The news blogs are all atwitter with the revelation that, while at the Super Bowl, Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. once attended a party at which some Playboy bunnies were also in attendance. Stars and garters, oh my.
But very few people seem to care that Ford has declared his platform of “putting God First” when in the Senate, or that he has made a habit of handing out cards at rallies with his name on one side and the “Ten Commandments” cobbled together out of the Biblical book of Exodus. This is the Exodus which proclaims “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” which should be of interest to non-Christian residents of Tennessee, and the same Exodus which sets up a moral system by which one ought to deal with one’s slaves.
Now, I’m no Senator, but I do know that Article VI of the United States Constitution specifies that “no religious test” shall be applied for public office. But hey, why let a little thing like the Constitution get in your way when you’re putting God — your God — first?
