Sunday, April 7, 2013

Conservative Voters would gut First Amendment. They're the real Americans.

We know there’s a strong Republican base of voters who are unswayed by anything and everything that that conflicts with their strong belief system. Even the constitution.

For these pocket constitutionalist's  their support only goes as far as their inability to make excuses to get around the details of our founding document.

The First Amendment falls short for almost all of them, when you consider the percentage of Americans who would establish a national religion:
Huffington Post: Although the North Carolina House of Representatives killed a bill Thursday that would have paved the way for establishing an official state religion, a new national HuffPost/YouGov poll finds widespread support for doing so. The new survey finds:
34 percent of adults would favor establishing Christianity as the official state religion in their own state, while 47 percent would oppose doing so.

32 percent said that they would favor a constitutional amendment making Christianity the official religion of the United States, with 52 percent saying they were opposed.
Gee, I wonder what percentage of Americans are Republican? 

In a very related development:
A conservative Christian who helped to lead President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative but then criticized the effort has died. David Kuo was 44 when he died Friday … he had suffered from brain cancer for the last decade.

Kuo left the White House in 2003. In a book he described the Bush White House as having sought political gain through the manipulation of religious faith and called the initiative a "sad charade." 
Kuo had been a policy adviser to Republican Sen. John Ashcroft and a speechwriter for conservative Republicans Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson and for Republican Sen. Bob Dole. He joined the Bush administration in 2001 as deputy of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

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