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1 HappyWarrior  Sun, May 8, 2011 9:42:50am

If we have members of Congress coming to David Barton for advice on history, then we know what’s wrong with Congress. Seriously David Barton is a man who thinks John Calvin is more important to US history than Thomas Jefferson. He is a theocrat.

2 elizajane  Sun, May 8, 2011 10:33:51am

Right Wing Watch has an entire page devoted to this Forbes clown, with many entries that will have your jaw permanently glued to the floor.
rightwingwatch.org

However, I will worry more about Barton when something drawn upon his “research” actually gets close to reaching a floor vote in the House. Most of the Google hits on “spiritual heritage resolution” are mockeries of it. Don’t Forbes’s constituents ever worry about the colossal waste of time that is their congressman? Is there full employment in certain regions of Virginia?

3 CuriousLurker  Mon, May 9, 2011 10:41:47am

re: #1 HappyWarrior

If we have members of Congress coming to David Barton for advice on history, then we know what’s wrong with Congress. Seriously David Barton is a man who thinks John Calvin is more important to US history than Thomas Jefferson. He is a theocrat.

It seems like Forbes is as well:

Forbes has made a major issue out of the “culture war,” by forming the Push Back Team, basically a fundraising measure for Forbes’ campaign. As part of this campaign, Forbes is the founder and chairman of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, formed for the purpose of encouraging prayer through legislation, and opposing laws such as those banning collective prayer led by school officials.

Recent proposed cultural legislation sponsored by Forbes includes the following:

• To designate the United States as a Judeo-Christian nation.

• To declare that “the Holy Bible is God’s Word”.

• To declare religion a prerequisite for freedom and reject “the notion that the laws and Constitution of the United States require the exclusion of God from matters of government”.

• To prevent the IRS from assisting the federal government in an “invasion into the health care lives of American citizens”.

• To declare that religion forms “the inseparable foundation for America’s representative processes, legal systems, and societal structures”.

4 HappyWarrior  Mon, May 9, 2011 2:21:58pm

re: #3 CuriousLurker

It seems like Forbes is as well:

Yeah, I’ve heard of him. Not from my part of the state fortunately but definitely someone I’d love to seen beaten in an election.


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