www.realestateradiousa.com | Is Christine O’Donnell real ignorant about the Costitution or is the media being horribly unfair?Where better to learn about the US Constitution than at a law school? Unfortunately for Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, that education — which came at Delaware’s Widener Law on Thursday — was courtesy of her opponent in the race, Democrat Chris Coons, in the midst of their second debate. After scolding Coons for his lack of knowledge of constitutional law for stating that intelligent design should not be taught in public schools (a matter decided in a scathing decision in the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District), O’Donnell challenged her rival on his assertion that the US Constitution creates a distinct separation between church and state. “Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?” O’Donnell asked. Upon hearing her words, the audience in the room burst into laughter. Video of the debate captures the moment at the 2:46 mark. Later in the proceedings, after fielding questions on the candidates’ views on repealing the 14th, 16th and 17th Amendments, Coons returned the conversation to the question of the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. “I absolutely oppose the widespread proposals by tea party candidates for us to repeal the 14th, 16th or 17th amendments.” Coons said. “I also think you just heard, in the answers from my opponent, and in her attempt at saying ‘where is the separation …
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simplyskyla
January 15, 2011 at 7:21 pm
@uplink62 you must be the idiot for supporting this woman lol!
EddieJJ
January 15, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Christine O’Dumbell doesn’t have the intelligence to sell Happy Meals. What an embarassment. Okay honey…close the borders AFTER to leave.
patriot473
January 15, 2011 at 7:46 pm
@kbgoro You’ll never convince most Americans, who believe in a creator, that the founding fathers, who believed in a creator, a theory (intelligent design), based on a creator, should not be taught to their children alongside a theory based on atheism (evolution) in public schools paid for by taxpayers. Just because some Supreme Court judges interpret the 1st amendment that way does not make it truth.
patriot473
January 15, 2011 at 8:08 pm
@patriot473 A legal document drafted by our founders to the British king, states that the colonists’ uninalienable rights are endowed by a CREATOR. If some of the colonists were atheists then it violated their (not yet written) 1st Amendment right. This is why the seperation of church & state interpretation is flawed.
lietz13
January 15, 2011 at 8:38 pm
@patriot473 ….What?
kbgoro
January 15, 2011 at 8:39 pm
@uplink62
Bush is the one who got uss in this mess with the Iraq war, so stfu and Obama inherited all his mess, and people blaming him for his efforts. How will stopping government spending and pulling the plug on government programs help our economy? We need the government because the private sector is so unstable right now, but with republicans and house causing gridlock, along with Sarah Palin, it will only fuel Obama’s chances of getting reelected. Obama 2012 suck it, bitch.
uplink62
January 15, 2011 at 9:35 pm
@simplyskyla …Hey simply stupid, America has spoken and you’ve been rejected. Now go lay down. Don’t you have a window sill that has some lead based paint you haven’t eaten yet? Big Govt and socialist stupidity is what got us into this mess. You libtards have controlled congress since long before bush left office. Your boy spent more than every president that came before him COMBINED! Now go learn to count past 10 without removing your shoes!
uplink62
January 15, 2011 at 9:49 pm
@Ninjamohawk …and you’d stand in awe of a melting popsicle so you aren’t saying much with your 2nd sentence. O’Donnell is no rocket scientist, must be the name, but I’d take a pound of common sense over a truckload of leftist drivel any day. She’s on the right side of the argument, as is the case with all conservatives, so stand in awe of US as we unwind the tangled mess your leaders made. America has spoken and found your side something to reject. Big govt. is not what made this nation great!
uplink62
January 15, 2011 at 10:21 pm
@Ninjamohawk – You are unqualified to comment on logic OR sense! Just because some left leaning judges misinterpreted the 1st amendment doesn’t mean they were right. You support those who would leave late term abortion survivors to die in dumpsters. I like choices but you can’t ask a baby what hers is. If all abortions were performed on window lickers like yourself, it still wouldn’t be right but we’d see ethical & intellectual advancement the most aggressive eugenics programs couldn’t match!
patriot473
January 15, 2011 at 10:42 pm
According to liberals, the Declaration of Independence is a violation of the seperation of church & state!
patriot473
January 15, 2011 at 11:39 pm
@TaffyAlpha You’ll never convince most Americans, who believe in a creator, that the founding fathers, who believed in a creator, a theory, based on a creator, should not be taught to their children alongside a theory based on atheism.
