Congress shall make no law...

Has anybody heard about the new license plates proposed in a handful of southern states? The custom plate features a large cross and the legend, "I Believe."

What's wrong with this picture?

Apparently, other faiths are free to do the same. Floridians might be allowed to order Star of David plates someday. The trouble is, the plates depicting images associated with any other faith would be restricted from using any words in the place of "I Believe." That right, that privilege, like so many in this great land, is reserved only for Christians. If the display cannot be equal, one faith is favored above the others, simple as that. Florida and South Carolina are working to deprive their citizens of their rights.

The part that really bothers me here is that the government officials in favor of this plate becoming available seem to have followed the sterling example of our current President in that they have never bothered to read the constitution. According to CNN, the feeling is merely this:"I think it allows people of faith to profess that they believe in a higher calling, they believe in God," said Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer. Only what the Right people believe is important. Making second-class citizens out of everyone else, making a doily out of the Constitution is not.

Any opposition to this plate is being labeled discrimination. I don't want to get off on a rant here, but Christians in this country seem to scream OPPRESSION faster than Al Sharpton at a lynching contest. Anyone who dares oppose the God-given right of Christians to homogenize this nation and ram their faith down the throats of anyone who has the misfortune to be behind them in traffic is a BIGOT. Christians are such the victims of prejudice. Give me a break.

Christians are not maligned as terrorists or murderers. Christians are not kept out of jobs or housing by a silent majority that fears their interaction. Christians in the middle east are oppressed. Christians in Asia are oppressed. Here, in the land of the two-month long Christmas creche madness, Christian government officials, Christian police, and the Christian standard imposed on the behavior and life events of everyone, they are not. America's Christians, you are safe. Try to act it out gratefully.

Being deprived of the ability to oppress other people is NOT discrimination. Being stopped tooth and nail by the minority from dragging this nation into hegemony is NOT discrimination.

All Americans have the right to believe or not believe. And to say so. It's high time we stopped acting like there's only one game in town.