A Leauki's Writings
Published on November 19, 2009 By Leauki In Republican

This is excellent:

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/area_man_passionate_defender_of

"Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: 'one nation under God,'" said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. "Well, there's a reason they put that right at the top."

"Men like Madison and Jefferson were moved by the ideals of Christianity, and wanted the United States to reflect those values as a Christian nation," continued Mortensen, referring to the "Father of the Constitution," James Madison, considered by many historians to be an atheist, and Thomas Jefferson, an Enlightenment-era thinker who rejected the divinity of Christ and was in France at the time the document was written. "The words on the page speak for themselves."

 


Comments
on Nov 20, 2009

hahaha - gotta love the onion. "According to sources who have read the nation's charter ... " Thanks for that article, I laughed for about 5 minutes straight. It strangely reminded me of several posts I read here