But he acknowledged that he would like to outlaw Muslim calls to prayer and, if possible, ban Islam itself, along with Buddhism, Hinduism and “other pagan religions.” He wants to treat abortion as murder and would deny the morning-after pill to rape victims.

He would also outlaw same-sex marriage and criminalize some sexual acts between consenting adults of the same sex.

“I just kinda boiled the two words down to a ‘Christian’ — I am that, I will not deny Christ — and I am a nationalist. I am an America-first, Tennessee-first person. So I didn’t think that was a detrimental term,” Fritts said, explaining his use of the term Christian nationalist.

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    7 hours ago

    Maybe he should read the constitution he has sworn to uphold before he sputters such nonsense.

    Maybe the potential GOP voters should do the same in order to understand that he is bullshitting them.

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      republicans give as much of a shit about the constitution as they do about the Bible… Too many big words and no pictures

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        There are illustrated Bibles. Is there an illustrated version of the Constitution? In simple English, designed for little kids, but therefore also suitable for politicians?