Tea Party Convention begins today
By JR Hoeft | Friday, October 8th, 2010 | Catch-AllIf you are a fan of limited government and think we are “taxed enough already” – this is the weekend for you here in the Commonwealth.
Virginia’s Tea Party Convention kicks-off today and goes through tomorrow.
Bearing Drift will be live at the convention all day Saturday. But, today, if you want to hear from John Fund and Dick Morris, among others, check out SWAC Girl and VA Right.
We’ll see you on Cover-It Live tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m!
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Oy vey! Just loved some of the quotes in the Times-Dispatch from the attendees. This one was the best (not!)
“We can’t get any better than going back to the founding documents, based on Christ, based on personal freedoms,” Bill Goode said.”
I don’t recall “Christ” being at the constitutional conventions of 1781 and 1787. In fact, I don’t see his name anywhere in the “founding documents.” What is wrong with some of these people?
Yikes!
I’m all for Judeo-Christian heritage, but there were plenty of enlightened naturalists at the previous ConCons.
“A Christian nation is a theological impossibility, and faith coerced is not faith at all, only tyranny. The Founders understood this.” –Jon Meacham, 2010
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded upon the Christian religion.” –John Adams, 1797
Virginians, of all people, should know better. If they have forgotten their state history lessons, they want to bone up on Thomas Jefferson’s “Statute of Religious Freedom.”
If you’d like to read it, here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Statute_for_Religious_Freedom
For those interested in the FIRST FREEDOM CENTER, based in Richmond, visit here:
http://www.firstfreedom.org/
Craig Kilby,
Quoting Jon Meacham is not exactly going to convince any conservative readers of your point.
John Adams did not say that. That statement is from the Treaty of Tripoli, and if you read the whole quote you misplaced the period, the rest of the sentence states:
“as it has in itself no character of enmity [hatred] against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] and as the said States [America] have never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”
The statement in its full context states that we are not a Christian nation in the same sense as certain strains of Christianity that held hostility to Muslims due to there religion. It did not exclude the possibility that we are a Christian nation, just not a particular type of Christian nation.
Besides,several of the states actually had state churches until the 1820′s. Massachusetts being one of them.
There were definitely some enlightenment figures among the founders, but they often paid deference to Christian ideas and their role is sometimes over stressed and the roles of Christians like Patrick Henry or Benjamin Rush are often under stated.
So this Tea Partier is not off base…also this points to the fact that the TEA Parties are a lot more religious than many would like to admit.
Mr Hoeft, I hope that you will find time to talk to some of the “little people”. Ask them why they decided to join the Tea Party.
@Steven, this jew is in no way turned off by the Tea parties inclusion of religious values. Without them we are screwed as a country. The Tea Party movement brings the faith and values of our founding fathers and mothers to the fore, something painfully lacking in the minds of many voters.
I am definitely a constitutional conservative, and a free mason. If the Tea Party is based on going back to the founding documents, I hope that includes the Bill of Rights. With respect to this thread, may I suggest everyone read the First Amendment to the Constitution?
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