Posted on 08/03/2015 7:37:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: Question for Hillary and/or Sanders. Does the Communist Manifesto have authority over the U.S. Constitution?
Hillary thinking to herself: Saul Alinksy’s RULES FOR RADICALS does.
Great answer!
I answer it this way:
1. will you ask democrats the same question?
2. what you really want to ask is if I would select a passage from the bible and consider it to have overridden a specific sentence in the constitution.
The answer to that is no.
3. no part of my value system conflicts with any part of the constitution, but the ROP belief system is explicitly incompatible with the constitution. Would you ask a ROP member this question?
You are on the right track. The right answer is the exact same one Jesus gave, “Render unto Caesar those things that are Caesar’s and render unto God those things that are God’s. If the interviewer asks what that means then say “exactly what it says.”
The two govern different aspects of human life - legal and moral.
This is the post of the day. Correct in every way. In terms of Jesus’ teachings, he wanted people to follow his example of their own free will. I don't recall him organizing an army to force people to follow his teachings. Or using a police state to gain compliance.
If you take a look over the founding fathers...particularly Thomas Jefferson...he had issues and ended up rewriting or editing the Bible, and the Jefferson Bible is well known today. I think if any Republican went out and did the same thing....he’d be chased around in circles by the news media and religious figures.
My answer would be:
In my own personal life, yes. But the Constitution provides the rights and responsibilities of the government of the United States and is not the guide that God gives each of us to live our lives.
The Constitution gets its power from the people. The people gets their rights from their Creator.
Does the Creator have authority over the Constitution. hmmmm no so hard.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
“So ‘journolistas’ like Todd are now getting their questions from Facebook trolls?”
Thursday’s debate on FOX is co-sponsored by facebook. Expect 90 minutes of questions just like this one.
“When properly interpreted, the Constitution will not violate biblical principles.”
And that is why there should only be constitutionalists sitting on SCOTUS and not liberal hacks.
Yes it does.
Nothing is Ceasers, it all belongs to God.
I would ask Hillary, Bernie, or any other lib candidate if Das Kapital or the Communist manifesto have authority over the Constitution.
After you ask Hillary a tough question, I will have more respect for your right to play “gotcha.”
Boy, you guys here really hit the question out of the park. Carson needs to be reading you all!
If the Constitution were interpreted as written, there would be no need for the question. As written by the founders, the Constitution is compatible. Now, if an amendment were to be made allowing murder, would your personal belief that murder is wrong override the will of the People in your behavior?
“Assuming of course that Hillary would lower herself to go on a program such as Meet The Press????”
She doesn’t have a problem with it as long as she has been given a list of the questions to be asked or to possibly supply the questions.
“That is not a simple question by any stretch of the imagination,” Carson, retired neurosurgeon retorted.
“I think probably what you have to do is ask a very specific question about a specific passage of the Bible and a specific portion of the Constitution,” Carson added. “I don’t think you can answer that question other than out of very specific contexts.”
Proper response to such rhetorical misconduct is to call them out on it. Deconstruct the question. Reveal the hidden, and probably false, premises. Then use the smoking wreckage of the supposed "question" as a starting point from which to make some reasonably relevant conservative, constitutionalist point.
No.
The Bible does, however, have authority over us as we govern within the framework of the Constitution.
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