Just Run The Damn City, Mayor
Okay, I live in a little town between Sugar Land and Rosenberg. Our geographic boundaries touch on each side.
You’d think I would be most embarrassed by Sugar Land, you know, home to Tom DeLay and all.
But, nooooo.
The Mayor of Rosenberg has become a preacher on the city dime.
Local newspaper, click the little one to get the big one.
It’s not God, she’s talking about, it’s Christianity.
Okay, here’s the Prayer Challenge. I couldn’t get it all in because it goes from almost the top all the way to the bottom. But you can get the jest.
Now here’s the goofy part. I live smack dab in the middle of the most diverse county in America, and I can prove it.
I swear that the Steeple People are becoming more irritating than fruit flies.
You’d think that a mayor could find something to do other than sanctimoniously preach at people who work for the city and don’t make enough money to put up with this crap.
Get off your high horse, Mayor. I can see right up your skirt.
I do speak Christian, as I’ve been one most of my life…but I can’t read: “…having our being in tune with the wise broadcasts of heaven,” or “…downloads of the Holy Spirit,” without getting the giggles.
1I know some of us are religious, so I’m suppressing my first five or six reactions. And I suppose she’s a nice person in real life. She’s just flat-out clueless that there are other nice people who aren’t like her, and she’s real shaky on the parts of the Constitution about no established religion and no religious test for public office.
Somehow reminds me of a friend’s story from WWII. He said that the military could use anybody– a thief, a murderer, a liar– they could all be made use of in some way, except one: the well-meaning idiot. “Just take him out and shoot him before he gets everybody killed.”
2The voters have just got to get better at picking. This is dreadful and I don’t even live close to Rosenberg!
3Cindy and old Roy Moore need to be taken to a tattoo parlor to have the words “separation of church and state” hammered into their foreheads.
4I don’t live in Rosenberg, but PLEASE someone who does needs to contact the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). They will put a stop to this unconstitutional, illegal crap very quickly. If this horrible woman wants to preach the Christian gospel, she needs to get a church. Otherwise STFU.
I see a lawsuit coming. I hope the people of Rosenberg are prepared to pay and pay and pay.
5And she did this on city time?
6Did she use city resources?
This is a blatant abuse of her office.
Assembly of Gawd?! Who could have known?
ttp://penews.org/news/mayor-mcconathy
“It is important to lead by example,” she says. “When it is my turn to pray, people often ask why I end it in Jesus’ name. They remind me there are many religions represented in our area. I appreciate that, but at the same time I end the prayer with Jesus’ name because that is what I believe.””
7And in response to the, ahem, mayor I’d like to offer a U.S. Constitution Challenge. Each week we will cover a section of that document made for us all by our blessed Founding Fathers. My hope is it will inspire you to pull your head out of your butt and understand you are the leader of a government not the leader of a church. Can I have an Amen!
8Mayor McConathy sez
“It is important to lead by example,” she says. “When it is my turn to pray, people often ask why I end it in Jesus’ name. They remind me there are many religions represented in our area. I appreciate that,”
I call BS on the appreciating the many religions part. Having been exposed to what we call godders (which specifically refers to the AOG flavor) I haven’t noticed much tolerance or appreciation for any other faiths or beliefs to offset their well known intolerance and ignorance for documents such as the US Constitution.
9If she’s still in office next year, I’d suggest she ups the ante and challenges city workers to a Prayer Triathlon.
10Adding to what Mark J said, all it will take to establish grounds for a suit by a city employee is to be asked by a coworker – or especially a superior with employment authority like the mayor or a city council member – whether or not the employee will “respond” to the challenge. That would be sufficient to establish a religious test and a threat of intimidation and a civil rights violation. State courts won’t help; this needs to go to federal EEOC.
11Mark J & UmptyDump, beyond the lawsuits, we need these Steeple St00pid people to pay court costs and all associated fines and awards. Enough of them being dumb on the taxpayers’ dimes. Maybe if they start paying for their st00pid, they’ll start thinking, or at least slow down on their st00pid.
12OK, so she’s a prayer warrior. La de frickin’ da! Now, if only she can prove that she is literate. Then point her to where it says in the bible to pray by yourownself in private. Otherwise, it is just pure and simple wackdoodle showboating! Shame on her!
13If I lived in Fort Bend County, I would call for an audit of the county’s books. You can’t be too careful.
