Comments on: Will the Real Institute on the Constitution Please Stand Up?

By: James Ferguson

James Ferguson — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:26:31 +0000

Unbelievable! Obviously, these persons can’t hear themselves speak. Yet, this seems to be the thoughts of the Tea Party and its offshoots these days. I have to figure that guys like Peroutka and Lofton would have been much more comfortable with the Articles of Confederation than they are with the Constitution, which contradicts virtually everything they have to say.

By: JCF

JCF — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:26:31 +0000

God, I can read that racist sh*t w/o wanting to take a bath. Absolutely disgusting. [ “exert some control over a still primitive black population”: who was “primitive”? The lynch-mobs or their victims?]

By: John Lofton

John Lofton — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 23:17:33 +0000

What King’s view on what constitutes a just law proves is that even “one of the most grossly immoral hypocrites in American history” can, on occasion, by God’s grace, be right about something.

By: John Lofton

John Lofton — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:17:33 +0000

By: David M

David M — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Pat, I think you have misread Richard Wilmer, though I certainly want to let Richard speak for himself. I think Richard is calling into question the right-wing version of theocracy by which the specific commands of God (Thou shalt not…) are immediately translated into human laws.
What you call a left-wing version of theocracy is not theocracy in the normal understanding of that word. It doesn’t take the specific commands of God and make them civil laws. Rather — and I think this is what Richard is getting at — it takes the value of love (as represented by the two commands Jesus says sum up the law) and tries to work out what those might mean in society today. There is no promulgation of the laws to love God and love neighbor as civil laws per se. In short, I think your so-called left wing version of theocracy is a rhetorical device to obfuscate the sharp differences between living by biblical laws and living by biblical values (which are also widely held human values). Clever, but illogical.