There is an idiot born on this earth and Sen. Coburn, a doctor, Senator, and spiritual advisor to Sen. Ensign is one of them.
Crooks and Liars:
During Saturday's Senate health care bill debate, Senator Tom Coburn held up a big graphic displaying a quote from Thomas Jefferson:
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical
This quote resided in the background while Coburn went on and an about earmarks, and abortion, and waste and fraud in the federal government.
Jefferson's actual words originated in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom:
to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical
The Statute goes on to say...
our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry, that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence, by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages, to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right, that it tends only to corrupt the principles of that very Religion it is meant to encourage.
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