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Northern Exposure’s Janine Turner has turned to writing. She is the founder and Co-Chair, along with Cathy Gillespie, of the, uh, conservative leaning website Constituting America. The tagline at the top of the site (attributed to Turner) states, “An enlightened America regarding her roots, her basis, and her thesis is the key to America’s pertinent survival.” While I think Constituting America is a bit right-wing for Rush Limbaugh me, it is a great example of women using their talents and sharing their opinions in an intelligent and appropriate forum.
Although best known as Maggie O’Connell, Turner has evidently been politically active for some time.
From her bio:
[Turner’s] op-ed commentary articles have been published in media outlets such as FoxNews.com, and she has appeared on numerous television and radio talk shows including Fox and Friends, Hannity, Glenn Beck, The O’Reilly Factor, Neil Cavuto, Larry King Live, Laura Ingraham, William Bennett, Lou Dobbs and the Steve Gill Show.
Janine proudly served as a member of President Bush’s Council on Service and Civic Participation and continues to encourage volunteerism across the country. She has volunteered and raised money for numerous charitable efforts such as Boys & Girls Clubs of America, My Sister’s Place, the Pregnancy Resource Council, Texas Ballet Theatre, the Lois Weber Film Collection, the USA Film Festival, the Inwood House, and Single Parent Outreach of Richland Hills Church of Christ. She is a sought after public speaker, and has inspired audiences in locations such as Saddleback Church, Texas A&M, Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County, and at breast cancer events, single parent outreach and Special Olympic events.
While not a household name, Gillespie also has quite a resume.
She has served as Chief of Staff to United States Congressman Joe Barton, as a Commissioner on the President’s Commission on White House Fellows, and as the Director of the Bush Cheney ’04 W Stands for Women.
Cathy is active in a number of political and charitable organizations, serving on the board of Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services, the Joe Barton Family Foundation, and the Board of Governors of Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, Virginia. She has volunteered and raised funds for the Barbara Bush Literacy Foundation Maryland Celebration of Reading, Independent Women’s Forum, Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Histiocytosis Association of America, and the Texas State Society.
Like any good bureaucratic endeavor, Constituting America has a mission statement which is, in my opinion, kind of sneaky. Basically it starts out with blazing patriotism rhetoric so that, by the time you reach the snarky digs at the left-wing (accusations that liberals view the Constitution as “antiquated,” for example, or “devalue freedom”), you’re singing “The Star Spangled Banner” so loudly that you won’t realize it.
Yeah, here it is:
The mission of Constituting America is based upon this principle: America will not and cannot survive unless her citizens, her children, and her students, are educated about the validity, necessity and Providential Divinity of the Constitution.
The Constitution should not be dismissed or relegated to obsolescence, for as surely as this is done, democracy will meet its demise. Knowledge of the contents of the Constitution and the values of our founding fathers is pivotal to enduring these challenging times.
A renewed, rekindled enthusiasm and a patriot’s desire for the understanding of our Constitution begins with its accessibility. Challenging the mindset of those who consider our Constitution to be antiquated, is our mission. An enlightened America regarding her roots, her basis, and her thesis is the key to America’s pertinent survival. Americans have rights. Americans must have knowledge to understand them.
Constituting America’s mission is to reach, educate and inform the youth and all citizens through modern technology and modern means, because we must not let those who devalue freedom dominate the debate.
There are actually some really neat parts to Turner and Gillespie’s site, such as an essay contest (billed as being “Teacher’s [sic] Tools”) and using The Federalist Papers to frame their blog. While I disagree politically with Turner (her op-eds include “Your Vote is Your Voice” and “What Would Our Forefathers Think of America Today”), she and Gillespie have certainly put a lot of work into this venture. Their website is interactive and colorful (if characterized by quite a few grammatical errors), and they’ve obviously put a great deal of thought into what they’re writing. I mean, it’s not like Sarah Palin just spouting off … these women actually put a tremendous amount of effort into reminding Americans of the relevancy of the U.S. Constitution. It’s their insistence on fitting everything into the Constitution’s giant footprint that scares me a bit … it would be like trying to follow the Bible to the letter in 2010.
Anyway, it’s an interesting venture for two obviously passionate women. Check out the website if you get a chance and share your thoughts.
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What the hell is Providential Divinity?
It’s really good if you make it with walnuts.
Normally, I consider this a cop-out, but I was literally ROTFLMAO over this, Joey ;-)
From what I understand,she really knows her constitutional history. I’m going to spend sometime on her site tomorrow. We need to get back to our constitution,its a perfect guideline. If our founding fathers were alive today,they’d be shitting bricks on how we have distorted the role of government. I’m glad that the conservative party has started to grow a pair,funny how it happens to be on the women. Oh how ironic!
I agree.. Sanity and reality should prevail. We had a great country till the looney woo-woo’s took over.
“Constituting America” made me think “Prostituting America”
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