LETTER: A Nation Of Laws? But Which Laws Are Those

2-26-10

To the Editor:
The Constitution?  Or the Bible?  Which human work should guide the lives of U.S. citizens?  For those Americans who still believe in the possibility of constitutional democracy, there is no real choice.  There are some citizens whose choice would be different.
In the U.S. today there are several groups, often working together and most well-funded by large corporations more concerned with profit than the public good, that lobby to oppose the laws limiting their profits.  Since the administration of George W. Bush added hard-core conservative judges to the Supreme Court and many other federal courts and made faith-based programs eligible for taxpayers’ money, Constitutional principles and the public good are at risk.
The inclusive title these Bible-oriented groups proclaim for themselves is “Christian Nationalists.”  Their goal is to win control of the entire country, to bring it under the rule of their special brand of “Christianity” and Old Testament Law.
 In other words, they want a theocracy, the same kind of government as the one the U.S. opposes in countries dominated by Islamic extremists.
WILLIAM F. ROBERTS
Otego