Sharron Angle's Distorted View of the Constitution

Sharron Angle is the gift that keeps on giving. According to Angle, the First Amendment does not have a separation of church and state.

Ralston: The Separation of Church and State arises in the Constitution.

Angle: No, it doesn't...

Ralston: Oh, it doesn't?

Angle: No, it doesn't.

If what Angle says is true then the federal government can make laws mandating school children must read the Qur'ān and practice Buddhism. Thomas Jefferson foresaw this problem and believed there should be a "wall of separation" between organized religion and the government. Below is an excerpt of Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.

Jefferson and Thomas Paine didn't sign the Constitution, but had great influence in drafting what would now be our nation's laws. Angle's ignorance of the Constitution matters. As a Senator, she will have a vote for future Supreme Court Justices and federal judges. Senator Angle will help draft laws that will affect the Constitution. It is painfully obvious Angle doesn't have the intellectual capacity to be a United States Senator.