11/16/2004 08:14:40 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

How about this

Not one to shy away from speaking his mind, Keillor proposed a solution to what he deemed a fundamental problem with U.S. elections. "I'm trying to organize support for a constitutional amendment to deny voting rights to born-again Christians," Keillor smirked. "I feel if your citizenship is in Heaven -- like a born again Christian's is -- you should give up your citizenship. Sorry, but this is my new cause. If born again Christians are allowed to vote in this country, then why not Canadians?"

The assumption is that Garrison Keillor of NPR was joking. He may need to change his title from "humorist" to "bomb maker". As Eugene Volokh noted (see above link), if another religious group was the butt of this joke, there would be more of a protest to it.

I have a better idea - let's change "born again Christians" to "educated beyond their intelligence liberal elites".

Kinda has a ring to it.

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