GOP buttons on their shirts and faith on their sleeves

Elidor

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Mon Jun-05-06 12:05 AM
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GOP buttons on their shirts and faith on their sleeves

Republican convention draws religious conservatives

By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News

SAN ANTONIO � Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell offered a greeting to delegates to the Republican convention. "It's great to be back in the holy land," the Fort Worth native said to the cheers of the party faithful. For the 4,500 delegates at last week's biennial gathering, it was both an expression of conservative philosophy and religious faith, a melding of church and state.

At Saturday morning's prayer meeting, party leader Tina Benkiser assured them that God was watching over the two-day confab. "He is the chairman of this party," she said against a backdrop of flags and a GOP seal with its red, white and blue logo. The party platform, adopted Saturday, declares "America is a Christian nation" and affirms that "God is undeniable in our history and is vital to our freedom."

"We pledge to exert our influence toward a return to the original intent of the First Amendment and dispel the myth of the separation of church and state," it says.

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"Lord, your words tell us there's a sign that this nation is under a curse, when the alien who lives among us grows higher and higher and we grow lower and lower," he preached.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/DN-gopreligion_04tex.ART.State.Edition1.903cb29.html

Fascists at their best.

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BrklynLiberal

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Mon Jun-05-06 12:29 AM
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1. Blech. Puke. Cough. Yikes.

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NMMNG

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Mon Jun-05-06 12:43 AM
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2. They need to brush up on their history

Instead of revising it. :eyes:

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Snaggletooth

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Mon Jun-05-06 01:56 AM
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3. Swearing oaths...

Once again we have an organized group publicly stating their intention to undermine the Constitution and The Bill of Rights, two of the three LEGALLY binding documents this country was founded upon!

Where are all of those patriotic "public servants" who swore to protect the Constitution from enemies foreign and DOMESTIC!?! Let me guess...maybe, at the Republican convention in San Antonio? Not to go all Gump on you but, evil is as evil does.

Snaggletooth the Crone

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ixion

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Mon Jun-05-06 05:50 AM
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4. sprinting backward into the Dark Ages

Edited on Mon Jun-05-06 05:51 AM by ixion

Gee, just a few years ago it was the Information Age. Things were moving forward. North Korea was actually getting ready to open it's borders. Things weren't perfect, but they were heading in a decent direction, at least.

Suddenly, from the (all too brief) Age of Information, we've moved (all too swiftly) to an Age of Terror and a new Barbarianism.

The mind boggles. :crazy:

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meow2u3

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Mon Jun-05-06 07:26 AM
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5. Repukes may wear the fake faith on their sleeves

but they have no true faith in their hearts--where it counts! They're just a bunch of pathetic PHARISEES!

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hadrons

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Mon Jun-05-06 11:39 AM
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6. buttons on their shirts and faith on their sleeves, brains nowhere to seen

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