14PLEASE, will someone in Rosenberg get in touch with Americans United for Separation of Church and State? That’s http://www.au.org. It’s a great organization, with lawyers who are ready, willing, and able to take on just this kind of offensive nonsense.
15Please, somebody – call the ACLU. That’s where the legal challenge will happen.
16PKM, unfortunately laws restrict liability of government officials engaged in their official duties except for criminal activities. Taxpayers end up paying the fines and legal bills. Sad. But the taxpayers made a decision to elect people who care more about spending money religious proselytizing instead of education for their children or infrastructure improvements for their city/county/municipality.
17Mark J, understood, but what this loon and others like her do is criminal, when they use taxpayer time for their own special snowflake purposes. I’d start with misappropriation of government funds, then work up a few charges on any harassment she does of employees. More people need to start attending city council meetings, when there’s a vote up for settling certain lawsuits. And not only no, but hell no should taxpayer funded insurance policies be used, when the ‘acts’ of these officials is not consistent with their duties.
18Mark J reminds me that it’s the kids who suffer– from the tax drain of fighting this sort of nonsense, and also from the inevitably-associated ignorance of science they’ll be handed in the local schools.
19I used to collaborate with an Ass of God preacher. He was a nice guy, not pushy or domineering. On the other hand, the last time I showed my face in an Ass of God church, they dedicated a baby. (They don’t baptize babies.) It was really nice – until the rev began ranting about marriage only for opposite genders. What that had to do with dedicating a baby, I have no idea because I left in mid rant. Haven’t been back to an Ass Church since.
20This woman is dumb like a fox. She knows exactly what she is doing and she is daring anyone to stop her. Then she can play the War on Christians card. Mike Hucklebeetle and Ted Screws will fly to her aid. She’ll be famous like Kim Davis. Yippee!
21ACLU get in there.
Seriously, these people have gotten on my last nerve. I may have to eventually resort to physical violence.
Well, no, not that. But I can vouch that proselytizers will leave your doorstep (quickly) when you start chanting:
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
Maybe some of the believers in the Separation of Church and State should pray THAT loudly just to freak out Mayor Cynthia… (She probably doesn’t speak Orc.)
22What Rhea said pretty much covers it. Has Mayor Cynthia read the US Constitution through Article 6? Or is she just winging it?
23I wonder if the recipients get to click “Reply” and tout their own beliefs to her.
24People wouldn’t know she ends her prayer in jesus name if she did as her lawd and saviour told her and go pray in her closet so only she and her invisible buddy are subjected to her non-sense.
Apparently some religiousy people don’t believe what their religiousy gods tell them.
25If a government has to be propped up by religion, or a religion has to be propped up by government it doesn’t speak well of either.
26This — this right here [well, OK this AND the Ku Klux Klan] — is why I no longer identify as Christian. I do still try to practice the principles it used to teach [and yes, it’s still hard work] but the stuff she is doing is easy. It’s easy to say, “Lookee me! Look how holy I am! And nobody else is as good as MEEEEE!”
Obviously, one of the hardest parts of that teaching she wants to shove down everyone else’s throat is contained in Matthew 6:6. How about that for a second tattoo, Polite Kool Marxist? Write it upside down on her chest so she can be reminded, every time she bows her head, to leave other people out of it.
27To LynnN:
Your suggestion does work miracles.
Years ago, I got tired of the Jehovah’s Witnesses constantly knocking on my door. So one day, I invited one lady in. I sweetly told her, “I’ll listen to your schpiel if you’ll listen to mine.” Amazingly, she agreed.
So I listened while she told me all about the End Times and the Pearly Gates. Then I told her all about reincarnation and infant souls and baby souls and young souls and mature souls and old souls. And went on into transcendental and infinite souls. I referenced books. I dragged on and on and on and on and on.
The JW’s never knocked on my door again.
28Is it just me….. or does anybody else think…. that a lot more might be accomplished for the citizens of Ft. Bend County…. if more time was spent by county employees…… doing actual work…… rather than reading Bible verses….. and spending time in “prayer”?
Just sayin’
29two crows, certainly! Tattoo old Cindy with Matthew 6:6. Maybe produce a template to be used on all the offenders.
30Just a thought. The city of Rosenberg may be much better off if this mayor is running a prayer meetin’ instead of running the city.
31I dunno. I think you may be mistaken about your county. I believe Queens County, NYC, is the nation’s most ethnically diverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens Scroll down to Ethnic Groups. Let me know what you think.
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