Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck has continued the recent trend of candidates questioning the separation of church and state, going so far as to declare his opposition to the principle. AP reports:
Buck's opponents have been circulating a clip of him from a 2009 GOP forum in which he won applause from a conservative crowd at Colorado Christian University when he said the Constitution doesn't require church and state to be separate.
"I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution," Buck said on the video. "While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion."
You can watch the video for yourself here . In his attempts to explain, he argued that the government shouldn't choose to fund a secular soup kitchen while refusing to fund the Salvation Army just because of its religious affiliation. But, of course, as Think Progress notes, the Salvation Army gets lots of money from the government for just such services.
Meanwhile, Tea Party leader Judson Phillips is urging supporters to vote out Rep. Keith Ellison because he is Muslim.
Can the election be over already?
