The article says HOST COMMITTEE. That's the link. Democratic host committee refused the cardinal's opening prayers. The HOST COMMITTEE is composed of Democrats promoting the Democratic agenda of the DNC and they promoted the Islamic Prayers. our founders in the first amendment didn't want an establishment of religion, meaning recognition of a particular Christian denomination by the Federal Government. Nor do I believe they would want to establish or recognize any religion either as an official Federal religion. However the country is according to SCOTUS a Christian nation, meaning that people in general are Christian in name only or in reality. A Christian nation also implies that our juresprudence is based on the laws in the Hebrew bible or the Old teatament, not the Sharia or other legal syayems of the world.
That's so full of cognitive dissonance that I'm stunned. Our legal system is based on English common law, which itself borrows strongly from pre-christian Anglo-Saxon, Roman and early Germanic law. The entire idea for a trifecta of powers which are separated (executive, legislative and judiciary) comes from Anglo-Saxon legal tradition, one house of the legislative branch was given a Roman name (senate), the rest is draws very closely from English parliamentary system, with different names. I'm a mere product of public education, what are you?
The Founders, I think, didn't want to have tie-ins with religion-based legal systems of any sort. If you can point out specifically how our legal system mirrors Mosaic Law, you know, I'd be real interested to hear that. The only commonalities I can personally think of are commandments 6-10, which are pretty much representative in any civilized society's laws. Or do you also want to recognize Japan as Christian, because they have similar ideas about how things are run?
Also, upon examination*, The "HOST COMMITTEE" which you referred to so boldly, is a nonpartisan Charlotte, N.C. based organization (i.e. the city which is
*****HOST***** to the damned event!) which put the calender of events website up, where *users could submit their own events to the website*, just like I surmised in my prior post. Hosting a convention is a big deal to the economy of a City. It's entirely possible that individual Republicans were involved in the committee. In fact, it looks like there was at least one, Richard Vinroot, who was a Republican MAYOR of the city from '91-95, and gubernatorial candidate for the Republican party multiple times**.
*Enlighten yourself here:
http://factcheck.org/2012/08/muslim-prayer-service-at-the-dnc/
**Sources:
http://charlottein2012.com/steering_and_host_committee_membership/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Vinroot
I think you all are letting your blind hatred for a certain party and certain political ideology blind yourselves to fact that you're being led around by the nose. If the Catholics wanted a prayer party like the Islamists, they could have hosted their own event. I'm not surprised that they were turned down for an official prayer service, nor am I shocked or appalled, so long as they turn down every religion equally!
