Brownback was /is quite the ass … once heard he was not always that way - but quite some time ago determined he would get a greater ROI on his effort if he invested heavily in being a repugnant jerk
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Yes. So when Trump offered him that ambassadorship for freedom of religion, he jumped at it. The legislature (GOP-controlled, but with more moderates in his second term) had just overridden his veto of their bill restoring all the tax cuts he’d had passed, and he figured, why stick around?
His final act was, at his last State of the State address, in which the gov. is supposed to present spending priorities (he’d already announced his resignation, and people wondered why he was delivering the address), was to both propose re-instating the tax cuts and fund K-12 education at the just under $600 million dollars the courts kept telling him was the proper funding level, with no suggestion whatsoever regarding how the state might accomplish that. Just a big ol’ raised middle finger to the state, is what that speech was.
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What but Krazy can one expect from Krazy Kristians?
Ah, if we only could be so lucky…
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The thing is, if they were specifically regulating churches or religions only, then yeah, that’s a problem.
But if you a creating a general public health regulation that applies to religious gatherings and activities as well as every other type of gathering or activity or business, then there is absolutely no reason churches or religions should be exempt from the same health regulations that everyone else is required to follow.
In this country, we’re very confused about what freedom of religion is.
It doesn’t mean, churches and religions can do whatever they want. It means government can’t single them out for special, restrictive treatment.
There are of course edge cases here and there but this order is the polar opposite of an edge case.
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Allowing religious organizations – and no others – to make their own decisions whether or not to meet in groups endangering themselves and others grants them privileges beyond the rest of us. It is an establishment of religion.
It makes as much sense as granting them the right to decide whether they are going to follow the fire code.
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Out of my lane here, but I’ll venture out carefully to make a layman’s observation the spread of the outbreak looks surprisingly evenly spread out across the entire nation with certain areas harder hit for logical reasons of incoming travel and population density that you would expect.
That is concerning.
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The cat is out of bag for basically the entire country. There are simply too many places where there are too many cases to contain…
If you want to feel warm and fuzzy, see this post and the followups.
Other states may have nut case Pastors but the legislature does not believe that any such exist in Kansas? Rather have more people die than offend the churches? They should be hearing from the ministers and priests en masse.
Not holding my breath.
The Darwin Awards Ceremony this year … too soon?
Initially, no one had any idea how long the virus could continue to exist in a freezer.
especially the potluck meatloaf…
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North Carolina is in a situation similar to Kansas. We have a Democratic governor and the state SC is not controlled by the GOP. We have slowly been getting back to a government that represents the majority of the residents in spite of the facist GOP majorities in both Houses. They lost their super majorities, which make the governor’s vetoes stick and the Dems may have a majority in one or both state Houses after the 2020 elections. That won’t happen in Kansas but you at least have the opportunity to get control of the government back from the radical right. It will be a long slog but not losing the state SC to the Repukes was critical in both states. WI unfortunately lost all three branches and they have a much longer road to recovery.
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Is 102% near enough?