MRBromley1
January 15, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Christine went full retard……Never go full retard
Ninjamohawk
January 16, 2011 at 12:13 am
@uplink62 …you are a spectacular moron. I stand in awe of how utterly devoid of logic and sense your comment is. I read a lot of youtube comments so I know stupid when I read it and I must say without a shadow of a doubt your comment is the stupidest thing I’ve heard since what Christine O’Donnell said in this video.
kbgoro
January 16, 2011 at 12:18 am
@MrRepublicanDumbAss
Clearly you’re incapable of reading and interpreting the First Amendment, like Christine O’Donnell.
Well done!
P.S. learn how to spell correctly.
kbgoro
January 16, 2011 at 12:36 am
Christine O’donnell is a stupid idiot. nuff said
MrRepublicanpatriot
January 16, 2011 at 12:59 am
it DOES NOT say seperation of curch and state in the first ammendment you idiots
uplink62
January 16, 2011 at 1:46 am
Just because a nation does not establish a national meal like say pasta or tacos, you can’t assume a separation of food and state. But if food stood in the way of killing a late term abortion survivor, well indoctrinated leftists like those chosen by the party to run for office, would surely starve.
futeki16
January 16, 2011 at 1:51 am
“The Christian God is a being of terrific character – cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust” – Thomas Jefferson
Need I say more?
AlGurab
January 16, 2011 at 1:58 am
@MistyOjaiGirl I love you…. best thing I have heard all week.
Dijin22
January 16, 2011 at 2:28 am
i love that cocky look on her face near the end
chad83sawyer
January 16, 2011 at 2:35 am
i must confess that i want to have a 3some with odonnel and sarah palin
MistyOjaiGirl
January 16, 2011 at 3:31 am
Debating Creationiists on the topic of evolution is like trying to play chess with a pidgeon. It knocks the pieces over, craps on the board and flies back to its flock to claim victory.
kboanddbo
January 16, 2011 at 4:23 am
So glad she lost.
CNUanMan
January 16, 2011 at 4:25 am
Oh god, this was hilarious. Sad, very very sad, but hilarious still.
simplyskyla
January 16, 2011 at 4:26 am
here ya go tea party………this is exactly why your little run will be meaningless. take back america? Obama has been president for 2 years….u are so quick to blame him for unemployment..the huge debt….but let’s not forgot it was in fact REPUBLICANS who got us into this damn mess in the first place. u had your 8 years and look what you did to our country. We are in debt because we are still paying for your war in iraq to find those “weapons of mass destruction” did you ever find them? lol
Christine O'Donnell First Amendment Separation Of Church And State … | The Daily Conservative
January 17, 2011 at 11:47 am
joe1cr
April 13, 2012 at 11:38 am
A Separation of Church and State”
So where would you find the phrase, “A wall of separation between church and state,” in any official government document?
Try the Soviet Constitution of 1977:
Part I Principles of Social Structure and Policy, Chapter 7, Article 52 [Religion],
“(2) In the USSR, the church is separated from the state, and the school from the church.”
This phrase has been in all the Soviet Constitutions since 1918.
In 1947, our Supreme Court found that phrase, not in a legal, controlling, or founding document, but in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802, 13 years after the Constitution was ratified by the states. The letter was written to the Danbury Baptist ministers to relieve their anxiety over a potential national denomination.
Jefferson used that phrase in the context of the 1st Amendment preventing a national denomination. Remember, the 1st Amendment is a prohibition against Federal Government intrusion into religion. It says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; …” In this context Jefferson was correct as the 1st Amendment creates “A wall of separation between Church and State” in order to prevent a national denomination.
Why did the Supreme Court use Jefferson’s words out of context in 1947? Jefferson had nothing to do with the writing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights because he was the Ambassador France when these founding documents were written. It is because this was as close as the judges could come to supporting their own agenda since there were no precedents for this decision and no foundations for it in our Constitution.
Jefferson’s actions speak volumes in this area. As president and acting D.C. School Board Chairman he chose the Holy Bible and Watts Hymnal to be used in the D.C. public schools. He also attended church at the U.S. Capitol building for the majority of his eight-year tenure as President. He had no understanding of the concept of “Separation of Church and State” as the courts are applying it today.