That's nice that you don't, oh oblivious one, but I do. I'm supposed to, as is everyone else.
Swearing to affirm, support, and defend the Constitution means swearing to affirm, support, and defend the Christianity upon which it is based. Anyone who cannot do this should not be in office.
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"Swearing to affirm, support, and defend the Constitution means swearing to affirm, support, and defend the Christianity upon which it is based"
Ahemm....
PHAIL!!
[Swearing to affirm, support, and defend the Constitution means swearing to affirm, support, and defend the Christianity upon which it is based.]
No, it doesn't.
"Swearing to affirm, support, and defend the Constitution means swearing to affirm, support, and defend the Christianity upon which it is based."
But... it's not.
"Anyone who cannot do this should not be in office."
Article VI of the self same Constitution says otherwise:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States .
aren't swearing and affirming two separate things? Swearing is calling God to witness that what you say is the truth. Others cannot swear for religious or irregligious reasons. They affirm. The effect in law is much the same. Except that in the second case a non-believed in, or hyper-believed in god is not invoked. But the penaltiy for falsely swearing or falsely affirming are severe. It still doesn't stop people from perjuring or lying.
"That's nice that you don't, oh oblivious one, but I do. I'm supposed to, as is everyone else."
This sounds like something out of a Dr. Seuss book.
It's funny you should say that, because I was just at Independence Hall today, where they wrote both the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
And I found exactly ZERO references to Christianity in particular or even religion in general. There were definitely references to the Greek and Roman ideals of public service, so are Americans supposed to uphold the Roman religious ideals as well?
Our founding fathers were very careful to design a governmental system in which church and state were separated. Our laws may have some semblance of similarity and basis in some christian teachings, but our government and laws were intended to be a-theistic. In fact, "In God We Trust" was not added to the first piece of currency until after the civil war and not to the first piece of paper currency until the early 1950's. Go back and do your homework. We are a democracy, not a theocracy.
Keep your religion to yourself.
Um, I will gladly affirm, support and defend the Constitution. I'd rather pull my own wisdom teeth with salad tongs than affirm, support and defend most of the Christian dogma and most certainly most of the assholes who rip apart and twist what is good into bad.
Another freecon who has NEVER READ THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION. Surprise, surprise. The fundies who get quoted here seldom have read the Bible, and freecons seem to have never read a history book or any of the Constitution. Yet that never seems to stop them from inserting their stupid anti-American bullshit into both documents.
How is it possible that so many people can get something so important to your culture so utterly wrong?
I've never been to America, and I never plan to, but even I know how wrong you are.
That you can say this tells me that you have never read the Constitution, and apparently did not make it through a 10th grade history class. Moron.
Damn Freakers. If this is the best example of a "hero" they can come up with, I almost feel sorry for them.
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice."
You have the option of also stating "So Help Me God" at the end.
Fundamentalist Christianity is a domestic enemy. Guess who's side I'll be on?
*turns her Constitution upside-down and shakes it*
Why does everyone get a Christianity in their Constitution except me? Screw this, I'm buying Crackerjack from now on.
treaty of tripoli
NOW YIELD TO ME BITCH
Deist founders.
TOT,B
yawn
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