Dr. Fleming on the Ground Zero mosque controversy

Ground Zero Mosque, Grade Zero Argument

Let us begin with the more obvious exercise in stupidity, the notion that the First Amendment to the Constitution of 1787 grants a blanket freedom of religion to be enforced by the Federal government.  Anyone who got through second grade by now is aware that it is not the First Amendment that is in play but the 14th, which was passed illegally for the purpose of giving civil rights (primarily involving contracts and wills) to former slaves.  Only the tortured metaphysics and imbecility of federal judges–no exceptions alive today that I know of-could twist this into anything relevant to the current case.  The purpose of the First Amendment was to prevent power-crazed national politicians from imposing their religious views on the rest of us in the states.