1st Amendment Activist Assaulted at Hawaii Capitol

Activist supporting separation of Church and State, as well as the videographer, are assaulted at Hawaii State Capitol.

According to Youtuber MitchKahle (http://www.youtube.com/user/MitchKahle):
"On April 29, 2010, activists Mitch Kahle and Kevin Hughes were assaulted by Ben Villaflor, the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms, and State Sheriff's Deputies, for objecting to unconstitutional Christian prayers used to begin each session of the Hawaii State Legislature. Hughes was injured in the attack and was taken to the hospital for x-rays and treatment. Kahle was arrested and prosecuted, but was ultimately vindicated when Judge Leslie Hayashi found Kahle "NOT GUILTY" and ruled that: "The Senate's [Christian] prayers violate the constitutional separation of church and state." More to come . . ."

Category:

Education

Tags:

• atheism
• religion
• seperation
• church
• state
• hawaii
• activism

[YashinNashi]

@TruthisNatureisGod

This is actually getting a little annoying now, so I think I'm done after this. It is not "that a man was praying to the "christian" god.", people did not decide to pray at a state meeting. It was a man giving a prayer in an official capacity on behalf of the state. The prayer was a part of the meeting. The state's business, their legal proceedings, included a prayer. It was an official state prayer. The state was recognizing a religion as a part of their legal proceedings.

[ozzfest72]

The next religious moron that comes to my door or gets in my face will be face down in the dirt! Its hard to fathom that it is the year 2011 and crazy low IQ magical thinking still exist in society! A person is intelligent but people in general are total complete idiots. I feel like I am in the "Twilight Zone"! A person that is unable to use the power of observation and the abilty to reason is 100% INSANE PERIOD

[jackiejackie44]

@ozzfest72 Well said mate. If you try and reason with fundies they get angry and violent because their intelligence is insulted, but they'd rather punch on, than reason, with well thought out arguments which we all know leads them to realise they are wrong. At the end of the argument they'll finish it with the following sentence, "I have faith. That's why." So backwards it's ridiculous. What about "Faith" in Unicorns, Santa, sober Irishmen . . smart fundamentalists. Exasperating.

[lonnyonline]

@gethsoftware China will up hold your law of church and state.

[gethsoftware]

@HomeMovieMaker im afraid you are wrong. the founding fathers where mostly deists, and some of them where atheists. they allso opposed religion very openly. they allso statet and direct quote"the constitution and goverment of United states of america is no way based on christian religion" unquote. the bible only supports monarcy, and it even says that monarcs are chosen by god. this is direct opposion of the idea that is "power to the people" 

[gethsoftware]

@HomeMovieMaker naah. if i want goverment run buy atheist, i move to shouth korea, or japan or any of the scandinavic countries. you know, those countries with the best quality of life, and lowest crimerate.

[gethsoftware]

@lonnyonline the seperation is in constitution. but it seemes like religius only uphold laws when they please them. 

[lonnyonline]

"One Nation Under God." " In God We Trust" "...laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them,..." "...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights..." There is even a ten commandments on the door of the Supreme Court. The US GOV hires Pastors for US Military and even builds churches for service members. I am sure I can find more connections with the State and Church. So where is the separation? You could always move to China they don't like Jesus.

[lc237]

Mitch and Kevin - Awesome!