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The Constitution as Sacred Text, Kate Lovelady, Leader, 19-Feb-2012


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Ethical Humanism, as a form of liberal religion, does not have a sacred text and reads other traditions' sacred texts in the light of history, literary criticism, science, and individual experience and conscience. But what about the Constitution of the United States? Should that document, too, be treated as just another human-created text with good and bad ideas, or would such a liberal attitude toward the Constitution undermine the foundations of our democracy? How are differences between views on Constitutional issues attributable to different attitudes toward the Constitution as a secular Sacred Text? Or do attitudes toward the Constitution change to justify political desires?
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