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HB 34: Which version, again?

02 Monday Dec 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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General Assembly, Hardy Billington, HB 34, K-12 education, missouri, public schools, religion, right wingnut, Ten Commandments

“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” – Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755)

Hardy Billington (r) [2022 file photo].

Bill prefiling for the 2025 legislative session has started.

Right off the bat:

FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 34 [pdf]
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BILLINGTON.

0241H.01I
DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 171, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the Ten Commandments in schools.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 171, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 171.022, to read as follows:

171.022. 1. As used in this section, “Ten Commandments” means the following text:
“The Ten Commandments
I AM the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images.
Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

2. Beginning on January1,2026, each school district’s school board and charter school’s governing board shall display the Ten Commandments in each building and classroom under the school board’s or governing board’s jurisdiction, subject to at least the following requirements:
(1) The nature of such display shall be determined by each school board and governing board;
(2) Such display shall be composed of, at a minimum, a poster or framed document that is at least eleven inches by fourteen inches; and
(3) The text of the Ten Commandments shall be the central focus of the poster or framed document and shall be printed in a large, easily readable font.

3. (1) A school board or governing board may spend the board’s moneys or donated moneys to purchase the displays.
(2) A school board or governing board may accept donated displays.
(3) This section shall not be construed to require a school board or governing board to spend the board’s moneys to purchase displays.

4. The state board of education may promulgate all necessary rules and regulations for the administration of this section. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are non-severable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after the effective date of this section shall be invalid and void.

In the U.S. Constitution:

Article VI

…no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…

There you go.

Adult keeps striking out while attempting to play T-ball

03 Monday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford, social media

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Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

Last Saturday afternoon:

Mark Alford @markalfordkc
We are all created in the image of God. That’s a responsibility not a license.
10:39 PM · Apr 1, 2023

Some of the responses:

That’s YOUR belief. You do not get to impose it in others… Also how’s that work for you homophobes? Clearly LGBTQ folks are also born in G*d’s image. I’ll bet you are also one of those fundies who has a fit if anyone says “she” when referring to G*d.

I have to ask then. Why is god so ugly?

Failing to make the connection here Mark….??

A lot of people I see wear it like a flag on the back of their pickup. My Faith is between my God & me. God & person were The Church long before there was a church. Just live right no matter what you believe. The Golden Rule is present in all societies, even ‘Godless’ ones, Mark.

I look a lot like my dad . MY DAD IS GOD! HOLY SHIT!

Nope.

Then you are failing in yours.

I’ve always said “God doesn’t make mistakes”, but in your case I have to make an exception.

Ouch.

Then how do you square your actions and the actions of your colleagues with this statement? You treat the least among us like trash, just like Jesus was treated. Shame on you.

You believe what you want in your religion. Just remember your religion is yours not others.
All that matters to the US government is our constitution.
[….]

Some people have ugly gods.

That doesn’t even mean anything. I’m sorry.

Irony is dead.

Which God?

When do I turn blue and get lots of extra arms? Polytheism has way cooler gods.

So what your saying is god is infallible? If that’s the case why do you want to strip the rights away from “gods” children?

Which god, Peanut?

And God doesn’t use guns.

It’s fitting that you posted this on April 1, to be known from this day forward as Mark Alford Day.

God’s kind of a dick, huh, Mark?

And you are bound to leave your religious beliefs out of government and legislation. We are the most religious diverse country in the world thanks to the constitution.

“God did not respond with a comment.”

Previously:

April Fool (April 2, 2023)

More April Fool (April 2, 2023)

April Fool

02 Sunday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate

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April fool, bumper sticker, Fascist pig, Ghandi, religion, right wingnut, social media, U.S. Senate, Virginia, Virginia. Josh Hawley

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

[image cropped]

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
The answer is no

[….]
Has The White House Even Said The Word ‘Christian’ Since The Nashville School Shooting?

7:29 PM · Apr 1, 2023

Some of the responses:

Has Missouri’s puny-fisted insurrectionist said ‘AR-15’ even once in the wake of yet another massacre attributal to the NRA’s slaughter machine?
The answer is no.

There’s that.

We. Don’t. Care. Hypocritical. Fake. Christian. Freak.

Democrats are abomination to God

Yeah? Good.

An old bumper sticker:

Probably not actually attributable to Ghandi.

We get the point, though.

I’m not sure, maybe you can ask @POTUS @JoeBiden after he gets out of church.

