Religion & Law

This post, by Vox Nova's Blackadder, is well worth a read.  A bit:

Conservatives who advocate originalism or textualism when in comes to interpreting the Constitution are sometimes accused of advocating a ?sola scriptura? view of the Constitution. Since such charges are typically made by Catholics to Catholics, the allegation has a certain sting to it, as if holding a particular theory of constitutional interpretation someone made one a bad Catholic.

Yet there needn?t be anything inconsistent about interpreting the Constitution in one way and the Bible in another. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, given to us for the salvation of souls; the Constitution is a legal document. What?s sauce for the goose ain?t necessarily sauce for the gander in such a context. . . .