When All Else Fails, Try Sacrelig?
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by adminThere’s plenty of big news today about the Employee Free Choice Act, but we wanted to make sure you were aware of the latest gambit by organized labor to pass its card check bill — religious pandering without religious knowledge. Hot Air reports on a hand-out at pro-EFCA rallies that suggests God is on the side of killing secret ballots the bill:
The unions aren’t taking any chances. They’re not sticking to the New Testament. In fact, they make reference to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the latter with a quote from Mohammed himself, complete with the traditional pbuh afterwards.
Unfortunately, they prove themselves just as adept at religious analysis as they do at politics in connection with Card Check. “Our true wealth is the good we do in this world” isn’t an argument for higher wages, but a call to disregard the material over the spiritual. Did they even read that before sticking it on a representation of the Dead Sea Scrolls — which, by the way, had nothing at all to do with Islam? Only the middle quote, James 5:4, has anything to do with wages and payment — and even that was a parable. Jesus was not the “first community organizer,” and He didn’t die on the cross in order to get management to talk to labor.
Note to Big Labor: The “oppressive decrees” had nothing to do with mandatory government arbitration or the lack thereof. Try studying the Bible to find out what this meant, instead of doing a poor job of quote harvesting. Having someone Google the Bible and the Koran is not the same as reading them, and certainly not the same as understanding them.
Faith is an awfully important thing to an awfully big number of people. Using it this cheaply will not win cynics any points.
Tags: Religious Pandering
