What if the GOP faithful came up to you and said: "but we gave you the Constitution."
Catholics were taking credit for the Declaration of Independence just a day ago:
The fact is that in terms of the Declaration of Independence for most part “the principles enunciated in it are identically the political thought and theory predominant and traditional among representative Catholic churchmen, and not the political thought and inspiration of the politico-religious revolt of the sixteenth century, nor of the later social-contract or compact theories”....As opposed to:
-- from the thread Did the Catholic Church really support the Divine Right of Kings?
History is eloquent in declaring that the American republican democracy was born of Christianity and that form of Christianity was Calvinism. The great revolutionary conflict which resulted in the founding of this nation was carried out mainly by Calvinists--many of whom had been trained in the rigidly Presbyterian college of Princeton........In fact, most of the early American culture was Reformed or tied strongly to it (just read the New England Primer). Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, a Roman Catholic intellectual and National Review contributor, asserts: “If we call the American statesmen of the late eighteenth century the Founding Fathers of the United States, then the Pilgrims and Puritans were the grandfathers and Calvin the great-grandfather…”
-- from the thread John Calvin: Religious liberty and Political liberty
I would tell the GOP faithful: Please keep all of your policies, legislation, positions, Party platform etc. in conformity to the US Constitution.
Just as I would tell the Catholic faithful, while you are free to develop your own rules, regulations, dogmas, doctrines, liturgy etc., NO ONE has the right to re-write the Bible or re-write history. There are many different Christian denominations. But there is only one Bible and it applies to all of us IMHO.