Ya know, the man who attends each week without fail. When’s the last time you went and just didn’t use it as a prop?

Who fucking cares???

Has he acted more like a Christian than any republican currently holding office? Yes.

Hmm… you know that being a Christian isn’t like signing up for Hulu… just saying you are one doesn’t mean anything… going to church regularly doesn’t do it either.. and our belief one way or the other doesn’t make any difference either..

Using Christianity as a tool of division is pretty pathetic Hawley

What the hell is happening to this country. Isn’t the president a Christian?

Joe Biden (D) [2014 file photo].

Religion has no business in politics…even though Joe is a devout Christian..it doesn’t mean he isn’t one because he didn’t say it after the shooting. Y’all are just grasping at straws. Nothing better to talk about..how about some gun legislation to keep people from getting guns that shouldn’t have them??

How ridiculous Joshy!

Good. Religion doesn’t belong in our government. The founders made that perfectly clear.

This is anti-Catholic bile spewed by the evangelical right.
When will Hawley be real and confirm his permanent address in Virginia?
The answer is probably no.

Even if true (which I doubt), I don’t see the problem. Biden almost certainly hasn’t said, “Scientology” either. As these two sects have precisely the same status in the #Constitution, r u also upset on their account? Guns kill kids in #schoolshooings. That’s all. #GunControlNow

Oops, Hawley lied. The school is a Christian school and as such “Christian” has been mentioned numerous times, including by Biden.
What Hawley is attempting to insinuate is that the White House hasn’t supported Hawley’s false claim of it being a hate crime against Christians. It was a revenge crime, not a hate crime, triggered by the death of a school friend.
I find it sickening that the murder of 6 people, 3 of them 9 year old kids, is being twisted into a false claim for politics. What kind of person uses the murder of children like that?

Revealing…

Says the fist pumping domestic terrorists guy who tried to overturn an election in order to install the thrice philandering, serially lying ‘disciple of Jesus’ who mocked a disabled reporter & bragged about sexually assaulting women.

You’re about as hypocritical as they come.

Has the Republican party agreed to address gun violence and the proliferation of guns in the US. The answer is NO.

Hey Josh the word Christian isn’t mentioned once in the constitution. Is this some magical word that brings them back from death?

President Biden is Catholic , he tries to go to Delaware every weekend to attend Mass with his family, speedy [….]

If he has been baptized and confirmed as a Catholic, then he is. Don’t like it? Deal with it.

And being a Republican or putting it in your Twitter bio certainly doesn’t.

Really wish you showed even one ounce as much energy for the Christians that Dylan Roof slaughtered.

Or, did they not matter to you for some reason?

He’s the first Catholic President of the United States. He doesn’t have to say anything!

Actually, the second.

Please explain your Christian values to me.
[….]

It’s not his job to promote any specific religion. It’s not yours either unless you can find me a passage supporting pandering to evangelicals for cash. [….]

Why does it need to? It’s about the children, the victims, families, staff & the fact the shooter was a former student.

Hate-filled GOP like you, are the ones that work very hard to divide & create fear/hate amongst other Americans.

And that’s great news. Separation of church and state. Go thump your bible somewhere else.

President Biden attends church services regularly –
If you are a true Christian you don’t have to keep announcing it with a bull horn – people know by your character & your deeds.

I don’t recall the Republican Party ever trying so hard to make our Country their church until their savior Trump, the lifelong con, pretended he’s a Christian. Josh the zealot is a blasphemous coward. Anyone who supports his beliefs are hypocritical bigots.

“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.”

I appreciate a President that understands the principle of separation of church and state. Now go for a run traitor Hawley

Fun fact!! Saying the word Christian doesn’t make you a Christian. Contrary to Republican grift.

That man lives the Christian life every single day. You may go to church, but you preach hate of others. That is not Christian.

Keep your religion out of our government, keep your religion to yourself, it’s up to you. Don’t act like you are a good Christian, Pathetic, insurrectionist! God I guarantee doesn’t like fascism. And most of the world doesn’t!

Because Christians aren’t the only people who live in this country and they sure don’t matter more than others. No hate like Christian love.
[….]

Have you said anything about passing common sense gun laws to stop the increase of mass shootings?

Why would he need to? It was a Christian raised past student shooting their Christian school. You all are so desperate to be oppressed and it’s really sad.

