{"id":2275,"date":"2017-01-11T06:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T11:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisaj.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2017-01-11T06:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T11:47:04","slug":"and-just-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"And just like that…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m concerned about Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n

Not that there weren’t things to be concerned about before.\u00a0 In fact for the majority of his confirmation hearing he answered how I expected him to answer.\u00a0 Yes I’ll uphold the law.\u00a0 If states laws conflict with Federal laws something needs to change.\u00a0 The AG will uphold Federal laws.\u00a0 Back peddle away from any race questions or questions about his past. Acknowledged that he would uphold laws that he doesn’t agree with as is the responsibility of the AG\u00a0(Roe vs. Wade).<\/p>\n

And then: <\/a><\/p>\n

Sen. Whitehouse: “And a secular person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is religious, correct?”<\/p>\n

Sen. Sessions: “Well, I’m not sure.”<\/p>\n

Sessions went on to say “We’re going to treat anybody with different views fairly and objectively” but that doesn’t negate his previous comment.<\/p>\n

As an atheist this really concerns me.\u00a0 Change the words secular and religious around, or to different religions.<\/p>\n

“And a Christian <\/strong>person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Muslim<\/strong>, correct?”<\/p>\n

“Well, I’m not sure.”<\/p>\n

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“And a Muslim<\/strong> person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Christian<\/strong>, correct?”<\/p>\n

“Well, I’m not sure.”<\/p>\n

————<\/p>\n

“And a Jewish <\/strong>person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Christian<\/strong>, correct?”<\/p>\n

“Well, I’m not sure.”<\/p>\n

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“And a\u00a0Buddhist Monk<\/strong>\u00a0has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Christian<\/strong>, correct?”<\/p>\n

“Well, I’m not sure.”<\/p>\n

————<\/p>\n

“And a Hindu\u00a0<\/strong>has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Christian<\/strong>, correct?”<\/p>\n

“Well, I’m not sure.”<\/p>\n

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Instant Outrage for any of these.\u00a0 At least their should be.<\/p>\n

Part of Congressional Hearings is that we should take these people spoken at their word.\u00a0 What they say is what they believe to be the truth.\u00a0 So we should believe Senator Sessions when he says he’s not sure a secular person can understand the truth like a religious person, but he’s sure gonna try hard to believe them anyways.\u00a0 It is particularly worrying when you discover that in 2001 Senator Session rebuked Senator Leahy for swearing in a witness without requiring them to use the phrase “So help me God.”\u00a0<\/a> When questioned on it Senator Sessions said “95% of people believe in God.”\u00a0 Even if that is true, swearing on the Bible isn’t a constitutional mandate.<\/p>\n

I want to take people on their word.\u00a0 That they will say what they believe.\u00a0 However, that doesn’t seem to be the outlook of this administration.\u00a0 Kelly Anne Conway admitted that herself this weekend<\/a>. We need to look at people’s hearts, not the words that come out of their mouth.\u00a0 Just ignore those please.<\/p>\n

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I’m concerned about Jeff Sessions. Not that there weren’t things to be concerned about before.\u00a0 In fact for the majority of his confirmation hearing he answered how I expected him to answer.\u00a0 Yes I’ll uphold the law.\u00a0 If states laws conflict with Federal laws something needs to change.\u00a0 The AG will uphold Federal laws.\u00a0 Back…Continue reading And just like that…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[689,4,227],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily_life","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-meisaj","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DKK0-AH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}