several days of an embarrassingly negative media shitstorm.

Heh.

There's less "under the radar" room.

learned from the Louisiana legislator who wrote a law that was enacted to send school voucher money to go to religious schools. Then was hit with the numerous Muslim groups getting the money to set up madrassas.

She said that she never imagined anyone but Christians would get the money. The problem with these guys is they have no idea of the consequences of their actions - unless they are already so corrupt they want bad outcomes.

I'm not sure they don't. The GOP are playing with and ruining the fabric of American life in all that they do, like bullies at recess.

Jefferson's wall of separation between church and state is among the best ideas America ever had. Let's keep it that way.

for religion, it only means their religion. The degree of their surprise when they realize that it applies to other religions is sometimes amusing and always surprising.

The separation issues have been trampled over the last few years in many states, but I think the pendulum is swinging back.

to run for office in the GOP.

You don't need to have studied law or even have a basic grounding in Civics to run as a R for office. Just that you loudly say that you are a "good, god-fearing christian" suffices.

I wonder how many of these nutbars in office come out of the fundie homeschooling mill? I'm sure many of the young guns do. But the older ones?

They know how to appeal to a certain demographic, and I am sure this bunch still has some strong support in certain quarters. Their constituency is probably not populated with people who know much more than they do about the law.

I ask, "What are the first and second commandments?" The answer is "I am YHWH your God. You shall have no other gods except me." I then ask, "What is the basic difference between posting that and posting "There is no god but Allah and Muhammed is his prophet"? The answer there is, of course, none. Any other answer is generally an example of the logical fallacy of Special Pleading

At least the religious fervor that goes with the Second Amendment, where nothing but their interpretation is holy. Any disagreement is met with fury.