Posted on 07/21/2014 10:07:34 PM PDT by Huntress
In response to the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, atheists are sitting around knitting. And in this time of national crisis, they are knitting bricks.
Worried about the supposedly crumbling wall of separation between church and state, the Secular Coalition for America (SCA) launched a “Knit a Brick” campaign to “harness outrage” at the ruling. The group will send yarn bricks to the Supreme Court, Congress, or White House staffers. Targets will be selected based on the number of bricks the Coalition’s high command receives by August 5, according to Religionnews.com. If organizers collect 400 bricks, they will send them to the Supreme Court. Eight hundred bricks will merit a bulk delivery to Congress. But the ultimate goal is 1,200, enough knitted bricks to deliver to President Barack Obama.
But first, there’s work ahead for Americans who want to keep off their bodies all the laws except the ones forcing other Americans pay for their abortion pills. All those bricks must be hand-knitted and assembled into a symbolic wall. The bricks should be six inches by three inches. If a participant doesn’t knit or crochet, he or she can sponsor a brick so someone else can knit it.
The original deadline was July 18, but it was extended to August 5 because of “overwhelming support.” In a July 18 tweet, SCA president Amanda Metskas indicated that at that time, the group was only a bit more than halfway to its 400-brick minimum goal.
Yay! #KnitABrick in @washingtonpost! We have 200+ bricks now! Sponsor or knit to take @seculardotorg over the top! http://t.co/NCmjBNwlxG — Amanda K. Metskas (@metskas) July 18, 2014
Atheists aren’t the only ones donating bricks to this campaign. Austin Cooper, the coalition’s director of operations, told the Washington Post that members of her traditional Catholic family demonstrated their commitment to secularism by making 19 bricks for the cause.
Mike Dwyer on Twitter clung to the patriarchal convention that a brick exists in three rather than two dimensions:
If a “brick” is 3×6 and completely flat, that’s not a brick; it’s a plate. 1200 plates won’t make an effective wall. #KnitABrick — Mike Dwyer (@solarguy17) July 18, 2014
Thomas Jefferson coined the term “wall of separation” between church and state in his letter to the Danbury Baptist association.
“Legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions,” wrote the author of the Declaration of Independence and our third president. Jefferson noted that keeping government from infringing on religious freedom preserves the “rights of conscience.” The wall of separation, as described by the originator of the term, prevents government from violating the consciences of people who have religious objections to government policy. Jefferson called religious freedom a natural right and declared himself “convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.” The Hobby Lobby ruling was not about forcing others to obey one’s religious mandates; it was about prohibiting government from forcing religious people to obey mandates that violate their consciences.
The Secular Coalition should toss the bricks and start knitting a big scarf long enough to span the distance between the Affordable Care Act and the right to free exercise of religion.
— Celina Durgin is a Franklin Center intern at National Review Online.
Nazis are such sore losers. They lose a small one in the Supreme Court and they start sh*tting bricks.
These people are insane.
If they are all for birth control, I suggest that they try having sex with the lights on. After seeing Liberals like Lena Dunham I find it hard to believe that the average person could complete an act when forced to see what they are doing.
Good news - Hobby Lobby has a beautiful selection of yarns for this project!
Okay, that made me laugh.
I think they should knit themselves some new knickers.
Knit a colossal crying towel and cry me a river.
Wonderful! “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Lenin. Let them keep knitting a covering for their graves—at least that keeps them occupied.
Writer Celina and her naughty sense of humor, she had me thinking they were excreting bricks.
Without their empty symbolic gestures, the Left wouldn’t be able to communicate at all.
Glad I could help
Most atheist are very normal people who could not give a $hit about what the radical atheist think.
they’re all up in arms because they can’t force someone else to pay for them to kill their kids
yea... they’re mental stable...
Fine by me. And your point is....?
It is never MOST people who are the problem. It is always the idiot cranks who bring about problems. Most people regardless of religious affiliation or none at all , like Christmas. It is the spoiled bed wetters that complain that everyone used to tell to stfu. Today they are a ‘protected class’
How does a private business refusing to pay for abortions violate separation of Church and State?
My point is most atheist are very normal people who could not give a $hit about what the radical atheist think.
Is it OK to crochet??
Only the liberal men can crochet - it is too delicate for the women.
We don’t need indoctrination
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Leftists, leave us kids alone...
...HEY! LEFTISTS! LEAVE US KIDS ALONE!
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall...
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall.
—”sorry, not sorry” to Roger Waters
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