{"id":1345,"date":"2004-12-21T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/come_out_of_her_my_people\/"},"modified":"2004-12-21T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T18:56:13","slug":"come_out_of_her_my_people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/come_out_of_her_my_people\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Out of Her, My People"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is pretty funny. Via Digby<\/a>, here’s a web site<\/a> attempting to organize “Christian constitutionalists” (there’s a constitution in the Bible?) in moving to South Carolina “for the express purpose of re-establishing Godly, constitutional government.”
\nSimply put, things are becoming too dreadful in America for the exiting Christians. What with abortion, gay marriage, ten commandments monuments being stripped from our courthouses, and other “abominations,” such as the U.S. Supreme Court upholding McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform<\/a> (apparently the Bible also prohibits regulating political campaign contributions). So it’s off to South Carolina to rebuild America as God intended.
\nWhy South Carolina? Well, the site notes that:<\/p>\n

According to the Southern Focus Poll by the University of North Carolina, hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians already think the South would be better off as an independent nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey, there’s a novel idea! And this sovereign mindset will come in handy when the exiting Christians execute their game plan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

South Carolina will secure the rights of her citizens by interposing her authority under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The federal government operates outside its delegated powers in the areas of education, religion, abortion, domestic behavior, intrastate communication, intrastate commerce, taxation, welfare, healthcare, and a host of other subjects. Most powers concerning these topics are reserved to the States under the 10th Amendment. Therefore, we will see to it that South Carolina resumes her governmental authority in these matters and that federal mandates in violation of the 10th Amendment are ignored by the State.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny, I thought some of those things were included in the U.S. Constitution.
\nAt any rate, if you’re a resident of South Carolina, prepare to be saved by incoming political liberators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is pretty funny. Via Digby, here’s a web site attempting to organize “Christian constitutionalists” (there’s a constitution in the Bible?) in moving to South Carolina “for the express purpose of re-establishing Godly, constitutional government.” Simply put, things are becoming too dreadful in America for the exiting Christians. What with abortion, gay marriage, ten commandments […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}