by John Ruskin
I guess the lickspittle legislators who have long thought themselves man-gods of the masses are finally showing their true colors and contempt for faith. Their "sacred" wall of separation between church and state is now defined as separating morality and ethics from them (the state) while allowing them (the always ethical state) to intrude on the church.
What am I talking about? About the recent actions of the bespectacled Sen. Chucky Grassley from Iowa. The holier than thou Chucky is demanding that several ministries turn over their financial statements and records to his Senate Finance Committee so that the always fiscally responsible U.S. Senate can determine if the churches are spending their money in a way that meets with Chuck's approval. See story here.
Granted, any fiscal abuse within any church should be stopped. But isn't it the responsibility of those parishioners who give their money to the church to do so? And don't they usually do so? It seems a bit of a reach for the U.S. Senate to be involved in the private faith lives of individual Americans and their places of worship.
But then no issue is out of the reach of arrogant, misanthropes like Sen. Charles Ernest Grassley.
