General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans: Obama must defend 'Christian' values
WASHINGTON (AP) Leading Republicans on Thursday insisted that America's leaders must do more to defend Christian values at home and abroad, blaming President Barack Obama for attacks on religious freedom as they courted social conservatives expected to play a critical role in the next presidential contest.
"Those of us inspired by Judeo-Christian values...have an obligation to our country and to our fellow man to use our positions of influence to highlight those values," Florida's Sen. Marco Rubio said at a conference hosted by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group led by long-time Christian political activist Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed? Seriously?
http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-obama-must-defend-christian-values-192212780--election.html
Last I checked in with these TeapubliKKKan hypocrites and assorted Pharisees... we were supposed to be taking care of the poor, and those that have less than us. Ralph Reed, and the other countless Tea Hadists could give a red rat's ass about anybody but themselves.
msongs
(67,395 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)"This is God's word, this is only metaphorical, this is God's word, this doesn't count as it were different times back then, this is God's word, this is only metaphorical..."
hatrack
(59,584 posts)Not enough vomit in the world to capture the amount of Ralph Reed and his KKKristians inspire in me.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Which explains a lot about modern "Christianity".
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)James 5: 1-6
And now, you plutocrats, is the time for you to weep and moan because of the miseries in store for you! Your richest goods are ruined, your hoard of clothes is moth-eaten, your gold and silver are tarnished. Yes, their very tarnish will be the evidence of your wicked hoarding and you will shrink from them as if they were red-hot. You have made a fine pile in these last days, havent you? But look, here is the pay of the reaper you hired and whom you cheated, and it is shouting against you! And the cries of the other labourers you swindled are heard by the Lord of Hosts himself. Yes, you have had a magnificent time on this earth, and have indulged yourselves to the full. You have picked out just what you wanted like soldiers looting after battle. You have condemned and ruined innocent men in your career, and they have been powerless to stop you.
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)maryellen99
(3,788 posts)People do not think for themselves. I'll bet any money that in the last 3 elections a majority voted for the republicans because their pastor told them to.
riqster
(13,986 posts)tanyev
(42,552 posts)He's trying to, but Republicans want to impeach him for it.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)is immoral. They would stone Jesus to death if he came back.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)You point out some Republicans practicing Christian values, and we'll be glad to defend them.
<crickets>
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,406 posts)I think that he forgets what country he is living in.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)There's a lot of really easy money to be made off the rubes by pretending to defend some nebulous "values."
gtar100
(4,192 posts)Their hypocrisy is so transparent I wonder if they are honest among themselves in their private meetings about how much they want to screw over the world just to line their own pockets.
Christian values my ass. Where in the Bible is the passage "Do as I say, not as I do."
The actual Bible quote that is most fitting for them is, "You will know them by their works."
Yea, leading republicans, we see you plain as day for the selfish hypocrites that you are.
JustAnotherGen
(31,811 posts)It is WHAT he is.
And the fact that the Faith and Freedom Coalition is in bed with Marco Rubio - tells us all we need to know about what HE is.
God forbid (can I say that) he were to ever get close to the White House. Reed, Dobson, Pastor Warren - once you get into bed with them you tell me -
You are a dominionist with a clear vision to put America under a Christian Theocratic Control.
Triana
(22,666 posts)On the one hand they want Obama to shove "Christian" values down everyone's throats. On the other they're wailing about "attacks on Religious Freedom" (which they're actually complaining Obama doesn't do enough of).
Botany
(70,491 posts)The President and his family on the way to church on a Sunday morning.
"But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is
unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."
i am christian. i wish that these " people " would quit trying to represent me and others like me. most are coneniant christians. if they claim we are a crhistan nation. we arnt by the way we have been behaving lately torward our less fortuante folk. id like to see some of "them"do the walk and not the talk". they are either and neither , and will neve and ever represent me , just their votes and pocketbooks .
TRoN33
(769 posts)In medieval age, Judeo-Christians pillaged the villages, murdered elders, men, women, and even children. Marc Rubio yet again demonstrated his clueless about the history.