Nothing says Christian better than Republicans not voting for a better gun law bill to help keep our kids safe. And you call yourself pro life.

The important word is child. Yes, the children were Christians, but being Christian does not mean their lives were more precious that other children that were killed. If you are a Christian you should know this. Instead, you sound as if you are trying to make political hay out of a tragedy.

Josh, you are such a fraud so that you can lure the ignorant trump rubes in to support you. You know that the constitution provides for the separation of church and state. But you’re just pandering to the rubes.

Whatever for?

SQUIRREL

No one fucking cares, Josh.

Who cares?? The USA is filled with humans that worship differently, they aren’t Christian’s & that’s okay. Why don’t you mind your own business with regard to your evangelical insanity and stop trying to push your evangelical white nationalist fascist dictator agenda in a democratic republic? The USA majority is not interested in your clown show.

JESUS, god almighty, JOSH, we know you’re not just a christian, but a white evangelical nationalist, the core insects of MAGA and the fomenters of the J-6 insurrection. Remember your solidarity with the traitors and then run from them. You’re such a twit

So you’re splitting hairs about the word Christian instead of actually finding solutions to gun violence. The gun violence that’s the leading cause of death for children in this country.

Stuck on the word Christian instead of the loss of six lives….you care more about the label then the lives lost….you’re in a cult….

Hawley, don’t be such a dick-head. First of all, there has been no motive establishing the intent behind the killer’s massacre was to kill Christians. nor was there a manifesto left behind by the killer indicating the same. So, what’s your idiotic point?
Previously you were trying to convince the public that the killings should be described as “hate crimes”. Why, where’s the connection?

You look familiar. Are you the cowardly traitor who supported the insurrectionists, then had to run for your life from the insurrectionists?
[….]

Whose?

01 Saturday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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A billboard in west central Missouri:

Just asking.

Mark Alford (r) steps in it…again

30 Thursday Mar 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford, social media

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Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

Late on Tuesday, from former newsreader Mark Alford (r):

[image cropped]

Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Jesus Christ is the answer.
[….]
10:32 PM · Mar 28, 2023

Some of the responses:

You’re kidding, right?

Unfortunately, No. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

Jesus Christ helped me save 15% on my car insurance by telling me to switch to Geico.

He ain’t walking through that door.

The problem is, you don’t even care to understand the question.. so, when the going gets rough, you throw the name of Jesus around to cover your sins, bc you believe it can’t possibly be the guns? [….] IT’S THE GUNS MARK! [….]

Then why didn’t he protect the elementy school? Were they not praying hard enough?

He wasn’t the answer for people in a . Christian school. Kind of left his people high and dry there didn’t he

From the way you turned out, he doesn’t have much to be proud of. [….]

Responsible gun laws are the answer.

This is the all time laziest excuse for doing nothing.

[….] this is such a lame response

I hate when republicans invoke Christ and behave nothing like Him. Jesus would not recognize the Republican Party as Christians. Like the Bible says, “you’ll know them by their fruit.”

“What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?” James 2:14

Obviously Jesus wasn’t the answer. Self serving politicians aren’t the answer either. None of you have shown that you actually care for the safety of children.

Electing lawmakers with the guts to do what’s necessary to save lives in this country is the answer. You’re not one of them. Vote him out Missouri 4th.

Jesus Christ – or any other “God” – has no place in our government.

We need change and policies not thoughts and prayers .

Why didn’t he just stop the shooter then? Letting those children die seems kind of cruel, doesn’t it?

The question is: “Who is someone currently very disappointed in Mark Alford?”

Jesus isn’t bringing back those 9 year olds

JFC you’re an awful person!!!!

Jesus Christ is the answer.

“Can you name a fictional character?” is the question.

If your response to another incident of children being murdered en masse is a make believe man in the clouds, please, do this country a favor and get out of politics because you clearly have no intention of creating positive change.

How many prayers before he actually answers you Mark?

So if there’s a fire, you just pray that Jesus puts it out? If a kid is choking, you just pray about it?

If that’s the case, why have guns at all? Just use prayer.

Okay, that’s a reference to smiting…

Lmfao

I can’t believe people voted for you.

Jesus likes guns and shooting kids?

Mark, we did not elected to Congress to preach the word of God. We asked you to change policy. If that means sponsoring legislation that takes guns out of hands, that’s what it means. It’s not about who loves Jesus Christ.

