57% Of Republicans Want Christianity As National Religion

[Crysuko]

*puts down newspaper*
never gonna happen, secularism is written into the constitution
*pick newspaper back up*

[Benuty]

Title was a little misleading since its pretty hard to find a Dominionist Catholic let alone a member of American Orthodoxy.

[Benuty]

57% of Republicans supporting making Christianity the official religion of the US proves the UK is evil?
How does that work?

No, that Christianity is a threat just like islam

As much as you amuse me the conspiracy theories are really of no value here.

[Khorsun]

Then 43% of Republicans don't. Pretty significant opposition, no?

[Yumyumsuppertime]

Then 43% of Republicans don't. Pretty significant opposition, no?

"Okay, sure, 57% of this group think that they should have the right to maturbate in public, but that means that 43% don't. Pretty significant opposition, no?"

[Imperialpowersofkorea]

No, that Christianity is a threat just like islam

As much as you amuse me the conspiracy theories are really of no value here.

You amuse me

[Salandriagado]

An amendment changes the text of the Constitution, it would override the Establishment clause.

Yes, but it might be that the proposed amendment itself would be unconstitutional.

Only if it deprived a state of its equal suffrage in the senate without the consent of that state. Since 1808, that's been the only possible way for an amendment to be unconstitutional (prior to that, it also couldn't allow congress to ban immigration that the states permitted, or tax such immigration at a rate of more than $10/person, or raise taxes not in proportion to the census).

[MERIZoC]

I'm honestly surprised it's not higher.

[United Marxist Nations]

Court has no original jurisdiction on proposed bills. Challenges can only be made to Laws, not bills.

I meant once passed by Congress and sent to the States for ratification. I don't know, maybe you can't challenge a proposed amendment. It does strike me that such a proposal would die a quick death in committee.

You cannot challenge a proposed amendment in the courts, because it is not considered a law being passed.

[Benuty]

I'm honestly surprised it's not higher.

Because too many of them are secretly getting too high to care.

[Ifreann]

One wonders what percentage think it already is...

[Tarsonis Survivors]

Then 43% of Republicans don't. Pretty significant opposition, no?

"Okay, sure, 57% of this group think that they should have the right to maturbate in public, but that means that 43% don't. Pretty significant opposition, no?"

Sigh, I thought we had killed all the Skeptics. *Grabs government approved 10 round carrying gun* nothing but work work work around here.

[Tarsonis Survivors]

One wonders what percentage think it already is...

Probably about 40%.

[Risottia]

Pretty much what it says on the tin. In a poll by Public Policy Polling, and in response to the question "Would you support or oppose establishing Christianity as the national religion?" (Q17), 57% of Republicans interviewed stated that they supported this idea.

This strikes me as troubling. While it's no surprise that the GOP has leaned ever more right over the past few decades, and has pandered particularly to the religious right during that period of time in a mad scramble for votes, I find it disturbing that a majority of people in the party are so openly disdainful of the Constitution. Previously, the rhetoric was at least hidden behind a veil of "We respect everyone's right to believe as they wish". Now it's more of a "If you're not all about Jesus, then you're not really an American".

Thoughts?

57% of Republicans hate the Constitution of the United States of America. Colour me surprised.

[Maineiacs]

Someone needs to tell them The Handmaid's Tale was a novel, not a blueprint.

[The States of Balloon]

At least it isn't 58%.

[Ifreann]

At least it isn't 58%.

Well the margin for error is +/- 5.5%, so it could be up to 62.5%. But hey, at least it isn't 63%.

[Wombocombo]

As someone who has a good portion of friends as Atheists, eh. Does a national religion even mean anything other than 'Take that godless heathens of the world!'. It seems like something we'd try to do during the Cold War or something. Not an issue I think.

[Ifreann]

As someone who has a good portion of friends as Atheists, eh. Does a national religion even mean anything other than 'Take that godless heathens of the world!'. It seems like something we'd try to do during the Cold War or something. Not an issue I think.

In theory a national religion could be of as little consequence as a national bird. In theory it could lead to a permanent Remove Kebab casus belli on all neighbouring heathens and heretics.

[MERIZoC]

At least it isn't 58%.

Well the margin for error is +/- 5.5%, so it could be up to 62.5%. But hey, at least it isn't 63%.

That'd be intolerable.

[Agritum]

Then 43% of Republicans don't. Pretty significant opposition, no?

I think that the fact that 43% STILL AREN'T full-blown Dominionists is the real news here.

[The Wolven League]

Oh god no....


WHY REPUBLICANS. WHHHHYYYYYY.



I already am not fond of America, if they have Christianity as a national religion, then I'm out.


We should exterminate everyone who voted yes in that poll, for the good of mankind's sanity.

[Larrylykinsland]

As someone who has a good portion of friends as Atheists, eh. Does a national religion even mean anything other than 'Take that godless heathens of the world!'. It seems like something we'd try to do during the Cold War or something. Not an issue I think.

They did that with the Pledge of Allegiance. They added "under god".

[Risottia]

At least it isn't 58%.

Well the margin for error is +/- 5.5%, so it could be up to 62.5%. But hey, at least it isn't 63%.

Well, not quite.

[nitpicking]
The margin of error (which, if not specified otherwise, is plus or minus one standard deviation from the average) being plus or minus 5.5% on an average of 57% means that there's about a 68% confidence that the actual value falls between 51.5% and 62.5% . Which doesn't rule out the cases of the actual value being 2%, 63% or 99% ... it just says that those values are a lot less likely.
[/nitpicking]

[The Wolven League]

As someone who has a good portion of friends as Atheists, eh. Does a national religion even mean anything other than 'Take that godless heathens of the world!'. It seems like something we'd try to do during the Cold War or something. Not an issue I think.

They did that with the Pledge of Allegiance. They added "under god".

Yep. One of the reasons I dislike this nation (US) is that damned pledge...