in the same place- the Meditemanean with al of ts gods and goddesses, for example, does not, of couse, mean that they are real. They are made eal by people, stories. Bibles, and myths. Being able to separate and distinguish tings made by up by people and whether those things are actually real is an important part of our education, and our ability to think and act in a ational manner. But Guess What Happens When Five of Nine Supreme Court Justices Are Indoctrinated With Roman Catholicism Watch Out Protestants And the Rest Of Americans-What is Left Of Nonreligoius Public Education? For more than 200 year, our court systems have recognized our separationof church from govemment. Our founding documents were the deect result of a desire to be free from kings and derics. We were tired of the King telling us what taxes we should send to England. And we were tired of clerics telling us what and how to think about matters of religion. True liberty meant, and means, freedom om govermments which do not epresent the people, and freedom from those who would tell un that we must submit our intellects and wilh to the Pope. (Which the Catholic Church stil does in Ca nonical Law 752 This is the furthest thing one can imagine to liberty, and the freedoms set forth in the First Amendment to our Constitution. These freedoms were not available when religion controls government. This Canonical Laws antieducation. It affects even adults' ablity to discriminate between neality and religious mythology. Remember that patriotim and religiosity are two very distinct matters. Book secommendation as to these points-The Founding Myth by Andrew Seidel An early Chritian incukation and indoctrination has cauned our present Supreme Court to contend that the public should now pay for Catholic, and other Christian schools. We should all be very larmed. Before l continue, is important to remember, again, that the stories these people and others are taught from Bibles are not true, in terms of supernatural, revelation, miracle type infa. There is no hell or heaven. There is no afterite When you see Franklin Gaham or his colleagues teling you that you and your family ane sinners, and you must ask forgiveness, just say 'ne or hell no'if you want. There are so many wonderhul things for you and your family to spend time learming about. Planetariums, astronomy, natural history, dinosaurs evolution, how things work in terms of physics gravity, elements, and chemistry are all guit free fun things to lean about Skip the sinner nonmense and live an optimistic, productive, positive life. Keep learning new things. Do not sutject your family to a Christian school, where their natural curiosity about some of the most basic questions about Christian mythology wil be orushed. They deserve a good seculatinonveligious education, whether private or public, and where these matters are explored, to properly educate our citiens As Austice Sotomayor observed in her dissent the Espinora ruling was perverse. The State of Montana had disposed of the scholarship program which was the subject of the undertying case She concludes by noting that the five justices in the majority ejects the Religion Clauses balanced values in favor of a new theory of tee exercise, and it does so only by setting anide well establuhed judicial constraints All Americans should want those judicial constraints back in place. Whar's next, public funding of Madrassas? Justice Alito's concurrence with the majority is noteworthy. He wanted to let us know just how badly Catholics had been discriminated against-by Protestants. He goes on and on about the Blaine Amendment (the predecessor of Montaru's and Alaska's no-aid to religious schools constitutional languagel and discrimination against Catholicism. He inchudes a cartoon from 1871, which depicts Calholic priests as crocodles sithering hungrily oward American children ana public school crumblerin the background We well now. Jutice Alito and his colleagues seem oblivious to Cathol cism in Europe, and its quest for dominance of al religious thought. Poignanty, and without any shame there is not even a mention of the thousands of Carholic and other children, al over the world Coure ede doph and discr af he ddd iding the facts, leaving them and their famles to suffer Of And, yen Americans are not in favor of paying for any religious education/indoctrination/inculation whether or not Christiam would like the pubic to do sa Prejudice and dscrimination comes with our Constitution if you are asking for public funds for religious education. James Madiison argued that compelling state sponsorship of religion via public funding wasa signal of persecution' that degrades from the equal rank of citizens all those of whose opinions in eligion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority Thomas efferson expressed similar views noting it was inful and tyrannical"to compel one to furrish money for the propagation of religious opiniom which he disbelieves. These ae hrom Justice Breyer's disent. An alarming eample eplaining why it is sinful and tyrannical to suggest Americans should help pay for a Catholic education is found in Austice Thomat' veparate concumrence, He disagrees with the view that government should treat all eligions equaly, and treat religion equally to nonveligion. He apparently believes that States can establish religion and impose taxes to support religion on everyone. This view was not joined by