Authored by Rabbi Michael Barclay via American Greatness,
On April 8, the California Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement voted 19–0 to adopt AB2017, followed on April 22 by the California Assembly Committee on Appropriations, which voted 7–0 to adopt the bill. And with those votes, all that is left for this to become California law is the passing of it by the State Assembly and Senate and approval by the governor.
And with it, the state of California will no longer exist as we know it, but will become the Islamic Republic of California.
Introduced by California Assemblyman Matt Haney(D-San Francisco 17th District)at thebehest of CAIR, the bill seeks toofficially recognize the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as California state holidays.
There are no holidays from other religions that are recognized as state holidays in California.
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and Epiphany are all extremely important holidays in Judaism and Christianity.
But none of them are recognized as California state holidays.
But according to Haney and the California legislature, apparently, Islamic holidays are much more important to the state than either Judaism or Christianity.
This bill is clearly unconstitutional, as it is in direct contradiction to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment:“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . .”
By placing two Islamic holidays as official state holidays, they are respecting the establishment of a specific religion. But the problem is greater than just their violation of the Constitution in attempting to pass this bill.
Source: ZeroHedge News
