Tom DeLay Says God "Wrote the Constitution"

Back to article

Comments

Might want to check your math there..

disintegrator on February 21, 2014 at 10:38 AM

God also wrote Slog.

Minneapolitan on February 21, 2014 at 10:39 AM

God wrote the First Amendment so He clearly has more sense than the Republicans.

fletc3her on February 21, 2014 at 10:56 AM

I have a truly nasty story about Tom Delay:

My dear friend's brother has a successful real estate business of apartment buildings in Houston. On his return flight into Houston with his gay partner, when the plane landed he was perp walked off the plane by the police and thrown in jail for a few weeks. Reason: He had written a letter to the editor of the newspaper listing the reasons Delay should not be in office. Delay then found some code violation of one of the apartment buildings and had his henchmen use that for the arrest.

Phoebe in Wallingford on February 21, 2014 at 10:58 AM

Modern Law reflects exactly 3 of the commandments: Don't Kill, Don't Steal and, I suppose if one is under oath, Don't Bare False Witness. These aren't Christian-specific rules. It's pretty standard rules that people of all faiths, including those without any faith, generally agree on. People who suggest that U.S. law is somehow based on the bible are absolute fucking idiots.

NopeNope on February 21, 2014 at 10:58 AM

Look at liquor prohibition, look at the differences between the OT and NT. God is clearly a flake who can't make up his mind.

sloegin on February 21, 2014 at 11:00 AM

"when we allowed our government to become secular"...DeLay doesn't believe any of this - he will say anything at all to keep the rubes believing his line of tripe. Why isn't he in jail yet anyway? Still working through appeals?

AFinch on February 21, 2014 at 11:07 AM

Tom DeLay also has a very annoying last name to type.

Phoebe in Wallingford on February 21, 2014 at 11:18 AM

There is absolutely no reason to even mention this guy'sname, let alone listen to him.

sarah70 on February 21, 2014 at 11:21 AM

And God also wrote THIS.

xjuan on February 21, 2014 at 11:32 AM

All the more reason to get rid of those pesky un-Christian amendments that followed after, which were written by the SECULAR DEVIL. Starting with #1. God wants you to own slaves. Well, OK, God wants ME to own slaves; he clearly wants YOU to be standing on the auction block. Me 'n' Tom, we got it under control here.

Fnarf on February 21, 2014 at 11:35 AM

Damnit - overturned conviction

AFinch on February 21, 2014 at 11:35 AM

Christianity -- even the moderate forms-- pretty much requires a person to believe in supernaturally inspired human authors and roughly equate that to God, author. DeLay sounds absurd, and he is, but the idea isn't a foreign one to many many people.

wxPDX on February 21, 2014 at 12:02 PM

The Christian god is too fucking stupid to write the constitution. The bible is proof of that.

Pope Peabrain on February 21, 2014 at 12:03 PM

Poor Tom. He never was the same after he started huffing that Terminix.

Lissa on February 21, 2014 at 12:09 PM

Relevant.

Urgutha Forka on February 21, 2014 at 12:09 PM

By this logic my 2 year service agreement with Verizon is divinely inspired.

Early termination fees ARE GODS WILL!

brandon on February 21, 2014 at 12:12 PM

Meth is a hell of a drug.

sirkowski on February 21, 2014 at 12:17 PM

Really phoning this stereotyping redneck hate in today, Paul. Might be time to get a little script that will generate strings of sentences ticking off Founding Fathers, dinosaurs, Moses, guns, Tea Party, racism, nuke 'em, etc. Just mix up the order and you have a new post for every time a Republican says something.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn on February 21, 2014 at 12:32 PM

I find it reassuring to be reminded just how stupid our enemies are.

seandr on February 21, 2014 at 12:34 PM

I wish God had written the constitution. The whole, "you cant be into materialism" thing might pay off for this country. One of the many reasons that Jesus was widely unpopular was that he had so little regard for property, and instead reserved all of those feelings for people's physical and spiritual health, even to the detriment of other people's property.

