Sharron Angle Campaigned Against Black Football Jerseys On Religious Grounds: Color is Evil

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle once partook in a campaign against a local high school's use of black football jerseys, arguing that the dark color was ungodly and wicked, Bill Roberts of Nevada's Pahrump Valley Times recently reported.

It was Homecoming of 1992 and Nevada's Tonopah High School football was seeking to depart from their school colors, specifically in wearing black jerseys instead of the usual red and white. The uniform change was meant to be a display of solidarity; the year before, the team had suffered an embarrassing loss at the hands of a rival that had, up to that point, been winless. The Homecoming game in 1992 was their chance to make up for that plaguing defeat in front of the whole school, and they wanted to do something special to build the team's spirits.

Enter Sharron Angle and her color-crusading cohort.

While some detractors made the argument that adopting the new color was unacceptable simply as a breach of tradition, Angle -- who was in the midst of an eventually successful campaign for school board -- and others argued that wearing black jerseys was closer to sacrilege.

"I cannot quote scripture as they did to justify their point but the gist of their argument was that black as a color was thoroughly evil, invoking the supernatural and especially the devil," Roberts reports. "Whichever argument prevailed, school administrators caved in and prohibited the Muckers from wearing the black apparel."

The black uniforms were then confiscated and held under "lock and key" by the administration, which refused to compensate the team for the money they had spent acquiring the jerseys.

Though Sharron Angle sought to downplay the nearly 20-year old incident at a press conference Wednesday, claiming that she had "no recollection of the controversy or any position she may have taken," such a stance would not be entirely uncharacteristic of the deeply religious Senate candidate that Angle has shown herself to be since capturing her primary victory in June.



From the "the beginning," Angle has described her campaign as divinely inspired, and said in July that she believed God had called on her to run for the U.S. Senate. She has also repeatedly made clear her positions on abortion -- that it shouldn't be accepted even in the cases of rape or incest -- and has expressed skepticism over the true necessity for a separation of church and state. Earlier this month, Angle painted the Democratic agenda as a "violation of the First Commandment," because it supposedly created idolatry in making the "government our God" with entitlement programs. Just a day later, she filled out a questionnaire of her religious views that uncovered her dislike of gay adoption, her support for the clergy taking part in politics, and a promise not to take money from any PAC or corporation that supported gay rights.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/sharron-angle-campaigned-_n_687510.html

Please.





She must have hated Johnny Cash.

Which goes to show how unpopular he is. I think the latest poll showed Reid up by about 2% which was inside the poll's margin of error.

The critical mass of "batshit crazy" would create a world-ending Big Bang.

worriedly,
Bright

attack on a woman and possible business conflict of interest. We'll see-I've already seen one bumpersticker for Angle on a senior woman's car. It looked like she was old enough to be on social security, so she either buys into the shite or she's one of the "I've got mine screw everyone else" people.

Angle is saturating the boobtube with ads holding Reid responsible for the mortgage crisis, even though it was Little Boot's deregulation policies coming home to roost. She's got an ad stating how she wants to protect social security and lock the box. I wind up yelling at the TV-calling her a liar. Well, I was yelling at the TV, now I just put it on "mute."

She's got her handlers and it appears for the public she's doing a 180--"beware of wolves in sheep's clothing." And, that's what I think she is. All questions must be pre-screened-who'd a thought, a female Little Boots.

And her views on choice, makes her no friend of women. And, I agree, I think she's loco and adheres to the voices in her small mind. We'll see how many Nevadans buy into her rhetoric.

If she is elected, I'd love to move, but my family is here. I don't want to live around that many ignorant, clueless people.

And, her deregulating bullshite. Little Boot's allowing his friends to police themselves is what got us into this mess. She is a deregulating, anti-labor, anti-woman, corporate whore in my book. There is nothing new in her rhetoric that hasn't been done for the past eight nightmarish years of *. She's even got the "God" pitch down (and that's what scares me the most).

For the crazy...:thumbsup:

..bat-shit crazy..this is lunacy of the strait-jacket variety...

If Nevada elects this loon they will be the laughing stock of the country..and that takes some doing when you have places like AZ and FL competing against you for that title..

Tom Coburn will no longer be the American elected official with the most serious mental health issues.

"expressed skepticism over the true necessity for a separation of church and state"

If that is the belief she holds then she can not swear an oath to the Constitution and therefore she can not be a member of Congress.
If she swears an oath she is then violating the Constitution and could be subject to charges of Treason.

What about the black robes worn by clergy? What about black gowns worn by church choirs?

We need to find pictures of Angle wearing black clothing.

:rofl: It's either laugh or cry, so I choose :rofl:

so wearing black while doing satan's work it appropriate, as least to Angle.

