The Church is supposed to direct the government.
The government is not supposed to direct the Church.
That is not how our founding fathers intended it.
>> That was a United States congresswoman.
Just revealing how unbelievably ignorant she is about our system of government and
our constitution.
Yes, that was Lauren Bow Bert.
It's not like she's failed to embarrass herself publicly before, but
this really takes the cake because the separation of church and
state is in the First Amendment in the Constitution.
First Amendment to the Constitution specifically mentions that the federal
government shall not endorse religion and
I'll get to that in detail in just a moment.
But why don't we hear more from Bow Bert, unfortunately, with more context.
>> The reason we had so many overreaching regulations and
our nation is because the church complied.
The church is supposed to direct the government.
The government is not supposed to direct the church.
That is not how our founding fathers intended it.
And I'm tired of the separation of church and
state junk that's not in the constitution.
It was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like what they say it does.
>> So, she's wrong about everything.
And we'll address the stinking letter first.
I wanna go too graphic to here because she's referring specifically to a letter
that Thomas Jefferson wrote to a group of Baptists in Connecticut back in 1802.
Okay, so, what did he say in that letter?
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and
his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship,
that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
I contemplate with sovereign reverence, that act of the whole American
people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting
an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Thus building a wall of separation between church and state.
Now, the US Constitution doesn't specifically say separation of church and
state, but it implies that and specifically says that the US
government should not endorse a specific religion.
So, let's go to graphic for here, this is again from the United States Constitution,
which Lauren Barber as a United States congresswoman should probably put
a little time aside to read.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
So, literally what she was referencing in that
stinking letter is in the United States Constitution.
So, I mean, why are we even bothering, right?
Because it's not like she cares.
It's not like the people she's speaking to care.
They wanna live under theocratic rule.
I mean, Lauren Barber is a useful little tool and puppet for the religious right in
the country, but the religious right don't respect our constitution.
They never have, they never will,
just like they don't actually respect human lives.
I mean, I haven't seen a single unarmed black person that they haven't delighted
in watching cops shoot and kill.
But just putting that aside for a second,
just like the complete disrespect of our constitution while purporting
to be the most patriotic people in the country is hilarious to me.
>> Yeah, so look, it's possible that Republicans are all illiterate,
that they can't speak English, so they can't understand simple words.
What part of make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, do you not understand?
There's another clause in the constitution too,
it says there shall be no religious test.
Sorry, quote, no religious test shall ever be required as
a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
What part of that is unclear?
And they all go around, we shouldn't establish a religion and
there should be no religious test, that's why America was should be run by church.
No, seriously, can you guys speak English?
I'm not kidding.
Do you speak english?
Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth?
Have you ever read anything in your entire lives or is the entire right wing,
completely and utterly illiterate?
Yeah, that's so you got the First Amendment,
don't establish a religion like that means established a religion,
then you got the Second Amendment, it says, a well regulated militia there.
That means no militia and that you should have no regulations.
Do you speak English?
Okay, so, >> But Frank doesn't even matter, like,
I mean at this point with an ideologically driven extremist right
wing concert like Supreme Court, does it even matter what the constitution says?
I mean, we have seen several decisions in recent weeks that make it clear
that they have absolutely no problem intentionally misinterpreting
what our Constitution says to essentially expand public funds to
religious institutions in the form of private schools.
In maine, we see how they completely disregard what the Second Amendment
actually says in deciding cases involving gun legislation and
gun laws, as they did in new york.
I mean, does it even really matter what the constitution says?
I mean when you hear people like Senator Elizabeth Warren refer to
the Supreme Court as now, an illegitimate institution, I hear what she's saying,
because they're the whole point of the Supreme Court is to accurately interpret
the Constitution to determine whether or not laws that are being challenged our
constitutional, but they just fly in the face of that, they don't care about that.
They're just they were intentionally and specifically installed
into the court To carry out the desires of corporate America.
That's number one and right wing zealots, they were promoted by the Federalist
society to do exactly what they're doing today.
They don't care about what the Constitution says.
Yeah, so, that's of course true.
I mean, they said women don't have the right to control their own body, but
corporations are human beings who have all constitutional rights And
that money is speech so when a corporation gives $1 million bucks to a politician or
through a pack, they're just talking to them.
I mean they say all these things that are fantastical, that make no sense at all.
And everybody's Yeah yeah I'm not sure that makes sense.
Yeah that corporation bob that's bob.
He has inalienable rights endowed by his creator.
We're the creator of corporations everything.
The Supreme Court says junk this right wing courts a bunch of lunatics.
Now when it comes to this issue of religion though,
guys look if you want to live in a theocracy where you're ruled by church,
go somewhere else, leave our country.
Our country is America and it's not founded on that.
If you hear someone telling you otherwise, they're absolute liars.
So not only did we quote the constitution for you guys, we quoted Jefferson for
you guys,
Jefferson is the is the guy who wrote the Virginia constitution which the U.
S. Constitution was based on Madison
based on that.
But James Madison has his own quotes, he wrote the US Constitution,
here's graphic three.
The constitution of the US.
From James Madison himself, the author of the constitution.
The constitution of the US forbids everything like an establishment of
a national religion.
The law appointing chaplains establishes a religious worship for
the national representatives to be performed by the ministers of religion,
elected by a majority of them.
And these are to be paid out of the national taxes, that last part is saying
that James Madison, the guy who wrote the constitution, doesn't even want chaplains.
He thinks it's not right for
the government to pay for chaplains to give even a simple prayer because he said,
we said we would not establish and national religion.
Well, is it really all the founding fathers?
Well, remember there was john Adams and john Adams really disagreed with thomas
jefferson on a lot of things and, and he disagreed with Madison and some things.
Well, john Adams was president when we signed the Treaty of Tripoli.
What what did that say?
Let's go to graphic one.
The 1797 Treaty of Tripoli declared the quote,
the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.
Not only did john Adams sign that not a single person in the Senate objected.
And they were all founding fathers, None of them objected.
They thought it was so obvious we did not establish a religion.
This is not a christian nation.
And right, when you're looking at and go, the,
they met, it's a christian nation and we should establish a religion.
Well, you wanna look, I'm kidding around about how dumb they are.
They're not that dumb.
They just don't wanna believe they're lying ice.
So they just make excuses because they rather have a dictatorship where some
religious leader rules us all.
Look in certain ways, they're smarter than democrats because
they're willing to do anything and everything,
including disregard our constitution to get what they want They want,
the aquatic rule and they'll do anything to get theocratic rule.
And guess what?
Over the last 50 years, they've been organizing strategizing and
working real hard to get us to where we are today, where women's reproductive
rights have been stripped away from them by the Supreme Court
justices that they have effectively installed in the nation's highest court.
So I don't think they're dumb at all.
In fact, while they've succeeded through their strategies,
democrats have no strategy right now at all at all.
Just something to keep in mind.