Deport Candidates’ “Spiritual Advisers”

Jacques Berlinerblau has an interesting suggestion at the Washington Post’s “On Faith” that gave me a good laugh:

Time for the 28th Amendment

Although I had initially conjured up the idea only to reject it as undemocratic, perhaps it is high time that we as a nation, believers and nonbelievers alike, consider the establishment of the 28th Amendment. Its majestic words would read as follows:

Section 1. The right of presidential aspirants to discuss religion, invoke sacred texts, or mention God on the campaign trail is hereby repealed

Section 2. Whenever a religious figure endorses any candidate for the presidency that candidate must reject aforesaid endorsement.

Section 3. The Congress shall have power to have the offending religious figure immediately deported to France

My proposal is only partly prompted by the widely discussed remarks of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Rather, I am hankering for constitutional change mostly on account of the infelicities of Senator McCain’s recent Evangelical champions.

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