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If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin<\/a><\/p>\n

*wipes foam off mouth*<\/p>\n

I will probably respond to this later. It’s too soon after I read this. I need to sit down a bit for a while. Get my heart rate and blood pressure under control.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I mean:<\/p>\n

“Separation of church and state is ‘a lie we have been told’<\/em>“?<\/p>\n

This candidate for the US senate *gasp* calls her own nation’s constitution a lie<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

“separating religion and politics is ‘wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers<\/em>‘”?<\/p>\n

Lady, go look up the meaning of the word ‘democracy’. This is neither Iran nor the Vatican. US citizens choose our leaders (check that constitution again!). In any case, if God chooses our rulers, why are you campaigning?<\/p>\n

“God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.”<\/em>“?<\/p>\n

To claim to know God’s intention is pure blashpemy, or stupidity, depending on your religiosity, but in both cases\u00c2\u00a0extremely arrogant. The intention of the founding fathers, however, can<\/strong> be known, since they wrote it down. Mrs. Harris clearly doesn’t have a\u00c2\u00a0clue<\/strong> about her own country’s history.<\/p>\n

She means to tell me that the founding fathers didn’t\u00c2\u00a0mean<\/strong> to establish the strict separation of church and state after one of them, Thomas Jefferson, wrote this (part of a longer)\u00c2\u00a0letter:<\/p>\n

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their<\/u> legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion<\/strong>, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state<\/strong>.<\/em>“<\/p>\n

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