the majority of justices who form the majority in Espinora, but Justice Gorsuch did join, so we coulG hang by a very thin thread in terms of establishing Christianity, and per haps Catholicium, an the entablihed religion of various state. And we ae jast learnring of hundreds of milions of public funds now going to Christian geoups under pandemic reliel programs. Stay tuned Why All The Hostility From Mainstream Media, Military Leaders, and The Vast Majority of Americans Towards Religion, Miracle Believers, Science Deniers, and Republicans? Remembec it was just lst February that Trump told Americans we had nothing to be concerned aboue The vinus would just go away like a mirade. VP Pence said the pandemic would be over by the end of May. Wearing offace masks was dehnitely optional, especialy you did not want to follow guidelnes issued by federal and state governments to limit the spread of the vinus, and to avoid overburden- ing our health care system. Because the virus does not care about anyone's ideas of penonal liberty, or desine to mix with othens, despite being told not ta we just hit over 0.000 new infections in ONE DAY, The virus is spreading without any control no. Hospitals are overwhelmed in Arizona, Tesas, and Florida. We are stil in the frst wave. Over 3 million Americans have tested positive. Over 130,000 are dead, and that figure is iing This means more Americans are aleady dead than deaths from the Koman, Vietram, Afghanistan and itaq mitary interventions, combined This is a public health orisis. We al have to pay for in variouS ays. We are seriously weakening our economy, and stressing our health care, and assisted iving and long term care operations in ways that never should have happened. Some of these employees pass away Many may leave their jobs due to stress, and lack of federal leadership to address the pandemic and supplies to keep them and their families sale. A few have sadly taken their own ves, being unable to help and watching so many de alone. There are many cost. Other countries knew how to get this virun controlled quickly, and they dd sa. They will be much better off than Americans. And this is largely becase Republicans chose and then left an incompetent President in office, and are afraid to say sa. VP Pence would have dealt with this pandemic aflerently Anyone would have dealt with this differently. Ifthe military had been given the lead to deal with this three months ago. they would have folowed what others did. Establish supples for testing, tracing quarantining to severely restrict the spread. The military would have ensured an ample supply of NOS and other PPE equipment for thase dealing with COVID-19. This is not about geting reelected This is about the lack of mature leadership, and not leaming tom what othen have done. Lets see fTrump and Republicans attack the mesenger, Dr. Anthony fauc sather than dealing with the facts. Avoid things, hide things. H junt makes everything wone. As General Mattis noted, we are observing the consequences of three yean without mature leadership. And as Senator Lindsey Graham stated, Trump is a race baiting senophobic eligious bigot" We can and must do much better with elections this year. Vote for Democats and independents this November. Remember, we are al humans. We can have dafteent opinions about things. There are often three diferent opinions about things. Yours, mine, and the truth Let's work together to unite the country, and towards tinding the truth Please try to think about whether it makes any sense whatsoever to have adults stit claiming that Jesus had a non-bio- logical dad, died and came back alive and ffoated in the ait, defying gravity. and the other supematural events which no one will ever be able to verity. Innocent, reasonable questionm from young children land everyone elsei indlude did Jesus have brothers and sisters from the same dad, and how did his dad get his mom pregnant? Why submit your intellect and your will, and those of your children, to these storien If they were real you wouid not be required to do this Wear a mask when appropriate. Be safe Be nice to yourselt, and to others. Get outside for some exercise when you can, Lets keep the conversation going Dave Carter, Retired Attormey Anchorage 34-40 WHEN DISCRIMINATION IS A VERY GOOD THING Thee are several definitions for discrimination and discriminatory. The power or ability to perceive distinctions or differences diocemment"to discriminate between good and e'and'making or capable of making distinctions, discriminating" As a practical matter, we go through fe discriminating the price of something better at one store than another involves discrimination. Comparison of the products, soe. quality, enc al involve discrimination. The ability to reason, and think criticaly, to giide us in making good choices is the hallmark of a good education. A good education inspires reading because reading is one of the main ways knowledge is shared. Good ibraries are wondertul things. And a massive amount of information ia now avalable to those with computer and internet access. This is most of us in the United States. ke to use a free site, wikipedia.org becauseitis not a commercial site. They do not track usage and they do not sell ads. Your reading will not be internupted by some tangeted messaging paid for by some badundisclosed actons wanting to deceive or misinfom you in some way which happens with"vocial" media Simlar benefts