Did I say that I opposed the Faith Based ministries on the basis of our constitutional separation of church and state? No. I said that I didn't want to support mosques with it. Call me insensitive, but I think it will require our already busy Homeland Security LEOs to work overtime trying to figure out which mosque is safe and which ones aren't. Besides, I'm not interested in encouraging Islam here in America. I don't think it should be banned outright, but it should come under intense scrutiny; I think the President agrees, and I support his Religion of Peace language because it helps us appeal to millions of muslims who can and would like to help us. But all of this is separate, in my mind, from the first amendment. It's more of a taxation without representation issue. I don't like that my tax dollars are going to support organizations that I might not agree with. I do think the program offers this country benefits. Isn't it OK to be ambivalent about it?
Do you think that "under God" should be removed from the pledge of allegiance?
No, and I think this is just one of the dozens and dozens of issues the ACLU and its weak-kneed apologists are working overtime for political correctness. I know of no classroom in America where children are forced to speak those words. It's all a sham perpetrated by the overly sensitive, wishing to modify our laws so that their narrow views of culture should be imposed on the rest of us. I oppose all attempts to use our laws to reshape the predominate culture, including the misguided same-sex "marriage" initiative and speech limits on people who speak their minds about morality on college campuses and so forth.
Freedom needs our defense every day. There is no formula for ensuring its security. There is no law that can enforce its health. It lives inside each of us, and we all have to protect it with our own actions. When the love of freedom diminishes, and when we begin to value our lives more than our liberty, the darkness will soon come. But there is no law on earth that can protect us from ourselves.
Do you think that Courthouses should be forbidden to display the Ten Commandments?