Independent Gubernatorial candidate Samuel Duck decided to throw in his lot with the teabagging crowd at a tea party meeting yesterday. According to the Maryville newspaper, The Daily Times, Duck was a hit. Wait until you see what he brought to the party.http://www.thedailytimes.com/...
According to the paper Mr. Duck threw some red meat to the "I want my country back" crowd, if by that they meant several centuries back. He let it be known that precedent shouldn't count in judicial matters. That's right. Two centuries of the brightest legal minds interpreting just how to apply the tenets of the Constitution in a modern and changing society are just the work of librul activist judges, you betcha. Black people voting, women voting, Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, all hogwash. Says Mr. Duck:
"Many of our judges, leaders and executives believe that judicial precedent is as important as the Constitution itself," Duck said. "If we lose focus on the Constitution, our rulings cease to be based on the Constitution at all."
He claims that because the actual phrase "separation of church and State" is not in the Constitution, there is not really a reason for the government to stay out of the religion business. Peggy Carouthers, the reporter for The Daily Times summarizes Mr. Duck's statement as follows:
"Duck supported his argument with historical data he said was mostly collected from the Library of Congress. He asserted that nowhere in the First Amendment, or the Constitution, does it say that government and religion must stay separate."
Never mind that over the last 200 years, give or take, the Supremes have found again and again that "government shall make no law..."has meant exactly what Mr. Duck thinks it doent't. After all, precedent is for heathen libruls, and those judges are just doing that kind of thing to force everyone to become atheists. You don't think so? Well, Mr. Duck and the TP's do. Another quote from the article:
"We can’t force anyone else to pray or take a Bible. Don’t try," he said, adding later, "I don’t advocate pushing religion on anyone, I’m just fighting people that are pushing atheism on us. We need to be aware that there are ways to fight back, and we need to actually fight back."
Whew, at least they are not openly advocating for forced prayer, but it was a squeeker. And for him to have the gall to claim atheism is being forced on us is laughable and sad at the same time.
I'm pretty sure Mr Duck passed a church on every street corner driving from his hotel to the TP venue. He would have been welcome to 'get religion' in any one of them.