OMG: Jeb Bush: A ‘tolerant country’ should allow discrimination based upon ‘religious beliefs’

[kpete]

In a sit-down interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network on Saturday, potential GOP presidential nominee Jeb Bush explained that a “tolerant country” should make room for “people of faith” to discriminate against others.

Speaking with host David Brody, the former Florida governor said, “It’s not just that people of faith can have their views, it’s that they need the space to act on their conscience. That is what faith is about.”

Saying the best of all religious beliefs is when people of faith act on their values to help others, Bush nonetheless defended the rights of those same people to deny “services” to people whose lifestyles they oppose.



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more scary stuff:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/jeb-bush-a-tolerant-country-should-allow-discrimination-based-upon-religious-beliefs/

[octoberlib]

1. He's pandering. This is stupid even for him. He sounds like Pat Robertson.

[marym625]

2. "more scary stuff"

love it!

[mindem]

3. This crap is getting real old

real fast! In other words, this idiot is saying a tolerant county condones intolerance. Repukes are turning this country into a right wing freak show.

[trumad]

4. Only a tolerant country...

Allows your type of bigotry.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. Just as Hillary will pander to the left

during the primaries, he will pander to the right. If both of them make it to the general, they'll each find ideas from the other party that they admire. It's so predictable it's nauseating, and I'm not interested.

[JoePhilly]

6. Yea, Hillary really agrees with Jeb on this.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. When a Straight politician says something so bigoted and other Straight people respond not by

damning the bigotry but by exploiting the issue to makes some vague agenda driven point of their own I have very strong opinions about those Straight people.

[KittyWampus]

7. A peaceful country should be at war…. a wealthy nation should have poverty...

I guess

[nruthie]

8. Repulsive.

[City Lights]

9. John Ellis Bush has a perverted understanding of the word "tolerant."

He is ugly on the inside, just like so many other Republicans.

[Initech]

11. Isn't that the exact opposite of what "tolerance" means?

A truly tolerant society would not allow discrimination in any form.