can be gained by going to your Phone SettinguSafarsearch Engine and selecting DuckDucGo as your default search engine. It does not track usage either (Wikipedia has no relation to wikileaksRoger Stonehis involvement in dsrupting the 2016 election Wkipediaisa crowd sourced encyclopedia. Recently, lentered "Ancient Rome'n wkipeduah search bar, and spert an interesting atemoon reading about is history, from about 753 BC to 476 AD. Not all that long ago. We learn that Ancient Roman ovilization has contributed to modern language, religion, society. technology, law politics govermment, warfare, art iterature, architecture and engineering Italso contributed to the fom of our modem republic. We leam there wan a constintion in place around 500BC with a series of checks and balances, and a separation of powers. Bound famila Canar. This is something people do sometimes Tum people into gods. Christiam deifed Jeus and his tather. "Ancient Rome'na good read, particularty becase t involves our hintory ifwe trace our history to Europe, North Atrica, or the Middie East Just because people made Caeser, keus, Mars, Zeus and the hundreds of other gods at various points in time, some even in the same place- the Meditemanean with al of ts gods and goddesses, for example, does not, of couse, mean that they are real. They are made eal by people, stories. Bibles, and myths. Being able to separate and distinguish tings made by up by people and whether those things are actually real is an important part of our education, and our ability to think and act in a ational manner. But Guess What Happens When Five of Nine Supreme Court Justices Are Indoctrinated With Roman Catholicism Watch Out Protestants And the Rest Of Americans-What is Left Of Nonreligoius Public Education? For more than 200 year, our court systems have recognized our separationof church from govemment. Our founding documents were the deect result of a desire to be free from kings and derics. We were tired of the King telling us what taxes we should send to England. And we were tired of clerics telling us what and how to think about matters of religion. True liberty meant, and means, freedom om govermments which do not epresent the people, and freedom from those who would tell un that we must submit our intellects and wilh to the Pope. (Which the Catholic Church stil does in Ca nonical Law 752 This is the furthest thing one can imagine to liberty, and the freedoms set forth in the First Amendment to our Constitution. These freedoms were not available when religion controls government. This Canonical Laws antieducation. It affects even adults' ablity to discriminate between neality and religious mythology. Remember that patriotim and religiosity are two very distinct matters. Book secommendation as to these points-The Founding Myth by Andrew Seidel An early Chritian incukation and indoctrination has cauned our present Supreme Court to contend that the public should now pay for Catholic, and other Christian schools. We should all be very larmed. Before l continue, is important to remember, again, that the stories these people and others are taught from Bibles are not true, in terms of supernatural, revelation, miracle type infa. There is no hell or heaven. There is no afterite When you see Franklin Gaham or his colleagues teling you that you and your family ane sinners, and you must ask forgiveness, just say 'ne or hell no'if you want. There are so many wonderhul things for you and your family to spend time learming about. Planetariums, astronomy, natural history, dinosaurs evolution, how things work in terms of physics gravity, elements, and chemistry are all guit free fun things to lean about Skip the sinner nonmense and live an optimistic, productive, positive life. Keep learning new things. Do not sutject your family to a Christian school, where their natural curiosity about some of the most basic questions about Christian mythology wil be orushed. They deserve a good seculatinonveligious education, whether private or public, and where these matters are explored, to properly educate our citiens As Austice Sotomayor observed in her dissent the Espinora ruling was perverse. The State of Montana had disposed of the scholarship program which was the subject of the undertying case She concludes by noting that the five justices in the majority ejects the Religion Clauses balanced values in favor of a new theory of tee exercise, and it does so only by setting anide well establuhed judicial constraints All Americans should want those judicial constraints back in place. Whar's next, public funding of Madrassas? Justice Alito's concurrence with the majority is noteworthy. He wanted to let us know just how badly Catholics had been discriminated against-by Protestants. He goes on and on about the Blaine Amendment (the predecessor of Montaru's and Alaska's no-aid to religious schools constitutional languagel and discrimination against Catholicism. He inchudes a cartoon from 1871, which depicts Calholic priests as crocodles sithering hungrily oward American children ana public school crumblerin the background We well now. Jutice Alito and his colleagues seem oblivious to Cathol cism in Europe, and its quest for dominance of al religious thought. Poignanty, and without any shame there is not even a mention of the thousands of Carholic and other children, al over the world Coure ede doph and discr af he ddd iding the facts, leaving them and