I am still trying to understand how you got elected.

Mail.

You misspelled cheese and rice.

Would you wake up already? Ever wonder if God is trying to send our country a message or is that reserved for thinking God wants Trump to be President?

Oh. My. God.

Shut up you overgrown street reporter. You were terrible as a newscaster and now you are terrible as a Congressperson. I pray Jesus sends you a sign to mend the error of your ways.

I stopped believing in fairytales and fictional characters after the tooth fairy fucked me over at 8 years old.

Dayam.

How’d that work out for the poor families who lost their children at a Christian school?

I’m pretty sure our Jewish and Muslim friends would disagree MAGA Mark.

He’s not doing a thing to help his people. So I think we need another answer.

Helluva ratio ya got here buddy.

Your Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu constituents may need to be informed.

People like you are the reason thousands of Americans are leaving the church.

The degree of delusion that you and your ilk possess is nauseating. I hope Jesus can forgive you Mark, but it’s not likely.

Republicans not being NRA whores is the answer.

Evil, is the GOP being bought by the NRA. Evil is no red flag laws that would prevent the majority of mass shootings. Evil is the refusal to ban AR-15’s in our country because your hobby is more important than our safety. Evil is pretending guns aren’t the problem.

Red flag laws and banning AR-15’s is the answer. Stop the bs rhetoric. This trope is so freaking old. The facts are the facts. The US is a gun sick country, the ONLY gun sick country full of greedy, soulless politicians who have sold their souls to the NRA devil for power and $.

Apparently not considering where the shooting happened. Put down your Bible and do your God damn job

If Jesus Christ is the answer, then why do we need politicians? You were elected to do a job, not to use religion as a justification for inaction to suit your (GQP) agenda. [….]

Man if this imaginary guy is capable of stopping school shootings he sure seems like a pretty big asshole to let someone shoot up a building meant for children to worship him.

You are deluded. Utterly lost.

Your “thoughts and prayers” do sweet FA.

Open your eyes, look around. Look at countries with proper gun control, and look at the lack of school shootings.

You utter idiot.

No you dumbfuck forcing your fucking religion on us isn’t the answer. Legislating fucking gun laws is. Every other civilized country in the world does it to great effect. Just. Like. Healthcare.

Where the fuck has he been, Mark? If he is the answer, why do we need your incompetent self in Washington?

You are a Stupid Person.
Quit speaking out loud.
It annoys everyone else…

Apparently, it’s all in how one kneels

27 Monday Jun 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media, US Senate

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establishment clause, prayer, religion, right wingnuts, social media, Supreme Court, Twitter, U.S. Senate, Vicky Hartzler

Colin Kaepernick would like a word.

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

Fidei Defensor:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
The Supreme Court sent a strong message today that religious freedom will not be imperiled in America.

No one should have to choose between their job and practicing their faith. #SCOTUS
[….]
10:42 AM · Jun 27, 2022

Some of the responses:

1/ Really? No one should have to choose between their job and practicing their faith.

If I firmly believe before the day begins, everyone must pray to my God so that our work is good and safe. And, people who don’t pray my way are not good people and must be fired.

2/ What should people do: if they are told this mandatory prayer is not in the interest of the company and if they insist on such a prayer they are fired, be fired for their beliefs or not follow their beliefs?

3/ In this country so far, you do not have the religious freedom to shove your beliefs down anyone’s throat and if people resist your beliefs, they should not be fired or harassed.

Sarcasm.

Correction: The Supreme Court sent a strong message today that we Christian theocrats have the religious freedom to shove our beliefs onto everyone in public places.

But he didn’t have to choose Vick, that’s the whole point. “The district said that some students felt pressured into taking part and that it offered alternative, less public places to pray after games.” Kennedy choose to defy that. Freedom comes with responsibility, period!
[….]

If I do something and my boss doesn’t like it, he tells me to stop and I do it anyway, I’m fired, that’s how it works. You GQPs made all these “at will” states and yet gripe when someone exercises it. Plus they offered accommodations, he chose to sue for 15-minutes of fame.

Fixed it:
“The Supreme Court sent a strong message today that Christian proselytizing will not be imperiled in America.”

You are a Christofascist. This isn’t your church. This is our country.

Serious question. Would you support a Muslim coach praying? Or someone else who isn’t Christian? I’ll wait.

Only yesterday she spoke our in favor of (another) Supreme Court decision that enforces Christian religious doctrine over the entire country. But you already know the answer to that.

