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Yesterday, we reported on Oklahoma Republican Earnest Istook’s attempts to sneak God into the Constitution through a Trojan Horse amendment. Istook’s amendment purports to protect “religious freedom,” while actually working to enshrine Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as special religions that will receive particular government endorsement. Under Istook’s amendment, other religions would not have access to these special privileges. Over 100 members of the House of Representatives have signed on to this attempt to convert the United States of America from a democracy into a theocracy.

This afternoon, I am ashamed to see that a Democrat, Congressman Sanford Bishop of Georgia’s 2nd district, has joined with Earnest Istook on this crazy crusade. A few days ago, when Earnest Istook announced his intention to amend the Constitution of the United States to give certain religions special privileges, Sanford Bishop stood shoulder to shoulder with Istook as his partner in the effort.

Sanford Bishop is the kind of Democrat who gives the Democratic Party a bad name. It’s bad enough that Congressman Bishop is working with the far right fringe of the Republican Party to support crazy constitutional amendments. What’s even worse (although it’s less dramatic) is the way that Sanford Bishop is failing to serve the voters in his congressional district. Take a look at Sanford Bishop’s web page, for example, and you’ll see that, although we’re six months into the 109th Congress, Bishop’s staff has yet to issue a single press release online to help his constituents stay informed about what he’s been up to. Congressman Bishop’s idea of representing his constituents seems to be to keep them in the dark as much as possible.

Georgia’s 2nd district deserves better. Not too long from now, there will be a Democratic Party primary to select the 2006 nominee to run for Sanford Bishop’s seat in Congress. Sanford Bishop will almost certainly seek re-election. Please, please, please will some sane Democrat in Georgia’s 2nd district challenge Bishop in the Democratic primary? For the sake of the Democratic Party and for the sake of America, we need to get this right wing Democrat out of office.