Appeals Court Slaps Down Kentucky Freakazoids Again

America is not quite yet the Talibantastic christianist nightmare the freakazoids are trying to establish. But the Dominionis fuckers do remind me of a toddler who keeps repeating the same misbehavior in hopes a parent will finally give up trying to stop it. And this time it might work, thanks to Bush Supreme Court appointee Freakazoid Justice Sam Alito.

From the Courier:

Setting up a potential rematch before the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal appeals court panel has once again barred displays including the Ten Commandments from two southeastern Kentucky courthouses.

The panel said officials for McCreary and Pulaski counties have tried a series of actions to make it appear they have secular, constitutional motives for the displays, but nothing has changed evidence of their "religious purpose," which has been recognized by a decade's worth of rulings by every level of federal court.

"The counties in this case have still not presented a valid secular purpose," said the majority in a 2-1 ruling by a panel of judges on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The ruling comes five years after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed an earlier ruling from the 6th Circuit, which itself upheld a U.S. District Court temporary injunction barring the displays in the courthouses of McCreary and Pulaski counties.

SNIP

But one of those in the five-justice majority was the since-retired Sandra Day O'Connor, who was replaced by Samuel Alito. Alito signaled his willingness to accept religious symbols on public lands by joining in a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year upholding the establishment of a memorial cross on public land in the Mohave Desert.

When I write that the Supreme Court needs new justices far more liberal than the centrists Obama is appointing, this is what I mean.