What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

The wise do not investigate such silliness.

But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.

[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?