mrklutz
January 20, 2011, 5:37pm
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Bah! Amateurs!
When Alabama politicians start lurking in the bushes in ambush for people, then maybe they will be considered as contenders for Michele Bachmann’s title as Grand High Poobah of the Batshit Crazies.
If Alabama wants the crown of shame they’ll have to try harder to pry it from our frozen fingers.
Yeah, Bachmann alone brings Minnesota’s state crazy quotient way up.
BigT:
The only thing this politician did was not act like a politician, and instead taylored his speech to his audience, without thinking about the fact that other people would hear about it, and inevitably take it out of context. It’s the type of gaffe I expect from a new politician, and nothing worth getting upset about.
You may have a point there. The fact that he’s a Republican who won an election is plenty for me.
Well, the fact that you happen to be on the right side of the line he drew might possibly be obscuring your view just a smidgen.
:rolleyes:
Religion should be treated like a penis: Don’t take it out in public, and don’t force it down your children’s throats.
RickJay
January 20, 2011, 7:32pm
125
Contrapuntal:
He was simply stating his faith in a religious ceremony in his own church. It seems like you folks are all knicker twisted not for what he believes , but that he has the audacity to assert his beliefs , said beliefs being no secret to any fucking person who has a fucking clue what the fucking Governor is all about. Why all this outrage now? Would you rather he lie about it?
It’s not anyone else’s fault if his beliefs conflict with his ability to do his job.
But would it actually have been a lie for him to say “All people are my brothers and sisters, of any faith” or some such thing? Would it actually have been dishonest of him to NOT divide his constituents into those he felt worthy and those less worthy? What part of Christianity requires that perspective? What lie would be be perpetuating by not saying what he’d said?
If I didn’t like my sig so much, I would steal that.
Castigated ? If he said that (not that he would) he might get assassinated . People would lose their minds if he said that.
Contrapuntal:
It’s is no secret that he is an Evangelical Christian. It is no secret that Evangelical Christians, as an element of their faith, believe that it is their job to convert everyone who is not an Evangelical Christian. He was simply stating his faith in a religious ceremony** in his own church.** It seems like you folks are all knicker twisted not for what he believes , but that he has the audacity to assert his beliefs , said beliefs being no secret to any fucking person who has a fucking clue what the fucking Governor is all about. Why all this outrage now? Would you rather he lie about it?
It was not in his own church, it was in a church that MLK, Jr. started his career as a pastor. It was MLK day and the Governor had been sworn in earlier that day. It wasn’t some private event and he was representing the people of Alabama in attending.
I guarantee you that if you strolled into the Governor’s church on a Sunday, you could tell that you weren’t in the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church .
First Babtist Church Tuscaloosa
Sampiro
January 20, 2011, 8:38pm
129
Probably just nitpicked: “technically they’re your *half-*brothers”.
[QUOTE= Inigo Montoya]
This was in a black church, where it’s rumored their religions are a lot bigger.
… and they pray like this.
monavis
January 21, 2011, 12:46pm
131
Hey, we would all be half brothers…Obama is as much white as he is black!
SteveG1
January 22, 2011, 3:45pm
132
Contrapuntal:
Right. No religious bigotry in the north, now is there?
We’re rednecks, we’re rednecks
At least WE didn’t elect that asshole, did we.
Diogenes_the_Cynic:
How about if Keith Ellison. Muslim Congressman from Minnesota, had said, “if you are not a Muslim, you are not my brother.”
This wouldn’t phase me a bit, and I’d readily agree with him. I also wouldn’t take it to mean that I am somehow a second class citizen in his eyes because I’m not a Muslim.
It doesn’t mean we can’t hang out, break bread, be friends, or love each other. It just means spiritually, we are members of two different families.
Not a big deal.
leander
January 23, 2011, 2:54pm
134
PandaBear77:
This wouldn’t phase me a bit, and I’d readily agree with him. I also wouldn’t take it to mean that I am somehow a second class citizen in his eyes because I’m not a Muslim.
It doesn’t mean we can’t hang out, break bread, be friends, or love each other. It just means spiritually, we are members of two different families.
Not a big deal.
YOU may feel that way, but one would hope that you would have the good sense to understand that most people would not feel the same way.
SteveG1
January 23, 2011, 3:12pm
135
Sampiro:
He said this on his FIRST DAY IN OFFICE. And he looks like Montgomery Burns to boot… all I can say is
SUCK IT ARIZONA AND SOUTH CAROLINA!!! Our HOME OF THE NATION’S CRAZIEST AND MOST EMBARRASSING ELECTED OFFICIALS Belt is right now singing Sweeeeeet Home Alabama…Lord I’m comin’ home to you!!
Arizona must be a wonderful place. It’s chock full of the nicest people ever.
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/01/shawna_forde_arizona_murder_ca.php
Minuteman leader Forde, a onetime Everett city council candidate, and Jason Bush, also wanted for two murders in Wenatchee, are facing the death penalty with a third member of her rebel border-watch band. They are charged with the first-degree murders of a Mexican man, Raul Flores, and his daughter Brisenia, and the attempted murder of the man’s wife, on May 30 in Arivica, Arizona. Forde is accused of masterminding the slayings to finance her border-watch group and grow it into a Blackwater-like organization, running mercenary missions south of the border.
I guess Arizona is the place to be, if you’re fucking crazy.