Faith is not part of our government. Faith, civics and politics are separate entities. Can’t believe you don’t know that.

If a white man can kneel and pray in public (and be protected by a SCOTUS who CLEARLY does not represent a majority of US citizens), then so can those of us who kneel in protest. #ColinKaepernick

Pressuring students to pray with you is not religious freedom.

Kids shouldn’t be forced to pray by an authoritarian figure who decides play time

No is being denied their rights if they cant pray on a school football field – that is why we have church lady

We have entered an era of Christo fascism in this country.

Long before now.

So a white man can kneel and demonstrate what he believes in, but a black man can’t? Hypocrite. #ColinKaepernick

The problem with your position is that YOUR expression of religious freedom results in someone else’s coercion to comply (at worst) and possible shaming/bullying of non-Christian students (at best). It may be YOUR idea of freedom, but it stomps on other people’s rights.

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.”

Performative faith.

Uh, you voiced support for DJT’s proposed Muslim ban, Vic.

“Who’s that yonder, dressed in black? Must be the hypocrites a turnin’ back.”

16 Sunday Jan 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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hypocrites, meta, religion, right wingnuts

“…both have their advantages, ‘heaven for climate, hell for company’…” – Mark Twain’s Notebooks and Journals, vol. 3

Meta. On occasion we get comments which our system holds for approval. At times, when we’re particularly bored, we’ll take a comment that we wouldn’t normally remove from moderation and post it separately to mock it.

Today:

The thing is, is people want to go to hell then that’s their choice! Religion isn’t forced upon anyone! But christians are forces to deal with lots and lots they shouldn’t have to because non Christians rights appear more important! The Bible commands Christians to walk about the land spreading the Word! Telling the Good News!! So we do! Not our fault you’d rather not go to heaven!

We rest our case.

You’re not a particularly convincing representative. We want to be wherever you’re not.

Previously:

HB 728: the right wingnut cult of religious victimhood (April 3, 2019)

Same state, different worlds

28 Tuesday Dec 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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1920s advertising technique for our 21st Century.

A series of highway billboards in east central Missouri:

“Getting back together safely…”

“…starts with getting vaccinated…”

“…We’re stronger together…”

“…Schedule your vaccine at mostopscovid.com.”

We’re all in this together.

And, a few miles to the east, another series of billboards:

“Are all religions equal?”

“Investigate the founders.”

“Only Jesus lived a perfect life.”

So, apparently, we’re not in this together.

The Gulf of Mexico?

16 Thursday Dec 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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This morning along a highway in west central Missouri:

When I was a kid I got in trouble in religious school during a lesson on creation for answering, in all seriousness, “Hippopotamus” to “What had not yet been created?” In my defense it wasn’t on the list we had covered up to that point.

The beauty of social media

30 Wednesday Sep 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, social media

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Representative Mary Elizabeth Coleman (r) [2019 file photo].

On Twitter:

Last night:

MaryElizabethColeman @meaccoleman
To call yourself an Irish Catholic while actively working against the teachings of the Catholic Church is …transparent.
9:07 PM · Sep 29, 2020

Well, the use of “teachings” [plural] is quite transparent.

Kyle Garner (D) [2015 file photo].

One of many series of responses:

Kyle Garner @KyleGarnerMO
Republicans “Attacking a person’s faith is off limits!”

Also Republicans:
[….]
1/
12:35 PM · Sep 30, 2020

He continues:

So let’s talk about the teachings of the Catholic Church: What does the Church say about feeding the hungry? Caring for the sick? Welcoming the stranger? Worshipping gold? Protecting God’s creation Earth? Telling the truth? Paying fair share of taxes? 2/

Using the Lord’s name for your own purpose? Following false prophets? I could go on. Now let’s look at your leader vs the man you’re attacking. Biden is a lifelong Catholic & attends service regularly. Trump gassed Americans to hold a Bible upside down and feuded with the Pope 3/

In fact, the Pope, the leader of the Catholic Church you lie about following, denounced Trump as “not Christian” specifically for his violent cruelty to people. And that was before he set up concentration camps to sterilize women on our border. 4/

So spare us your pharisaical objections while you chant for Barabbas. You worship a man and elevate a Party that is the antithesis to Christianity and all Christ called us to be. end/

Wise men decided a long time ago: “…our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings…”

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