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if you listen to any of the fundies--the legal "scholars" given mechanisms for social mobility by the federalist society and any number of other new conservative-funded pseudo-academic outfits--when they talk about the "founders" the argument comes down to an attempt to undermine th idea that there is anything secular about the constitution--from this follows the argument for strict interpretation and the absurd original intent doctrine--if the courts legislate, they violate gods will seems to be the underlying argument. because god operates through the constitution as they interpret it.
if you look at the christian right from this angle, it becomes clear that there is no internal brake on what they understand themselves as being able to do in blurring the line between their beliefs and what they feel can and should be imposed on the rest of us politically.
which is yet another reason why it is hard to be neutral about the christian right as a political force.
because this group has surfaced as a political force, the question of what believers think or do is moot.
it seems to me that trying to switch the question of belief for the questions raised by the actions of this political block is an attempt to shortcircuit conversation about the latter.
i think i might have said this already, in a different way. but there we are.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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