On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:46:59 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 2/28/2015 10:16 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 2/28/15 9:58 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:54:18 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

...vote for Republican candidates:

A majority of Republicans nationally support establishing
Christianity as the national religion, according to a new Public Policy
Polling survey released Tuesday.

The poll by the Democratic-leaning firm found that 57 percent of
Republicans “support establishing Christianity as the national religion”
while 30 percent are opposed. Another 13 percent said they were not
sure.

The irony is rich. Many Republican activists like to describe themselves
as “Constitutional Conservatives,” but under the Constitution – at least
in this country – the very idea of a national religion is antithetical
to the American tradition. Indeed, the opening words of the Bill of
Rights explicitly say, “Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion.”

There’s nothing “conservative” about a theocratic agenda in which one
faith tradition is endorsed by the government above all other belief
systems.

But this week, it wasn’t just the poll results that highlighted the
problem. A county Republican Party in Idaho pushed a resolution that
intended to identify Idaho as a “formally and specifically declared a
Christian state.” One local activist told reporters, “We’re a Christian
community in a Christian state and the Republican Party is a Christian
party.”

The resolution was ultimately defeated by the state party, but the fact
that it was considered, and enjoyed a fair amount of support, was
unsettling for supporters of church-state separation.

Read more at:

http://tinyurl.com/k4l7fh2

Strange as it might seem to you, I agree this was a dumb idea


It's not just a dumb idea for Idaho. Establishing christianity as the
national religion is an idea the majority of GOPers favor, and it isn't
the only bad exclusionary idea Republicans want to push onto everyone.



I wonder how an equal sampling of Democrats would respond to the same
question. The referenced poll doesn't mention that.

From a political perspective it may not be such a dumb idea however. 77
percent of Americans identify themselves as being Christian.

Doesn't mean they want their religion running things in the state
house or in congress.

Separation was for good reason and it should stay, according to this
Democrat.