Zell Miller speaks out
Feb. 13th, 2004 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerSpeaking of an entertainer, who was exercising his free speech rights, however tastlessly, "He should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of this country on a rail. Talk about a good reality show, there's one for you."
On the separation of church and state:
On parties:
from a transcrip of his remarks in the Senate reported by Salon
You folks in Georgia grow 'em strong and pungent. This is a Democrat? What the hell are your Republicans like?
On the separation of church and state:
"Everyone today seems to think that the U.S. Constitution expressly provides for separation of church and state. Ask any ten people if that's not so. And I'll bet you most of them will say "Well, sure." And some will point out, "It's in the First Amendment."
Wrong! Read it! It says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Where is the word "separate"? Where are the words "church" or "state"?
They are not there. Never have been. Never intended to be.
On parties:
Dr. Rush was asked, are you a democrat or an aristocrat? And the good doctor answered, "I am neither. I am a Christocrat. I believe He, alone, who created and redeemed man is qualified to govern him." That reply of Benjamin Rush is just as true today in the year of our Lord 2004 as it was in the year of our Lord 1776.
from a transcrip of his remarks in the Senate reported by Salon
You folks in Georgia grow 'em strong and pungent. This is a Democrat? What the hell are your Republicans like?
