This election season seems to be bringing out even more religion-based fearmongering than usual. In Colorado, former Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo has decided to launch a high-profile third-party bid for Governor under the Constitution Party, which as Beliefnet's Mark Silk points out insists on a religious basis for US law.
The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries.
Meanwhile, running for Governor of Tennessee as a Republican, Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey argues that the First Amendment's religious freedom protections should only extend as far as his own bias will allow.
"Now, you know, I'm all about freedom of religion. I value the First Amendment as much as I value the Second Amendment as much as I value the Tenth Amendment and on and on and on," he said. "But you cross the line when they try to start bringing Sharia Law here to the state of Tennessee — to the United States. We live under our Constitution and they live under our Constitution."
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"My concern is that far too much of Islam has come to resemble a violent political philosophy more than peace-loving religion," he said…
