President Receives Religious Liberty Award (Couldn't resist)

http://www.thecronline.com/news_article.php?nid=1960&ndate=02/02/2007

(CR) – The president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission presented the 2006 John Leland Religious Liberty Award to President George W. Bush in the Oval Office. The award is given to an individual for “courageously defending the right of all people to exercise freely their religious faith.”

“I can’t think of another president in my lifetime who has done more to promote religious liberty specifically as a fundamental human right around the world,” said ERLC’s Richard Land.

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Duke said, “I was especially impressed by the president’s openness. I found him to be very approachable, warm and genuinely winsome. I left with an even deeper appreciation for the man and his presidency.”

Land said, “The opportunity to present the award in that setting was a rare honor that reflects well on all Southern Baptists and was a personal privilege that I will cherish for the remainder of my days.”

John Leland has got to be rolling over in his grave

articles out there that would probably never make the MSM. It's like a window into the GOP/Fundie world. Here's one more that caught my eye.

Romney Faces Questions about His Faith

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday dismissed questions about whether his Mormon faith would be an impediment to his White House aspirations, echoing the argument that voters will be choosing a president not a pastor.


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"I don't think that I could see someone who is a member of a faith so contrary to my faith having my support," said Haskins, a graduate of Bob Jones University, a Christian fundamentalist college. Haskins is backing Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

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On Tuesday, Mosteller, who is a Baptist, said, "The question is: Does Governor Romney support Joseph Smith's doctrines? We as evangelicals don't believe we can go in and change Paul's doctrine. I don't see how you move around this."

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Romney attended a House Republican Caucus meeting that always begins with a Bible verse and prayer in Christ's name, led by Republican state Rep. Bob Leach.

Leach told caucus members he asked Romney who Jesus Christ was and Romney responded that Christ "was his personal savior."

Leach said that was good enough to earn his vote.

http://www.thecronline.com/news_article.php?nid=1963&ndate=02/02/2007

Did the picture of Bush show him with a bad-Spock-like mustache?

"Charming in a childlike or naive way." Just the type of person that should be the POTUS.

Dammit! I need a new irony meter!