The Iraqi Constitution

Under the new Iraqi Constitution, in a point (unlike some others) that doesn't bother the Bushies one bit, Iraqi women will become the low-value chattel they are in most Arab/Islamic nations.

Iraq, to my knowledge, is the only nation of its type that has permitted women far more freedom to be close to, if not fully on par with, males. This was because it was a secular nation.

While granted, I'm not very big on religious zealots of any flavor, I find it sadly hysterical that our government, so busy embracing rightest Christian rhetoric and so supportive of Israeli's move toward a near total theocracy, is so upset with Iraq making its constitutional fall far more in line with an Islamic nation.

Sadly, among the world's religions today, I think it would be nearly impossible to have a progressive nation that is NOT secular at its root. Again, that's not to deny the belief in and devotion to a god of whatever name but the government itself has to beyond the reach of religion. This is why the US has been going so horribly backwards for several years,

Now, we're ready to pretend the Scopes trial never happened, that women didn't get the vote, that Roe vs Wade does not exist in the law books, and that the recall of civil rights (in the service of a "greater good") is just a great idea. And while we're at it, we're eager to end the American public school system because for that to operate, it also must be secular.