{"id":21734,"date":"2011-01-05T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21734"},"modified":"2011-01-05T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:01:31","slug":"nadler-and-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21734","title":{"rendered":"Nadler and the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cortillaen sent us an email about Jerry “The Waddler” Nadler and some quotes about him in the Washington Post<\/a> today. Nadler is feeling a bit insecure about Republicans reading the Constitution. He reminds me of a critic of Christianity who is a little bit afraid of being judged for his sins;<\/p>\n

“They are reading it like a sacred text,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the outgoing chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties, who has studied and memorized the Constitution with talmudic intensity.<\/p>\n

Nadler called the “ritualistic reading” on the floor “total nonsense” and “propaganda” intended to claim the document for Republicans. “You read the Torah, you read the Bible, you build a worship service around it,” said Nadler, who argued that the Founders were not “demigods” and that the document’s need for amendments to abolish slavery and other injustices showed it was “highly imperfect.”<\/p>\n

“You are not supposed to worship your constitution. You are supposed to govern your government by it,” he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the Democrats had only used the Constitution to “govern your government by it”, they wouldn’t be in this mess. They’ve twisted every little phrase so out of shape that it’s hardly recognizable in the halls of Congress, and lately in the White House. <\/p>\n

These are the people who tried make rape interstate commerce. They find a right to privacy so women can murder their unborn children. They find a right to healthcare and determine that they can make people buy healthcare. And “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” means the government can take away guns whenever they want.<\/p>\n

The Constitution was written to constrain government, the Bill of Rights were added to protect individual citizens from the excesses of government and the tyranny of the majority. It is revered by the People like a religion. It resides in a fortified chamber under the National Archives because the Constitution is the basis for our very existence.<\/p>\n

It was written in a time when a nation’s authority resided in the body of a living king whose lineage was supposedly ordained by God. We had no king, no lineage and we were founded on the principle that all men derived their liberties from our Creator. The Constitution was written to protect those liberties. <\/p>\n

The Constitution wasn’t perfect and hundreds of thousands have shed their blood to correct those shortcomings. That’s why we remember them in our daily lives – hundreds of thousands of saints who martyred themselves for a document. And continue to fall to maintain our reverence for it.<\/p>\n

It’s Nadler’s problem if he feels he needs to disparage it and the people who still believe in it because of his own sins against the Constitution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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