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Lauren Boebert Just Came Out as ANTI U.S. CONSTITUTION!!! (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP
She's about a half a pair of tweezers... dchill Jun 2022 #1
Given time this SC will agree with her. spike jones Jun 2022 #2
Wake me up when an atheist is elected president Effete Snob Jun 2022 #3
Uhhh, which Church?! AllTooEasy Jun 2022 #4
The Lord's prayer in schools... keithbvadu2 Jun 2022 #7
She is a Fascist who doesn't know Justice matters. Jun 2022 #5
Sometimes Amendments are needed - in fact, the separation of church & state is in one. soldierant Jun 2022 #6
Roger Williams plimsoll Jun 2022 #8

dchill

(38,481 posts)
1. She's about a half a pair of tweezers...
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 08:25 PM
Jun 2022

...but she's no more anti-Constitution than Clarence or Alito. Or the Handmaid's Tail.

 

Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)
3. Wake me up when an atheist is elected president
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 08:34 PM
Jun 2022

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2008/11/04/religion-and-politics-08-barack-obama/


In his 2007 address at the United Church of Christ General Synod, Obama gave an overview of how religion has been a part of American political history, reminding the audience that “men and women of faith waded into the battles over prison reform and temperance, public education and women’s rights — and above all, abolition.”

So doing the Lord’s work,” Obama added later in the speech, “is a thread that’s run through our politics since the very beginning. And it puts the lie to the notion that the separation of church and state in America means faith should have no role in public life. Imagine [President] Lincoln’s Second Inaugural [Address] without its reference to ‘the judgments of the Lord.’ Or [Martin Luther] King’s ‘I Have a Dream‘ speech without its reference to ‘all of God’s children.’ Or President Kennedy’s Inaugural [Address] without the words, ‘here on Earth, God’s work must truly be our own.’ At each of these junctures, by summoning a higher truth and embracing a universal faith, our leaders inspired ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things.“

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Boebert’s a moron, but this “faith guides my politics” thing is universal in American politics.

AllTooEasy

(1,260 posts)
4. Uhhh, which Church?!
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 08:36 PM
Jun 2022

Which Christian prayer in public schools? Which interpretation of the New Testament is going to rule this country? Catholic, Lutherans, Mormon, Jehovah Witnesses, Evangelicals, etc.? Pick one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations

Someone should ask her ilk those questions. I do it regularly and get blank faces or the severely ignorant response "Well, I'm sure that we can come up with something that will satisfy all Christian denominations." HA!!!

These clowns forgot history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion#:~:text=The%20European%20wars%20of%20religion,countries%20of%20Europe%2C%20or%20Christendom.

Justice matters.

(6,928 posts)
5. She is a Fascist who doesn't know
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 08:39 PM
Jun 2022

she's a Fascist.

The USDOJ has to subpoena her to tell the truth to the DC Grand Jury.

soldierant

(6,857 posts)
6. Sometimes Amendments are needed - in fact, the separation of church & state is in one.
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 08:45 PM
Jun 2022

And there have been a lot more since then.

But that is one thing that DOES NOT need amending.

ingling church and state currupts both of them.

(Which is why RWNJ evangelicals are so corrupt, both in office and as citizens - they believe in theocracy over everything else.)

plimsoll

(1,668 posts)
8. Roger Williams
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 10:30 PM
Jun 2022

Merging church and state brought the weeds of the world into the garden of the church. I wonder if Rhode Island is happy about the obviously weaker protections of religious liberty our constitution provides.

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