Sunday on Brad Sowinski’s FB podcast “The Rinse,” [FN1] talk turned to IN’s Lt Gov’s comments about hate. [FN2, 2a] Accepted as truth, of late, is the erroneous notion that this was founded as a “Christian” nation. That was implicit in everyone else’s comments. 1/9

One more time: we were founded as “the first wholly secular state.” [FN3] You can’t find “god” or Jesus is in the Constitution. The far right has moved the ball down field, in part, via leaders, even progressives, of other…

An Article V [FN93] convention is a bad idea. C.J. Warren Burger said “there is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention [] to one amendment or to one issue, but [] after a Convention is convened it will be too late to stop.” [FN94] Judge 1/21

Robert Bork said why: “the original Philadelphia Convention went well beyond the purposes for which it was called.” [FN95] David Barton [FN96] disagrees and, in support of his opinion that the 1787…

The past few blogs have examined why an Article V convention [FN78] is a bad idea & refuted 2 out of 3 assertions that David Barton advances in support of calling a convention. [FN79] We ignore “Christian nationalists” like Barton at our own peril. 1/19

I. Barton distorts & lies about history. [FN80] I refuted his 1st [FN81] & 2nd [FN82] assertions.

His 3rd assertion is (as usual) w/o authority and is odd:

c) “history also shows that throughout the construction of…

David Barton advocates for an Article V convention. [FN64] His 1st contention, & 2nd sub-part in support are:

“1. The original Constitutional Convention was not a runaway convention.

b) “states ratified the Constitution after it was written” & thus “supported what occurred at the Convention” [FN65] 1/18

Simplistic approaches to history have fostered misconceptions about the Constitution. That means falsehoods have been spread that have eroded protections of our…