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I have just been
talking about a WAR ON CHRISTMAS in my last blog and now I hear about a WAR ON
RELIGION.
Rick Perry, the
presidential candidate, has slipped in the polls to a level that basically
gives him no chance at becoming president of the United States
To win in IOWA and
still have a chance at the presidency, Perry decided to appeal to the
conservative, religious and fundamentalist
nature of people in IOWA in a recent television ad.
In the ad that has
been seen by millions of people, he states that he is not ashamed to admit that
he is a Christian and adds that everyone knows there is something “wrong in
this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t
openly celebrate Christmas or pray in schools.”
“As president, I’ll
END OBAMA’S WAR ON RELIGION and I’ll fight against liberal attacks on our
religious heritage.”
In politics, many of
you may say that hey, you got to do whatever it takes to get elected; politics
are dirty and always have been, so?
Perry may very well get Iowans to vote for him because of the message in
the ad but as far as the rest of the country is concerned, he came off as being
plain dumb again and the reason?
School prayer has
been banned by the Supreme Court in 1962 as violating the First Amendment and
Obama had nothing to do with that. Obama did support allowing gays in the
military but how is that an assault on religious faith.
Perry’s ad has drawn
many parody videos that essentially make Perry out to be a joke. I like the one
where Jesus is shown saying “I’m ashamed to admit that you are a Christian.” - mainly because of all the hatred he harbors
against people that do not fit into his neat and narrow Christian mold. …love
thy neighbor anyone?
I have stated before
that our Constitution, expressly notes that religion can never be used as a
test for public office which means that one’s religion cannot be used as a
requirement for public office and yet in this country, it appears that to be
elected you have to profess some form of belief in the supernatural; no
atheists need apply.
Rick Perry takes
this religion phenomenon one step further and makes religion a top priority for
holding the presidential office and not just any religion; his form of religion
– fundamentalist Christianity.
This ad of his may
appeal to people in IOWA
But he is not alone;
Romney was defending his flip-flops on gay marriage and Gingrich actually took
a pledge to be faithful to his wife (if you can believe it) and of course the
abortion issue will be raised once again; Cain was pro-choice by the way.
BUT I will go back
to Perry’s charge that somehow OBAMA is waging a WAR ON RELIGION and I will ask
you how in the world can politicians just flat out lie and face no
consequences; well maybe they do face the consequence of losing the election
because of their behavior…at least we can hope.
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