Thou shalt have no other gods before Card Check
posted at 11:10 am on April 28, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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How desperate have the unions become to get Card Check passed in Congress? They’ve begun to start making religious arguments at their rallies. One attendee of a Sacramento, California union rally scanned one of their handouts, which has to be seen to be believed:
The unions aren’t taking any chances. They’re not sticking to the New Testament. In fact, they make reference to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the latter with a quote from Mohammed himself, complete with the traditional pbuh afterwards.
Unfortunately, they prove themselves just as adept at religious analysis as they do at politics in connection with Card Check. “Our true wealth is the good we do in this world” isn’t an argument for higher wages, but a call to disregard the material over the spiritual. Did they even read that before sticking it on a representation of the Dead Sea Scrolls — which, by the way, had nothing at all to do with Islam? Only the middle quote, James 5:4, has anything to do with wages and payment — and even that was a parable. Jesus was not the “first community organizer,” and He didn’t die on the cross in order to get management to talk to labor.
Note to Big Labor: The “oppressive decrees” had nothing to do with mandatory government arbitration or the lack thereof. Try studying the Bible to find out what this meant, instead of doing a poor job of quote harvesting. Having someone Google the Bible and the Koran is not the same as reading them, and certainly not the same as understanding them.
But more than just the nonsensical liturgy Big Labor tries to provide for its flock, the presentation is laughable. It uses overwrought language in a presentation right of a Children’s Bible. Do they really think this little of their intended audience? I’m surprised they didn’t include stick figures and little puzzles. Maybe they could have Card Check Sudoku, where none of the numbers add up.
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Christianists!
lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 11:13 AM
They know they can’t bleed GM and Chrysler much longer. They need to unionize the foreign car makers’ plants in the South, and card check is the only route.
Vashta.Nerada on April 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM
leave it to communists to get religious phrases totally ass backwards.
darwin on April 28, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Hysterical! I can’t help but think about the anti-religion fervor ginned up by the left during the Bush years. Heh. Guess it’s okay to be a hypocrite now. Heck, it’s not just okay, it’s now REQUIRED by the left.
BardMan on April 28, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Nah, because that would involve leaving some of the spaces on the puzzle blank. Card Check puzzles would have all the spaces pre-filled.
James on April 28, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Socially Engineered Imbeciles United
oldernwiser on April 28, 2009 at 11:21 AM
What they can’t unionize they will nationalize.
And then unionize.
Just A Grunt on April 28, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Unions in America were controlled by the Mafia for decades. Now they will be controlled by hussein. Didn’t he say his favorite movie was…”The Godfather?”
JoeySlippers on April 28, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Sorry guys, if you want $30 an hour to sweep the floor, two months per year of paid vaca and a 32 work week but get paid for forty hours, I’m not hiring and neither will anyone else.
The evidence is piling up day by day that the base constituencies of the demorat party are truly the dumbest people in America; sadly we are slowly being enslaved by them.
Bishop on April 28, 2009 at 11:22 AM
It does seem hysterical, but evidently someone thought this was a good enough idea to actually print it up and distribute. That’s rather scary, actually.
Bob's Kid on April 28, 2009 at 11:22 AM
What about all those atheist unionistas? Whatever shall they do now? Oh, the pain . . .
savvydude on April 28, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Does this quoting of religion finally make them domestic terrorists?
Tim Burton on April 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM
If card check is now religious; doesn’t that mean it cannot pass lest it violate separation of church and state?
lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Seriously. Can’t you use these quotes to argue against the oppressive nature of labor unions? I see a lot of double speak going on here.
Count to 10 on April 28, 2009 at 11:25 AM
I’d rather go out of business than succumb.
darwin on April 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM
In a free market, capitalist economy, money is the measure of the good we do in this world.
Count to 10 on April 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I’m not sure exactly what your point is. My point is the of the biggest supporters of unions is the Communist Party USA. Communists despise religion, have no need for religion and do everything in their power to minimize it and destroy it’s relevance in today’s society.
For communists to quote the bible is simply ridiculous and the quotes they used show they completely misunderstand their meaning.
darwin on April 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM
What’s next, renting a plane and dropping these flyers out of it to all the people? Maybe yesterdays “mistake” flyover was just a dry run for things to come.
Knucklehead on April 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM
LOL
“Covenant”
Man these libs are ass backwards
blatantblue on April 28, 2009 at 11:32 AM
LOL
And we were told Bush was out of touch with America.
Obarfy must be out of touch, forgetting NY’ers are still sensitive ’bout them..
oh…what were they? the uh, 9 something, tragedies? 9/11 man caused disasters? what was the name again?
blatantblue on April 28, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Unions have no shame. There’s a nasty fight going on here in Arizona between the UFCW and a grocery store chain called Bashas. UFCW desperately wants the Bashas’ employees in their union, but the Bashas’ employees keep voting no. (Bashas was named one of the “Best Places to Work” in AZ by The Business Journal for the last three years. They’re very good to their employees). Now the UFCW is sending out mailers to Arizonans, trying to smear Bashas and hurt its business by claiming it’s unclean, unsafe, overpriced, etc. Bashas is fighting back, but it’s disgraceful what they have to do just to protect their employees’ right to say ‘no’ to this unethical and greedy union.