I agree with an above post - I believe she has serious mental illnesses, not quirks, but disorders with names...


mark

She is totally sick.

Green and Oolong only.

What would John Luc have to say about this? hmmm?

You won't fool them with that. It's still evil!

Sharon, better not cross to the other side of the Sierras.

;-)

Sometimes the ad-bot is right on.

Oh and we have evil black helmets too.

And Pittsburgh Penguins when they wear their black jerseys!

BOO Raiders..
I'm Broncos Fans ;)

I would have guessed Angle would support the troops. I guessed wrong.

And truffles, chalkboards, caviar...

Red - the color of blood, atonement, Communism, Republicans, and Antares.

Besides, you can't tell me that Angle doesn't wear black panties when she's feeling "naughty." :rofl:

Come to wine country anytime darlin'. Open house for you.

:blush::hug:

If I ever make it to California, I will definitely keep you in mind. :hi:

That's game changing crazy.

There's going to have to be a new definition for "crazy" after this.

Sadly, crazy goes to eleven nowadays.

I know all Christians do not think or behave alike. But right wing, conservative fundamentalist Christians always blindly vote for anyone who is a religious fanatic, even if the candidates are totally incompetent in every measurable way. Bush professed to be a 'born again' Christian and received all the fundamentalist Christian vote, even though any intelligent, thinking person knew he was a dolt, a fraud and a liar. If I ran for office in a highly religious area all I would have to do to win is out-Christian my opponent. And the more times I said I was born again the more votes I would receive from religious fanatics.

I know several right wing Christians and the only thing they consider about a candidate is if they are 'born again' or a religious fanatic. That's why the right wing freaks like Angle and Palin are so popular among religious extremists.

Nevada must certainly have some extremes since gambling and prostitution are legal there. Why doesn't psycho Angle try cleaning up her own back yard first?

...probably explains some of the results I'm getting on my search requests. And here I've been, thinking it was because I had safe-search turned off...

But not evil.

She knows that they're really hovering demons from Satan.

1 Timothy 2:9 "Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments."

For someone using Christianity as a tool to control what other people wear, she seems to have a lousy understanding of it herself.

And yes, folks, that's from the NEW Testament, so she can't even weasel out of it by claiming that Jesus "superceded" those laws, like many fundies enjoy claiming when you point out the anti-shellfish laws in Leviticus.

Many fundamentalists would disagree with me on that, as they say long hair is feminine (unless worn by Jesus or Mel Gibson).

...is that women are supposed to have hair that is unadorned and be undecorated. Timothy was a "fundie", and was railing against the corrupting influences creeping into the early church. One of those negative influences was women who cared about their looks. He wanted them to be plain and unadorned. If your hair is styled, you're sinning.

Of course, I should have just trotted this out and been done with it: "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence" (1 Timothy 2:11-12).

The same book also bans women from holding positions of authority over men. I'm pretty sure a seat in the Senate qualifies.

Fundie hypocrisy on display, once again.

She is deeply disturbed, and it manifests as religious mania.

she doesn't belong in congress - she belongs in a lockdown ward.

We talked about football uniforms a few times.

Black uniforms are considered more intimidating than lighter, brighter colors.

His favorite team is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (do not ask me why- there are many things I was not meant to know :yoiks:)
and he thought they got more respect when they changed their red-and-orange uniform for the primarily black one.

I'd made him Father's Day shirts out of the logo fabrics (with the little footballs for buttons :P) and he very kindly 'splained me why he preferred the newer, black/red/white scheme to the brighter orange/red one.

I must admit I thought the Miami Dolphins aqua and white uniform was "pretty".
You don't want your obscenely overpaid big hulking bruisers to look 'pretty'; you want them to look professional and scary as hell.

I'm probably wrong, on occasion.

if the sunshine is intense.. The players heat up enough, from all the padding they wear, without having a heat absorbing color like black.

but I'm sure Ms Angle did not take that into consideration:)

I hope that Harry realizes that this should be his LAST term.. He'd have 6 years to line something up for later, and should just concentrate on grooming some other, younger, more appealing Nevadan to replace him in 6 years.

and

he should NOT ever again be made leader (if he survives this election & we manage to hold a majority)

Catholic School? LOL! Devils indeed.

"But when I'm elected I will turn your balls blue"

NT

REPENT!

No, I didn't think so either.

On one hand, you get some bigoted Mor(m)on wimp who's scared of a mosque 2000 miles away (the "liberal" candidate) and on the other hand you get someone who (yet again) proves that the Soviet Union was right to lock up religious fundamentalists in insane asylums.

If Harry just stood up for some principles for once, Angle would look like the idiot she really is.