GOP Pol Defends Slavery

"If slavery were so God-awful, why didn’t Jesus or Paul condemn it, why was it in the Constitution and why wasn’t there a war before 1861? The South has always stood by the Constitution and limited government. When one attacks the Confederate Battle Flag, he is certainly denouncing these principles of government as well as Christianity." -  GOP Arkansas state Rep. Roy Mauch, in a letter to a local newspaper. Think Progress notes that Mauch has been endorsed by the NRA.