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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Santorum: Charleston Shooting ‘Assault on Our Religious Liberty’
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rick-santorum-charleston-shooting-assault-on-our-religious-liberty/Of course, since the events location is a church, this complicates the matter further. Thats why Fox & Friends speculated on Thursday morning that the shooting targeted Christians, and its also the same reasoning that led 2016 presidential candidate Rick Santorum to argue the same thing on New Yorks AM 970....
Unlike Fox & Friends Steve Doocy, Santorum doesnt necessarily downplay whether or not the Charleston shooting was a hate crime. He does, however, emphasize the possible anti-religious nature of the crime, and considers it the tragedys defining quality.
All you can do is pray for those and pray for our country. This is one of those situations where you just have to take a step back and say we you know, you talk about the importance of prayer in this time and were now seeing assaults on our religious liberty weve never seen before. Its a time for deeper reflection beyond this horrible situation.
Zip it, Frothy Mixture!
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)I'd hope not, as it makes little sense, but that doesn't mean it won't.
Bryant
napkinz
(17,199 posts)see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026858449
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)is not the same thing as getting traction with a wide swath of people. But we will see. I suppose my more cynical side will note that man American racists are going to be eager for an explanation to this terrorist act that doesn't involve having to examine the murderous consequences of their racism.
Bryant
napkinz
(17,199 posts)and here comes Jeb!
Jeb Bush: 'I Dont Know' If Charleston Shooting Was Racially Motivated
see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026866045 (posted by RandySF)
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Textbook definition of "terrorism", and hate crime...from the suspects' own mouth and pen and deeds and symbols and role models....the evidence is overwhelming to the point of WTF? if anyone thinks otherwise.
I guess the entire GOP clown car agrees with Fox that Iowa GOP primary voters will be brainwashed, as they reliably can be, to agree with Fox.
But not his time...you can feel the difference...the evidence leads down a one way street.
#TakeThe FlagDown
Does he know that the Roof family members are christians - Lutheran?
CanonRay
(14,111 posts)First Jeb, now Shit-for-Brains
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)They were shot because they're Christian. I should have known.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)struggle4progress
(118,319 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)desperately needs to crawl into a fourth-dimensional hole and pull it in after himself.
Human sewage and a total waste of oxygen.