JonCracolici on February 21, 2014 at 12:51 PM

@18, it's comforting to know that somewhere in the afterlife, Ben Franklin is puttin' the moves on Sally Ride.

Fnarf on February 21, 2014 at 1:02 PM

Kolten Parker, at the San Antonio Express-News FTW: "James Madison, the lead author of the United States Constitution and the fourth president of the United States who died in 1836, could not be reached for comment."

http://www.chron.com/news/local/article/…

ssachita on February 21, 2014 at 1:11 PM

It fills me with a great sense of well-being to know that at least one important ex-Congressperson has never actually, you know, read the Constitution.

treacle on February 21, 2014 at 1:18 PM

And here I thought the dim-wit Paul Constant was going to lament the idiotic notion that the Constitution was inspired by a deity, rather than by some of the great classical philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, and Paine and the ideals of self ownership and property rights.

I should've known there would be no intelligent criticism here, just another excuse to regurgitate easy platitudes about the right.

Spindles on February 21, 2014 at 1:53 PM

I'd like to hear what the Preamble sounds like in the original Aramaic.

RainMan on February 21, 2014 at 1:54 PM

@28-
Anything in Aramaic sounds pretty much like Klingon.

dextrose dave on February 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM

@27, it's pretty hilarious to hear a right-wing fuckhead claim "self-ownership" as a founding principle of a country that was in fact founded upon the right to own others as chattel slaves.

As for property rights, the main principle of the Founders was more along the lines of "if we can steal it, it's ours". Our country was founded on piracy and intellectual property theft. If you could read, you might have an idea of where the rum and textile industries we started this country on the strength of were stolen.

Fnarf on February 21, 2014 at 2:46 PM

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

(bolding mine)
That's an excerpt from the Treaty of Tripoli, which was signed in 1797 by President John Adams, who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and served previously as the first Vice President of the United States.

venomlash on February 21, 2014 at 3:12 PM

@27: Haven't you caught whooping cough yet?

Lissa on February 21, 2014 at 3:44 PM

After reading some of these posts, I wonder how the two most ignorant republicans in the world are going to do in 2014? boner and mccnonell. Can they defend the republican party anymore?

longwayhome on February 21, 2014 at 7:42 PM

@18. That's not Jesus, It's Aragorn! Did no one notice the White Tree of Gondor on his chest?

Courgette on February 21, 2014 at 7:58 PM

@34,
Jesus and Aragorn are the same person.

Jesus turns into Aragorn by going into a phone booth and taking off his glasses.... I'm pretty sure I read that in the bible... Um, in the back somewhere.

Urgutha Forka on February 21, 2014 at 9:03 PM

@5 I appreciate your posts, I'm assuming that is not a resemblance of yourself on your moniker, it looks remarkably like Nancy Reagan. I'm of that age myself so I can relate to the senior citizen category. If I'm mistaken I apologize. Back to Tom DeLay, the republican party is full of racist, homophobic and generally ignorant people who don't acknowledge the existence of persons who are different than themselves.

longwayhome on February 23, 2014 at 8:12 PM

I must've missed the part of the Bible where black people are considered 3/5 of a person.

StockBreak on February 24, 2014 at 12:12 PM

Tom DeLay Says God "Wrote the Constitution"

Comments

Please wait...

Add a comment

Preview

Editors' Picks

Bombing Downhill with the Dead Baby Bike Club

The Queen Protester of Baton Rouge: An Art Review

The Starbucks Union-Busting Playbook

Why Seattle Doesn't Give a Fuck About Pedestrians

The Killing of the Pregnant Woman in Belltown Is Unacceptable

The Stranger’s 2023 Sex Survey Results

Support The Stranger

Comments

Please wait...

Add a comment

Preview

Editors' Picks

Just Can't Get Enough?

Sign up for our newsletter for news recaps, updates, and more!