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cbayer

(146,218 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:32 AM Sep 2012

Atheist Spills Details of Conservative ‘Values Voter’ Conference

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/christianity/depths-summit-what-i-learned-year-s-values-voter-confab




Submitted by AUSCS on Sep 17, 2012

I spent Friday and Saturday observing the Values Voter Summit (VVS), an annual Religious Right gathering in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, the Heritage Foundation, Liberty University and other groups.

I attend every year. It’s educational! Here are some things I learned this year:

Radical Muslims are coming to get your mom.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) laid it all out for us: A super-secret entity called the Organization for Islamic Cooperation is soon going to impose an “Islamic enforced speech code” on America. Anyone who dares to criticize Islam is going straight to the pokey, First Amendment be damned. Of course President Barack Obama is in this thing up to his ears. “You would think this is a novel you’re reading, not reality!” Bachmann gushed. Come to think of it, it is like a novel – a really bad science fiction novel.

There’s a big monument in Massachusetts that proves the United States is a Christian nation.
Has-been TV star Kirk Cameron explained it all for us – in mind-numbing detail. The monument in question is the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Mass., and it was dedicated in 1889. Exactly how a monument built in the latter half of the 19th century proves we’re a Christian nation is beyond me, but I’ll admit I didn’t follow all of Kirk’s arguments – it was pretty early in the morning, after all.

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Atheist Spills Details of Conservative ‘Values Voter’ Conference (Original Post) cbayer Sep 2012 OP
wow... choie Sep 2012 #1
Yes it is, and this guy's description is pretty hilarious. cbayer Sep 2012 #2
Any comments from them on Romney? jeepnstein Sep 2012 #3
From the article: cbayer Sep 2012 #4
More (Romney sent in a video message): cbayer Sep 2012 #5
Ooh. Mockery! Seemed to work pretty well. n/t dimbear Sep 2012 #6
Touche, dimbear. cbayer Sep 2012 #7

jeepnstein

(2,631 posts)
3. Any comments from them on Romney?
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 12:04 PM
Sep 2012

The Radical Muslim conspiracy is last year's news. Everyone knows the death camps are already built and all that.

I want to know how a bunch of hard line conservative Christian voters are embracing Romney.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
4. From the article:
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 12:07 PM
Sep 2012
It’s OK to tell big, honking lies even if you are the nation’s “virtues czar.”
Former Education Secretary and Book of Virtues author William Bennett rewrote the events of last week in Libya. According to Bennett’s version, Obama dithered while Mitt Romney boldly and decisively stood up for America. What about Obama’s vow to bring the murderers to justice and Romney’s statement based on inaccurate information that even many Republicans thought was crass? In the world of the virtue czar, that apparently never happened.
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