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This Rolling Stone profile of Sam Brownback is making new rounds
In it you can find all sorts of brave new disturbing ideas like:
Umm... The constitution doesn't promise insanity. Brownback might, but the constitution doesn't. The constitution was designed to secure liberty and prevent theocracy. Not the other way around. But Brownie's having none of it:
Let me guess. God. No, No, Wait! It's President Bush. It's President Bush isn't it! Whatever this is, it's not America.
Meanwhile, this quote from American University law professor Jamie Raskin is about marriage, but it could have been said about Brownback. It is what you would call germaine:
In it you can find all sorts of brave new disturbing ideas like:
Now, Brownback seeks something far more radical: not faith-based politics but faith in place of politics. In his dream America, the one he believes both the Bible and the Constitution promise, the state will simply wither away. In its place will be a country so suffused with God and the free market that the social fabric of the last hundred years -- schools, Social Security, welfare -- will be privatized or simply done away with. There will be no abortions; sex will be confined to heterosexual marriage. Men will lead families, mothers will tend children, and big business and the church will take care of all.
Umm... The constitution doesn't promise insanity. Brownback might, but the constitution doesn't. The constitution was designed to secure liberty and prevent theocracy. Not the other way around. But Brownie's having none of it:
He tells a story about a chaplain who challenged a group of senators to reconsider their conception of democracy. "How many constituents do you have?" the chaplain asked. The senators answered: 4 million, 9 million, 12 million. "May I suggest," the chaplain replied, "that you have only one constituent?"
Let me guess. God. No, No, Wait! It's President Bush. It's President Bush isn't it! Whatever this is, it's not America.
Meanwhile, this quote from American University law professor Jamie Raskin is about marriage, but it could have been said about Brownback. It is what you would call germaine:
"Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn't place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."
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