GOP chairman: I don’t really care for the word tolerance
Source: Raw Story
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus assured social conservatives on Monday that the GOP was not going to embrace tolerance as part of its rebranding efforts.
I dont know if Ive used the word tolerance, I dont really care for that word myself, he told the Christian Broadcasting Network. I dont have a problem with it, I just think it has another meaning politically that can go the other direction.
Priebus said Republicans would continue to oppose same-sex marriage and seek to ban abortion in the United States. He described both as foundational issues, but said Republicans needed to adopted a more tolerant tone.
If youre looking at the evidence, what you will see is a party that embraces life, a party that embraces marriage and a chairman that understands that theres only one sovereign God and that we ultimately arent dependent on what happens in politics, Priebus explained. What ultimately matters in our lives is that were salt and light in the world and that were honoring God in the things that we do every day. I get that. I think our party gets that and theres never been a movement away from that.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/22/gop-chairman-i-dont-really-care-for-the-word-tolerance/
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)moldy sack of balls.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts).....smelly turd!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)I prefer, 'the one percent solution'
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)as well.
Response to IDemo (Original post)
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LonePirate
(13,429 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,151 posts)If youre looking at the evidence, what you will see is a party that embraces life {but only before birth and says women are tools to be used by rapists to create unwanted babies}, a party that embraces marriage {but not for anyone that we don't approve of} and a chairman that understands that theres only one sovereign God {which means that all Muslims and every other non-christian religious believer is going to burn in hell} and that we ultimately arent dependent on what happens in politics {which is code for the exact opposite}."
alp227
(32,047 posts)Keep digging, keep shitting on rape victims and women in need of good reproductive health care, keep pushing the Jerry Falwell Moral Majority agenda, keep learning nothing from the Todd Akin debacle.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)Making the Republican party more of the home of the old, white, disgruntled Jeebus worshippers has been working so well too!
We need a legitimate opposition party though to keep the feet of sane politicians to the fire...the way it is now, they really do have me at "what? are you going to actually vote for HIM?!?!?" and simply being the lesser of two evils is a winning Democratic strategy in many places...
BrainMann1
(460 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)Response to IDemo (Original post)
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wordpix
(18,652 posts)salt and light?
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)Wednesdays
(17,398 posts)Let's make the hole bigger!"
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)practice "tolerance" aren't trying hard enough.
I suspect, however, he was headed in the other direction...
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)a-holes
LibAsHell
(180 posts)Wow, listen to this asshole.
Actually, Priebus, people ARE dependent on politics, unfortunately, and you're one of the ones in politics who is fucking things up for them.
It's like he's absolving himself of any accountability in his job.
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)Shove your wet dream of a Christian Theocracy where the sun doesn't shine !!!!
I am so sick of these religious freaks !!!!
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)He Never should have left his Play House.
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struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)mwb970
(11,364 posts)I dont know if Ive used the word tolerance, I dont really care for that word myself, he told the Christian Broadcasting Network.
A Christian who doesn't care for the word "tolerance" is like a teacher who doesn't care for the word "knowledge". Or an architect who doesn't care for the word "building".
Christianity is BASED on tolerance. So this clown says to the CHRISTIAN Broadcasting Network that he's not really sold on the idea. Nice outreach, Rancid.
tanyev
(42,594 posts)Good luck with that, Rinse.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)VWolf
(3,944 posts)I prefer ACCEPTANCE. Tolerance implies that you still hate something but are willing to grudgingly go along with it.
Of course, that's not what RNC-PR-BS was talking about.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)We have noticed. You have said what we all know. You are a sad example of human.
eppur_se_muova
(36,280 posts)Lugal Zaggesi
(366 posts)said the Greek Orthodox Reinhold Reince Priebus to the Southern Baptist Christian Broadcasting Network host,
while a Republican Mormon reading the interview asked his Republican Jewish friend if the Republican Party is perhaps too beholden to these "we know what God wants" social conservatives. His friend answered that his wife, an ex-Republican atheist, certainly thinks so.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Javaman
(62,532 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Reince Priebus...
rocktivity
daschess1987
(192 posts)or the fucking Freedom Fries. It might go over better than the homicide bomber bullshit, but it'll be a flash-in the pan like those friggin' fries.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)loose, foul turds, pretty well describes Rinse Peenus. Same old shit in fancy new wrappings, but the stench is just as powerful as ever. I know that there are lot of incredibly dumb people out there, but do they really expect this convince anyone with a functioning cerebral cortex?