Supreme Court rules against FFRF suit over faith-based initiatives

The Supremes decided 5-4 that taxpayers have no standing to sue over the faith-based initiatives program which takes their money and gives it to religious organizations, in clear violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution. You can read the details in the Washington Post.

What is especially galling about this decision in favor of the Bush Administration's ongoing War Against the Constitution is that Bush himself has, on many occasions, used 'the taxpayers' as an excuse for his obstruction of embryonic stem-cell research. His reasoning is that many Americans are opposed to the destruction of embryos, so using their money to do research on these embryos is unfair. Apparently in Bush's vision of America, taxpayers' opinions only count if they agree with his own.

The savvy reader might also note that the opposition of many taxpayers to the war in Iraq doesn't seem to be slowing the rate at which billions of dollars, not to mention thousands of American men and women in uniform, are being poured onto that fire.