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Related: About this forumAtheist Spills Details of Conservative ‘Values Voter’ Conference
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/christianity/depths-summit-what-i-learned-year-s-values-voter-confabSubmitted 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. Its 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 youre reading, not reality! Bachmann gushed. Come to think of it, it is like a novel a really bad science fiction novel.
Theres 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 were a Christian nation is beyond me, but Ill admit I didnt follow all of Kirks 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
just...wow. It's an alternate universe.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. Yes it is, and this guy's description is pretty hilarious.
jeepnstein
(2,631 posts)3. Any comments from them on Romney?
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:
Its OK to tell big, honking lies even if you are the nations virtues czar.
Former Education Secretary and Book of Virtues author William Bennett rewrote the events of last week in Libya. According to Bennetts version, Obama dithered while Mitt Romney boldly and decisively stood up for America. What about Obamas vow to bring the murderers to justice and Romneys statement based on inaccurate information that even many Republicans thought was crass? In the world of the virtue czar, that apparently never happened.
Former Education Secretary and Book of Virtues author William Bennett rewrote the events of last week in Libya. According to Bennetts version, Obama dithered while Mitt Romney boldly and decisively stood up for America. What about Obamas vow to bring the murderers to justice and Romneys statement based on inaccurate information that even many Republicans thought was crass? In the world of the virtue czar, that apparently never happened.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)5. More (Romney sent in a video message):
dimbear
(6,271 posts)6. Ooh. Mockery! Seemed to work pretty well. n/t
cbayer
(146,218 posts)7. Touche, dimbear.