This Week in Washington: 6/15/09

[iloveterriers]

I agree with many of your points, but when I saw your website, it has all these obsessive articles about Judeo-Christian God. That's always disappointing to me because to me there is a hidden agenda behind this. Leave religion out of government.

[aliunde]

Why? The founders viewed religion as being essential to success of the American experiment and Constitution. The Constitution ensures the inclusion of religion in the marketplace of ideas. The only restriction placed by the Constitution is that Congress would pass no LAW respecting an establishment of religion; i.e., setting up a state religion as had been done in all the countries of Europe. Our founding documents presuppose the existence of a Supreme Being for our rights.

[iloveterriers]

Okay, but does the Supreme Being have to be a certain religion's ideal or can it be any Supreme Being? If this is to be fair, then it should not focus on any one religion.

[aliunde]

The Founders, while not generally sectarians, certainly held Christian values. They often had harsh views towards many sectarians of their day, however--views that lead to the commonly mistaken belief that they were deists. It was certainly Christian ideals to which they appealed as the foundation of the nation's values. If the majority's values are informed primarily by one religion, those values will no doubt be reflected in government policy and its laws consistent with the Constitution.

[CMK227CR]

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[truthsabre7]

There is a train of disaster coming and no one can stop it.

[sixletter]

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe, while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)

[PilatusPorterPC6]

Ted Kennedy bill? He is a USELESS DRUNK!!! Ted needs another, final stroke!

[DesertLaser]

I dislike socialism more than most, but it's wrong to wish ill health upon another.

[QuartuvLarry]

Well...some of us don't ACTIVELY wish ill of Tumor Kennedy ALL the time. Only between meals and snack times.

[SigalaSigala]

Let Mary Jo's family drive him over a bridge.

[Nickk361]

Thanks for your videos Heritage. Keep them coming. This administration scares the hell out of me.