a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired.

[elleng]

(Bowers, AZ house speaker)

[Coventina]

1. ??????

[elleng]

2. AZ house speaker said this

[snowybirdie]

4. Its likely

He's a Morman.

[Sympthsical]

5. I don't see the problem. We have photographic evidence.

[Coventina]

8. What the actual fuck is that????

[Celerity]

24. here is the more accurate version

The Age of Trump: One Nation Under Cthulhu

[TwilightZone]

11. Ah, Jon McNaughton.

Tea Party hack extraordinaire.

[Coventina]

16. I looked at his website. I've never seen such offensive dreck in my life

in one place!

[TwilightZone]

18. New York Magazine described it as...

"drop-dead obvious in message" and "visually dead as a doornail"

That pretty much sums it up.

It was so bad that BYU (McNaughton's alma mater) stopped selling it after one of their own art professors called it a propaganda piece of the Tea Party.

[Coventina]

19. Thomas Kincaid is a master of subtlety and bold experimentation in comparison.

And here I thought Kincaid was rock bottom.

[TwilightZone]

21. Even Kincaid's most "patriotic" stuff looks pretty restrained...

compare to McNaughton.

[TwilightZone]

26. He has a new one.

You'll love this!

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16825639

[HardPort]

15. Your forgot the NSFW tag on that monstrosity.

Now where'd I put my eye bleach ...?

[Lars39]

6. Whatever it takes to snag some evangelicals

to leave Bowers alone, and to counter the brainwashing.

[Ocelot II]

7. I don't think the guys who wrote it thought that,

since they fought tooth and nail for months over what was supposed to be in it, but if believing that helped Bowers stick to his guns, fine.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. He's a Mormon and this is actually a tenet of their faith.

[Coventina]

10. Careful, you can get posts hidden for anti-Mormon "bigotry".

[Ocelot II]

12. Turns out he's a professional artist, and a pretty good one.

https://eddiebashacollection.com/collection/russell-bowers
https://foursquareart.com/artists/russell-bowers/

[markie]

13. very cool!

good for him

[milestogo]

14. Well what that means today is that he took his oath of office seriously.

And that's a good thing.

[HardPort]

17. Of course, it was also an LDS tenet to deny the priesthood to Black members until recently... (1978)

So why wouldn't god also "inspire" the 3/5ths clause, right?

[panader0]

20. That statement stuck in my craw as well.

I thought he got choked up about then. But the Constitution was written by men, just like the Bible...Remember that separation of church and state thing?

[pandr32]

22. I found that disturbing

[RussBLib]

23. he takes his faith sincerely

.... unlike most Republicans.

I appreciate that, even as an atheist.

[AntiFascist]

25. Remember when The Enlightenment used to be a big deal?

The Colony of Georgia was actually founded on Enlightenment principles and was supposed to be free of slavery.

[TwilightZone]

27. It didn't last long.

Almost immediately, people who moved there from other colonies, like SC, disregarded the slavery prohibition. By the 1750s, slavery was pretty prevalent.

[AntiFascist]

28. I don't see how in HELL all of the original constitution could be divinely inspired...

when Article 1 Section 2 declared that for purposes of representation in Congress, enslaved blacks in a state would be counted as three-fifths of the number of white inhabitants of that state.

Of course there are probably some neanderthals who disagree.

[TwilightZone]

29. They really don't care about the Constitution.

It's just a tool to show how "patriotic" they are. They really couldn't care less as to the content, particularly anything that interferes in their agenda.