AZCoyote on April 28, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Except obama PBUH….
sonofdy on April 28, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Maybe the employees can file suit against the union for threatening the state of their current employment. I’m sure there would be a lawyer or two willing to tackle it.
darwin on April 28, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Oh. My point was that I can interpret each line as an indictment of unionization with little difficulty, which seems related.
Count to 10 on April 28, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Ah the scrolls of the blind sheep as an addendum to the Idiots Bible. As the inferior shepherd’s (Obamessiah) decrees go so goes the sheep.
canditaylor68 on April 28, 2009 at 11:45 AM
cntrlfrk on April 28, 2009 at 11:46 AM
From Matthew 20, where Jesus’ parable condemns workers worrying about what others are being paid:
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
“About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.
“He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
“The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
~*~*
No union goon would endorse Jesus’ words here, the thrust of which is that it’s no one’s business what an employer does with his money with regard to paying workers.
Akzed on April 28, 2009 at 11:52 AM
For those who’s personal benefit is in unions aren’t everything, unions are the only thing.
No matter who pays the price, for their benefit.
Speakup on April 28, 2009 at 11:56 AM
I hear the Goracle is a jealous “god”.
steveegg on April 28, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Democratic philosophy is the philosopy of sloth and mediocrity. Nothing in this life is perfect, but personal freedom and free markets are far and away the best way to go.
I think the Democratic version of the Parable of the Talents would be for the two who received five and two talents, not to use those talents to create more, but to simply turn some portion of their talents over to the moron who merely buried his one talent. Indeed, doesn’t that sound exactly like what’s going on in this country under Obama?
BuckeyeSam on April 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM
I want a private ballot, just like I get in normal elections.
I see the various scripture quotes as being in complete concert with my desires.
unclesmrgol on April 28, 2009 at 12:03 PM
I always have to chuckle when non-believers try to quote scripture in order to “convince” believers of one thing or another.
They inevitably pull the quotes out of context and misunderstand everything they are saying.
Kind of like when they pull out the old “judge not” without any idea of what that scripture was actually trying to say.
Religious_Zealot on April 28, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Going to fun to watch Specter and his shifting fortunes on this. Who would vote for a turncoat.
Specter is all about specter, never about principle.
tarpon on April 28, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Were I running a large business and ‘card check’ came in; if the union thugs then tried to pull a fast one at my company and go union, I’d call all the workers together and say “Congratulations, you are now union workers. Unfortunately, this plant is closed. Have a nice day.”
GarandFan on April 28, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Hell, we’re all gonna be working for the govmint after obama takes over all business in this country
Kini on April 28, 2009 at 12:51 PM
I have a friend that runs his own buisness, and had a meeting with his people. He laid out how much money the company takes in. The people gasped because they make meager wages. Then he laid out the costs (itemized) from materials, utilities, and salaries, and when the BIG money the buisness gorssed was shrunk down to a little over 200K profit, the crowd all sighed. One of them asked what the owner made as a salary, he told them he pays himself 50K a year IF the net profit is @ or about 200K and his wife works for free in billing. The crowd of all employess sat silent.
Now, with this knowledge, he then started in explaining that if a union wants to organise and force him to pay more in salaries and hourly, that the buisness will fail and he’d have to lay people off or close its doors. This company and its employees are a very close nit group, and the owner is very active in their personal lives with when someone ends up in the hospital or has a wreck or personal crisises, Bob is there for them, so they knew he was telling them the straight deal.
About a month later, a Union representative tried to start lobbying the employees (at the street corner leading to the buisness) to petition Bob for a meeting so they could explain the Union to the employees and ask them to go vote on bringing in the Union.
They threw rocks at the union rep and chased him down the street.
All it takes though is one employee to bring in the union rep though, and the camels nose is in the tent.
44Magnum on April 28, 2009 at 1:24 PM
There you go, Benito, FIFY.
Mussolini would be so proud.
iurockhead on April 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Bishop on April 28, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Two things I had to remember growing up: vote Democrat, pay your union dues. They went hand in hand.
Watched the unions take my little hometown of 75,000 and reduce it to less than 30,000 inside three years because the major employer in town could not afford their demands and shut down their operations.
I hate unions.
koz on April 28, 2009 at 2:29 PM
It’s interesting that SEIU wants to quote the Bible. There’s a passage in Deut. that has God commanding His people “From a thing of falsehood, distance yourself”, yet SEIU executives knew that Gov. Blogo was corrupt, even quasi-negotiated with him over Obama’s US Senate seat, yet never informed law enforcement.
rokemronnie on April 28, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Truly, the left has no religion when they abuse it.
Godless. Absolutely godless.
Every. Last. One.
madmonkphotog on April 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM
So, following the Left’s “logic”, doesn’t this mean that Card Check [i][b]must[/b][/i] not be allowed, because passing it would be a violation of the Establishment Clause?
Surely, showing this to the ACLU would be productive, as they are always eager to defend Freedom From Religion.
malclave on April 28, 2009 at 4:45 PM
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