I was going to pen something a little more serious concerning Zionism today, and I actually began a piece which I will eventually finish, but I’m in a different mood today and I really don’t want to boor you too much with serious blather.That doesn’t mean I won’t write something, like now where, as I was writing the other, I thought, How ridiculous is all of this? Well, it’s really ridiculous for someone like me, a non-believer and one that could give a flip whether the State of Israel exists or not. The question arises, in the last half century, in relation to the United States and the Middle East, what would be different without an Israeli state?

mOf all the recent news, one story that has piqued my interest is that of Carrie Prejean Boller. Who’s that you ask? She’s a member(well, depending on a future outcome) of President Trumps Religious Liberty Commission who was “fired” from the commission by chairman and Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick for, well, supposed antisemitic statements. What was it Ms. Boller said that prompted this disagreeable charge? She simply questioned whether or not anti-Zionism is antisemitism. She said that as a Catholic, her faith did not require her to support Zionism. Not being Catholic, I have no idea what the Catholic church says about Zionism and frankly, I don’t care. I don’t want to turn this into an argument for or against Zionism, but instead, what constitutes religious freedom. One would think, however, that a commission on “religious liberty” would be agreeable to questions concerning anything that has to do with any religion. I guess not.