Nadler: Constitution "propaganda"

[Recitation of Constitution set in House renews debate over Founders' intentions by Jason Horowitz] "...For more than 200 years, Americans have revered the Constitution as the law of the land, but the GOP and tea party heralding of the document in recent months - and the planned recitation on the House floor Thursday - has caused some Democrats to worry that the charter is being misconstrued as the immutable word of God.

"They are reading it like a sacred text," said New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the outgoing chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, who has studied and memorized the Constitution with talmudic intensity.

Nadler called the "ritualistic reading" on the floor "total nonsense" and "propaganda" intended to claim the document for Republicans..." Recitation of Constitution set in House renews debate over Founders' intentions by Jason Horowitz

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "I think the reading is just to reiterate what this country stands for and to what we need to return to..."

I'd say "amen" but they'd accuse me of worshipping you.

Nadler: Constitution "propaganda"