their famles to suffer Of And, yen Americans are not in favor of paying for any religious education/indoctrination/inculation whether or not Christiam would like the pubic to do sa Prejudice and dscrimination comes with our Constitution if you are asking for public funds for religious education. James Madiison argued that compelling state sponsorship of religion via public funding wasa signal of persecution' that degrades from the equal rank of citizens all those of whose opinions in eligion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority Thomas efferson expressed similar views noting it was inful and tyrannical"to compel one to furrish money for the propagation of religious opiniom which he disbelieves. These ae hrom Justice Breyer's disent. An alarming eample eplaining why it is sinful and tyrannical to suggest Americans should help pay for a Catholic education is found in Austice Thomat' veparate concumrence, He disagrees with the view that government should treat all eligions equaly, and treat religion equally to nonveligion. He apparently believes that States can establish religion and impose taxes to support religion on everyone. This view was not joined by the majority of justices who form the majority in Espinora, but Justice Gorsuch did join, so we coulG hang by a very thin thread in terms of establishing Christianity, and per haps Catholicium, an the entablihed religion of various state. And we ae jast learnring of hundreds of milions of public funds now going to Christian geoups under pandemic reliel programs. Stay tuned Why All The Hostility From Mainstream Media, Military Leaders, and The Vast Majority of Americans Towards Religion, Miracle Believers, Science Deniers, and Republicans? Remembec it was just lst February that Trump told Americans we had nothing to be concerned aboue The vinus would just go away like a mirade. VP Pence said the pandemic would be over by the end of May. Wearing offace masks was dehnitely optional, especialy you did not want to follow guidelnes issued by federal and state governments to limit the spread of the vinus, and to avoid overburden- ing our health care system. Because the virus does not care about anyone's ideas of penonal liberty, or desine to mix with othens, despite being told not ta we just hit over 0.000 new infections in ONE DAY, The virus is spreading without any control no. Hospitals are overwhelmed in Arizona, Tesas, and Florida. We are stil in the frst wave. Over 3 million Americans have tested positive. Over 130,000 are dead, and that figure is iing This means more Americans are aleady dead than deaths from the Koman, Vietram, Afghanistan and itaq mitary interventions, combined This is a public health orisis. We al have to pay for in variouS ays. We are seriously weakening our economy, and stressing our health care, and assisted iving and long term care operations in ways that never should have happened. Some of these employees pass away Many may leave their jobs due to stress, and lack of federal leadership to address the pandemic and supplies to keep them and their families sale. A few have sadly taken their own ves, being unable to help and watching so many de alone. There are many cost. Other countries knew how to get this virun controlled quickly, and they dd sa. They will be much better off than Americans. And this is largely becase Republicans chose and then left an incompetent President in office, and are afraid to say sa. VP Pence would have dealt with this pandemic aflerently Anyone would have dealt with this differently. Ifthe military had been given the lead to deal with this three months ago. they would have folowed what others did. Establish supples for testing, tracing quarantining to severely restrict the spread. The military would have ensured an ample supply of NOS and other PPE equipment for thase dealing with COVID-19. This is not about geting reelected This is about the lack of mature leadership, and not leaming tom what othen have done. Lets see fTrump and Republicans attack the mesenger, Dr. Anthony fauc sather than dealing with the facts. Avoid things, hide things. H junt makes everything wone. As General Mattis noted, we are observing the consequences of three yean without mature leadership. And as Senator Lindsey Graham stated, Trump is a race baiting senophobic eligious bigot" We can and must do much better with elections this year. Vote for Democats and independents this November. Remember, we are al humans. We can have dafteent opinions about things. There are often three diferent opinions about things. Yours, mine, and the truth Let's work together to unite the country, and towards tinding the truth Please try to think about whether it makes any sense whatsoever to have adults stit claiming that Jesus had a non-bio- logical dad, died and came back alive and ffoated in the ait, defying gravity. and the other supematural events which no one will ever be able to verity. Innocent, reasonable questionm from young children land everyone elsei indlude did Jesus have brothers and sisters from the same dad, and how did his dad get his mom pregnant? Why submit your intellect and your will, and those of your children, to these storien If they were real you wouid not be required to do this Wear a mask when appropriate. Be safe Be nice to yourselt, and to others. Get outside for some exercise when you can, Lets keep the conversation going Dave Carter, Retired Attormey Anchorage 34-40