So some Tea Baggers decided to go to Colonial Williamsburg to converse with the Founding Fathers.
No, seriously.
But they are not always pleased with the answers they are getting, apparently, as it would appear that the costumed actors are thankfully educated about the historical men and women they are playing. More so then the Tea Baggers, it would appear.
They stand in the crowd listening closely as the costumed actors relive dramatic moments in the founding of our country. They clap loudly when an actor portraying Patrick Henry delivers his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech. They cheer and hoot when Gen. George Washington surveys the troops behind the original 18th-century courthouse. And they shout out about the tyranny of our current government during scenes depicting the nation’s struggle for freedom from Britain.
“General, when is it appropriate to resort to arms to fight for our liberty?” asked a tourist on a recent weekday during “A Conversation with George Washington,” a hugely popular dialogue between actor and audience in the shaded backyard of Charlton’s Coffeehouse.
Of course the correct answer is whenever you lose an election.
Sometimes, the activists appear surprised when the Founding Fathers don’t always provide the “give ’em hell” response they seem to be looking for.
When a tourist asked George Washington a question about what should be done to those colonists who remain loyal to the tyrannical British king, Washington interjected: “I hope that we’re all loyal, sir” — a reminder that Washington, far from being an early agitator against the throne, was among those who sought to avoid revolution until the very end.
When another audience member asked the general to reflect on the role of prayer and religion in politics, he said: “Prayers, sir, are a man’s private concern. They are not a matter of public interest. And nor should they be. There is nothing so personal as a man’s relationship with his creator.”
Hahahaha. You see, as much as these Tea Baggers love to preach about the Constitution, they know nothing about what is in it. Our Founding Fathers were not lunatic born again Eric Bodenweisers or David Andersons. Most of them were Deists, including Thomas Paine, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. They enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution not only the freedom to practice whatever religion you wanted freely, without interference from the government, but also the freedom from religion in prohibiting our government from establishing a national religion or excessively entangling itself with any religion. Our Founders also forbade religious tests being administered upon those who wished to serve in government (i.e. forcing someone to be Catholic or to believe in God).
But the Tea Baggers and right wing Republicans refuse to accept that, even from the mouths of the “Founding Fathers.”
More proof of their stupidity.