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cbayer

(146,218 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 10:51 AM Sep 2013

Dana Perino, Former Bush White House Official, Tells Atheists To Leave The Country

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/dana-perino-former-bush-white-house-official-tells-atheists-leave-country?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+opposingviews%2Fmain+(Opposing+Views+-+Issues%2C+Experts%2C+Answers)




By Jonathan Vankin, Fri, September 06, 2013
The former press secretary to President George W. Bush has demanded that atheists who object to the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance should leave the country.

The comments by Dana Perino, who served as chief spokesperson for Bush and face of the White House daily press briefings from 2007 to 2009, came during a discussion of a Massachusetts lawsuit opposing the pledge. Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments in the case Wednesday.

The case, brought against the Acton-Boxborough School District by atheist parents who are identified only as “Doe” in the lawsuit, seeks to end the daily recitation of the pledge because reciting a daily pledge containing the phrase “under God” is a form of indoctrination to a religious viewpoint that “invalidates atheism,” and therefore violates the constitutional ban against the government respecting an establishment of religion.

The Fox News political roundtable program “The Five” took up the issue of the lawsuit Wednesday as well. Perino (pictured), a participant in the discussion, when asked how she felt about arguments which challeng religious references in public, government-sponsored ceremonies, said she was “tired of them.”

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sgtbenobo

(327 posts)
8. Remember she had to "have my husband....
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 10:59 AM
Sep 2013

....tell me what the Cuban missile crisis was." The stoopid burns us.


Carry on.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
9. Yeah...
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 11:00 AM
Sep 2013
Perino: I Didn't Know What The Cuban Missile Crisis Was

Still looking for that last-minute Christmas gift for White House press secretary Dana Perino? May we recommend a gift certificate for the forthcoming book on the Cuban Missile Crisis by our colleague Michael Dobbs, "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War," due out next summer?

Appearing on National Public Radio's light-hearted quiz show "Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me," which aired over the weekend, Perino got into the spirit of things and told a story about herself that she had previously shared only in private: During a White House briefing, a reporter referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and she didn't know what it was.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/10/perino-i-didnt-know-what-_n_76062.html



CanonRay

(14,104 posts)
6. Well Dana, go out and form your own little Christo-Facist state then
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 10:57 AM
Sep 2013

and enjoy when they stone you for that neckline.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
13. Actually she sits on the Broadcasting Board of Govenors as a 2009 Obama apppointment.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 11:15 AM
Sep 2013

FoxNews is her side gig.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
15. Oh no, not the Broadcasting Board of Govoners ... how terrible.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 11:31 AM
Sep 2013

She's definitely going to destroy it .... but that's probably part of Obama's secret plan anyway.

The stuff you bind up over is hilarious.

longship

(40,416 posts)
11. Dumbness is strong with that one.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 11:14 AM
Sep 2013

Apparently she never took civics in high school. She certainly doesn't understand the first amendment.

And yes, many Christians often play the persecution card in cases like this. Either that or the Christian country card.

Meh! Too bad for them.

I hope this case strikes out the "under God" clause.

Actually, I don't like the pledge at all. I never say it.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
12. Obama appointed her to the Broadcasting Board of Governors in 2009. She's still there.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 11:14 AM
Sep 2013

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has tapped a former top aide of his predecessor George W. Bush to a key post on a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting.


Dana Perino, the first Republican woman to serve as White House press secretary, was appointed late Wednesday to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).


http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/obama-appoints-loyal-bushie-dana-peri

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
17. She officially left Jan 1, 2013 after missing 10 meetings in a row
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 11:54 AM
Sep 2013

and most of the phone conferences.

Apparently this board is highly dysfunctional and there were some (failed) attempts to make it bipartisan.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
18. Why not just change the pledge back? To its previous form?
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:12 PM
Sep 2013

In 1923, the National Flag Conference called for the words "my Flag" to be changed to "the Flag of the United States", so that new immigrants would not confuse loyalties between their birth countries and the United States. The words "of America" were added a year later. The United States Congress officially recognized the Pledge for the first time, in the following form, on June 22, 1942:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The phrase "under God" was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance June 14, 1954, by a Joint Resolution of Congress amending §4 of the Flag Code enacted in 1942

I'm tired of her too. She can leave.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
19. I think that's the best solution and hopefully one the court will come to
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:18 PM
Sep 2013

at least for the state.

Hopefully it will spark a larger debate and further change.

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