Christian Right To Overthrow Government?

These people truly are nuts. Unable to get their bigoted marriage amendment, Christian right leaders are now considering installing the amendment themselves. I'm not kidding. Are you ready for this? They are considering using a rare Article V provision to attempt to call for an unprecedented Constitutional Convention. From the Evans-Novak Report via Think Progress:

Meeting after the big failure at the offices of the social-conservative Family Research Council, the top leaders of the marriage movement — Catholic, Protestant and Mormon leaders among others — discussed the possibility of an unprecedented Constitutional Convention. Two-thirds (34) of the state legislatures would have to call for such a convention — which could be done only with great difficulty. Even then, no one knows what such a convention would look like or what sort of amendments could result from it.

I hope they actually try this. Normal people simply aren't going to stand for it. It will simply put the religious right into the same room with the ones who claim our money has been illegal ever since we left the gold standard and the ones who claim the IRS is unconstitutional. I guess it was only a matter of time, after all, we gave 'em enough rope.