The speaker is Bryan Fischer of the conservative Christian group the American Family Association.
I cannot begin to tell you how sick and tired I am, generally, of the constant injection of religion into politics. It has no place there, period, yet every clip I’ve seen on the Tee Vee Machine today has been about America being “a Christian nation”; whether Mormonism is a cult or not a cult; evangelical Christianity; President Obama’s religious beliefs, and how all of that holier-than-thou b.s. affects the GOP presidential race.
Forgive my cranky bluntness, but I’m truly fed up.
Honestly, if I hadn’t seen the above video posted at TPM, I’d have sworn it was from Funny or Die. Except for one thing: It’s really not funny. Not at all.
At the Value Voters Summit, Dr. Robert Jeffress, a Texas pastor, had a holier-than-thou thing or two to say about a thing or two. Wait just a minute, doesn’t the Bible say it’s not cool to judge others?
Jeffress took the stage, as promised, and repeated his statement, adding to it. Perry was a “genuine follower of Jesus Christ!”
Perry walked onstage and thanked Jeffress for the endorsement.
“He really knocked it out of the park!” [...]
After the speeches, Jeffress walked through the hotel doing interview after interview about his take on Mormonism.”Article 6 of the Constitution says government can impose no religious tests,” he said. “But private citizens can impose all the tests they like!“
Michele Bachmann, you kidder, you. Always cracking wise, always there with a quip, always joking about stuff that her very own god says to her. Oh wait, she’s not?
That line tying God to the recent earthquake and to Hurricane Irene? Just kidding! Just a joke! Isn’t that just like her? Oh wait, it’s not? What about all those other times she told us “God made me do it”?
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s bizarre statements regarding Social Security being an illegal Ponzi scheme and the unconstitutionality of federal laws such as those governing food safety, the minimum wage, child labor and environmental protection defy belief.
If this man is elected to the White House, we may look forward to conditions prevalent in the 19th century, when people were apt to eat tainted food, often worked for a pittance and many children were sent into the mines to work. Let’s not even begin to imagine more rivers filled with factory waste.
Is this an absurd scenario? Not at all, and we should be very afraid.
Anneke Mendiola
Santa Ana
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I have no problem with Texas going its own way and embracing Perry’s philosophy. Do away with unconstitutional regulations on food safety, environmental protection, child labor and the minimum wage. Protect citizens of the state from the failed socialist policies of Social Security and Medicare.
Of course, other states will have the right to refuse to do business with Texas if they believe, for example, that importing agricultural products from Texas could present a health problem, or they object to buying products manufactured with child labor.
Let’s see what happens after a few years. I’d bet we would have to build a wall to keep Texans from illegally crossing into the United States to take advantage of some of those government handouts.
Now Steve Benen finds one more thing to pin on Cowpoke Rick, via a book Perry wrote [sic] in 2008 called On My Honor, in which he has the unmitigated gall to assert:
“Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink… And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.” [...]
He wrote that he is “no expert on the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate,” but that gays should simply choose abstinence.
You read that right: He actually compared being gay to being an alcoholic. That being attracted to someone, that falling in love with someone of the same gender is the same as an addiction, a disease, and/or substance abuse.
Then he was mentally ill enough to suggest that gay people should refrain from having sex… never make love… go their whole lives without engaging in sexual relations… suppress all urges… wear a big ol’ collective chastity belt. In other words, he believes that people like Marcus Bachmann should stick to what he himself was caught on camera doing: eating corn dogs.
This crackpot should not be allowed to run for or hold office.
Now he’ll probably distance himself from his own words again by saying that, hey, that was then and this is now, that he really didn’t mean anything he wrote only 3 years ago, and that it “is not meant to reflect the governor’s current views.”
If even Karl Rove bashes his own party’s flavor loon-of-the-month, you know it’s bad.
Yes, Ricky, this economy is just an excuse to experience a “great revival” for those of us who are lousy investors and apparently need to go back to “biblical principles”.
This from the same folksy, spiritual, pious, sweetheart of a guy who Taegan tells us set a new record for executions:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry “brings to the presidential race a law-and-order credential that none of his competitors can match — even if they wanted to,” the Washington Post reports.
“In his nearly 11 years as chief executive, Perry, now running for the GOP presidential nomination, has overseen more executions than any governor in modern history: 234 and counting. That’s more than the combined total in next two states — Oklahoma and Virginia — since the death penalty was restored 35 years ago.”
I loved this comment under the BoingBoing post:
[A]nd the worst part is he got the story wrong. Pharaoh created a Big Government grain hording initiative during the seven years of plenty so he would have enough to feed his people during the seven years of famine. ie: he taxed the rich to establish a social safety net. if you’re gonna pander, at least get the story right, asshole.
And this one:
“I happen to think our greatest days are ahead of us” (the Rapture, for example.)
“Biblical principles”? You mean like. . . helping the poor and the sick a la Jesus?
Why anyone would listen to a word this “cowboy with French cuffs” (as Cliff Schecter describes him in his excellent piece here) has to say is beyond me. But do heed Cliff’s warning:
Rick Perry is dangerous. He is a dominionist,meaning the Biblical Law, to him, supersedes that of the US Constitution. He possesses slightly less gravitas than a half-eaten bowl of chili. The amount of hairspray he uses might actually be a threat to national security. And as conservative intellectual Bruce Bartlett put it, he’s kind of an “idiot”.
Perry’s also already shown his willingness to do anything to win, no matter how potentially damaging to the US and its economy – starting his campaign with an attack on the patriotism of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (specifically intended to hamstring his economic response to this crisis), who you may remember was originally put in that job by none other then George W Bush. [...]
Make fun of him, because it’s enjoyable!
But don’t for a second think this is the way to beat him in a race for the presidency. The way to do that is to tell the truth about him.That he’s as fake as a three-dollar bill, all hat and no cattle, or to put it in a language Perry can understand – he’s Blazing Saddles, not The Unforgiven.
I’m still waiting to see who else enters the GOP stable of ’12 players. Paul Ryan? Ann Coulter? Kidding! I’m kidding about Coulter! Or am I… ?
No, I am, but not about Paul Ryan.
However, we do know that extremist, minimum-wage-job-creator, Armani-suit-wearing good ol’ boy “folksy” fraud, G.W. Bush-on-steroids, religious fanatic, hypocridiot Rick Perry has stepped in… and stepped in it, according to Boston.com.
He was in New Hampshire, undoubtedly posing with one leg up on something or other, when some protesters confronted him:
“Ask him why he doesn’t believe in science,” the mother [of a little boy] prompted. [...]
“I’m not a fan of cap and trade,” Perry said, adding that he advocates “letting the private sector make those decisions.”
“I said, ‘We left Wall Street to the private sector, and look what happened,’ ” Fuller Clark said later. She said she was disappointed by what she called Perry’s “contradictions.”
A few also expressed annoyance at Perry for not answering their questions. Please go read the rest here.
Feeling cocky because Perry is such a phony dim bulb, Dems? Well don’t. Reagan and Bush were fraudulent, “dumb cowboys” too, and they ended up in the White House.
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