Really, don't they deserve it? Not all of them, I guess, but certainly the idiots at the Texas GOP convention.

Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell offered a greeting to delegates to the Republican convention. "It's great to be back in the holy land," the Fort Worth native said to the cheers of the party faithful....

The party platform, adopted Saturday, declares "America is a Christian nation" and affirms that "God is undeniable in our history and is vital to our freedom."

"We pledge to exert our influence toward a return to the original intent of the First Amendment and dispel the myth of the separation of church and state," it says.

And this isn't some random college professor that nobody had ever heard of. It's the platform of the Republican Party in one of our largest states.