That's in the first amendment?

[kuronosan]

Everybody get your asses outside right now and go vote for the Tea Party. What better candidates to run our country than people who rightfully remember that the first amendment doesn't include separation of church and state?

Source: [just about everywhere] http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/1...-constitution/

“I didn’t bring my Constitution with me. Fortunately, senators don’t have to memorize the Constitution,” Christine O’Donnell, Delaware’s Republican Senate nominee, declared at the forum, held in the moot courtroom of Widener University.


Ms. O’Donnell attacked her Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, for insisting that public schools teach evolution but not “intelligent design,” which posits that life forms are too complex to have evolved through natural processes and must have been created by a conscious being such as God. Mr. Coons, the New Castle County executive, said that public schools could not teach intelligent design or similar theories, like creationism and creation science, because they were “religious doctrine” rather than science.


“That is a blatant violation of our Constitution,” Ms. O’Donnell said. “The Supreme Court has always said it is up to the local communities to decide their standards.”


That’s generally true–except when it comes to teaching religion-based nonscientific theories of human origin. In 1968, the high court struck down an Arkansas law prohibiting instruction in evolution. In 1987, the court invalidated a Louisiana statute requiring that “creation science,” an antecedent to intelligent design, be taught alongside evolution.


Ms. O’Donnell likened Mr. Coons’s position on evolution to those of “our so-called leaders in Washington” who have rejected the “indispensible principles of our founding.”

When Mr. Coons interjected that “one of those indispensible principles is the separation of church and state,” Ms. O’Donnell demanded, “Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?”


The audience exploded in laughter.


The Bill of Rights begins with the command, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” but it doesn’t specifically use the words “separation of church and state.”


In 1802, however, President Thomas Jefferson used the metaphor to explain the framers’ purpose, and courts since have followed his guidance.


The moderator moved on, but Ms. O’Donnell later returned to this question, demanding of Mr. Coons, “So you’re telling me the phrase, ‘the separation of church and state,’ is found in the Constitution.”


Mr. Coons began reciting the Establishment Clause, as it is known, prompting Ms. O’Donnell to ask, “That’s in the First Amendment?”


After the debate, an O’Donnell campaign spokesman said his candidate “simply made the point that the phrase appears nowhere in the Constitution.”
Coons campaign spokesman Daniel McElhatton said, “It is clear that Ms. O’Donnell does not believe in the separation of church and state, something the framers believed in so strongly that they made it the very first amendment.”


Ms. O’Donnell’s unfamiliarity with the Constitution extended beyond the First Amendment, when she was asked her view of tea party proposals to repeal some or all of the 14th, 16th and 17th amendments.


She said she would retain the 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913 to make U.S. senator an elected position, rather than appointed by state legislatures.


“Can you remind me of what the other ones are?” she asked.

[Tagus]

more like teabag party

[Dantrag]

Very lol worthy.

[Ragnus]

lololololololololol

[Odesseiron]

I'm pretty republican, but man this is fucking funny.

[Correction]

There's already a thread about o'donnel, probably best to keep all the stuff in there.

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/997...night-7-30-est

[BerenTebogo]

Isn't this the bitch who basically said, "I used to be a witch, but now I'm a christian so it's k!" ?

Hearty lol.

[quannum]

[Blarg]

Is there a video with this part specifically?

Mr. Coons began reciting the Establishment Clause, as it is known, prompting Ms. O’Donnell to ask, “That’s in the First Amendment?”

[Atreides]

Is it just me, or does it feel like the Republican party is just letting this bitch run wild because they know her ridiculousness is going to pull media attention from embarrasing people that actually have a chance at winning? I mean Sharon Angle is almost as crazy as O'Donnell but stuff like this makes Sharon Angle look just sane enough to get elected. I bet Karl Rove is sitting somewhere laughing with a face full of jelly donuts.

[Weeks]

She threw in the "Evolution is only a theory" argument liberally too.

It's getting to the point where it's cruel to laugh about her. We should show some compassion and readmit her to 6th grade.

[Senoska]

My first and only youtube video is directed at this very subject:


Really old video.

[sephir]

This is excellent. I would have loved to see a video of this debate.

[Khalil]

There's the good part of her being entirely fucking stupid.

[Souj]

taken from the youtube thread.

Keeping it classy...

and it's [video ] entire link [/ video]

[Kerberoz]

Funny, but in the end it doesn't matter. Teaparty voters don't give a shit about facts which conflict with their worldview.

[Ohemgee]

Coon: "Government shall not establish any religion......."
Witch: "Thats in the first amendment....?"
Coon *takes a long sip of water*


Should make the debate highlight viral

[kuronosan]

He's right though. Stupid ignorant uneducated fucks will eat this shit up like her and Sarah Palin are taking the fight to Washington when it clearly shows to the rest of the developed world what a fucking joke these idiots are.

[Feedmenow]

Spin and damage control:
http://lubbockonline.com/interact/bl...irst-amendment

[Plow]

The fact that she laughed with them, thinking they were laughing because she made a good point or some shit, just... blows my mind.

Spin and damage control:
http://lubbockonline.com/interact/bl...irst-amendment

Wow, I don't get mad at "news" articles or blogs very often but... fucking rage.