Here’s what MSNBC reports [1] regarding the newly passed bill “to protect the pledge of allegiance.”
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., said America was a nation of God-given inalienable rights and that’s why the country is in a war against “radical Islamists.” Democrats wouldn’t want to “cut and run” in Iraq, he said, “if they understood the importance of those basic principles and that inalienable rights are impossible without a recognition of God and that’s why the pledge bill is important and not irrelevant or trivial.”
Nothing about WMD. Nothing about creating a democracy for Iraqis (now that we know how they’d vote).
For Akin, by the way, there’s only one true version of God. The Christian version. In fact, Akin has shown support [2] for Christian Reconstructionism, a movement [3]calling for the intentional subordination of American civil law to biblical law. Other members of this organization have called for the death penalty for homosexuals, abortion doctors and women guilty of “unchastity before marriage,” among other moral crimes. Akin personally attended the April 7, 2005 gathering of the Christian Reconstructionists to give a welcome message (Tom Delay gave a welcome by video hookup).
Your tax dollars at work.
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