Ben Carson: “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.”
Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling often asks insightful questions in his political surveys that help us peer deeply into the Republican id. His latest foray, this time into the minds of GOP voters in Iowa,
is incredibly disturbing:
Do you think the religion of Islam should be legal or illegal in the United States?
Legal: 49
Illegal: 30
Not sure: 21
A majority of respondents are either unfamiliar with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution—the part that says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"—or they're aware of it but just don't care, or they somehow think it only protects certain religions. Whether ignorance or hatred is at work, these answers are alarming in the extreme.