Faith V. Politics

I'll start of by saying what we already know; the republican party has a strong monopoly on the Evangelical vote. The reasons are deeper than abortion, taxes, social policies, guns, fiscal policies, just war theory and the other niche issues of the day. The issues stem from Evangelical approach to reading and textual criticism. Evangelicals approach the constitution, the Bill of Rights, and our country's other "sacred" texts in the same way the approach their faith's sacred texts.

Evangelicals have a crush on the politics of Antonin Scalia an originalist supreme Court Justice. We like Scalia because treats the Constitution the same way we treat the Bible. We chant the Bible Can't mean what it never meant while we argue the Constitution has a fixed and knowable meaning, which was established at the time of its drafting. When we cut to the chase the two theories are the same, what it was supposed to mean 2000 or 200 years ago it must mean today. On the flip side Liberal Christian treat the constitution the same way they treat the Bible.

To be clear I fall to the conservative side of the scale but I'm not comfortable approaching my countries constitution the same way I approach my faith's sacred text. For starters they inspiration of the documents is different. The constitution is a document for men by men while the Bible is God's Holy Word. Beyond that The drafters of the constitution are human thus the document is limited to human ability and faults. The elevation of the Constitution helps lead to some questionable theology. Since we see the Constitution as inspired the belief that America is the new Israel gains support it shouldn't have.
I can't assign the same place in my life to a document by a group of men with questionable faith as I do to the Bible. It's not likely I'm going to change how I approach the Bible so I'll have to change how I approach the Constitution.