By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
Easter is early this year, like our premature spring and the occasional glimmers of a steamy summer ahead. What’s late includes congressional cooperation on gun safety measures, legal equality in marriage (and other) contracts for all citizens and a whole slew of progressive legislation designed to assist the struggling American public. These politically tangled and confusing topics are often examined, here on the blog, having received in-depth coverage in the Friday editions emailed to members. Eric’s ability to paint a larger picture of the news of the day lays the groundwork for candid, insightful discussions and enlightening conversation. If you’re reading this now, you may be one of those who has come to depend on them.
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On to the topics of the day, including gun safety issues and matters of the court. Because so much of this conversation centers on the Constitution, let’s agree that media is not just late to this party, but complicit in failing to promote a basic understanding of the larger argument regarding the founders intent, religious persuasion or the originating document that continues to keep us at swords point.
The founders were moneyed, propertied business men, anxious to avoid — then, as now — taxation without representation. Some of them were pragmatic, some were altruistic, and few of them were Christian in the sense ascribed to them by fundamentalists today. At a time when people had little access to religious choice, the prevailing religion was clearly christian (with a small c) but hardly overriding. The lack of mention of God, except in the most general terms, illustrates the internal wariness that sought to protect a secular government against religious interference.