Dana Loesch leads religion pity party at CPAC: ‘It’s time to make Christians a protected class’

[JDDavis]

Columnist Cal Thomas, radio host Dana Loesch, and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins took part in a CPAC panel on religious freedom Saturday, and they pronounced that times were dire for followers of Jesus Christ.

“I feel like it’s time to make Christians a protected class,” Dana Loesch said, as the discussion reached a fevered pitch of self-pity.

Thomas chimed in that “our commander in chief” — who is Jesus, not President Obama — instructed his followers that they would experience persecution.

Then Thomas and Loesch admitted that it just wouldn’t be worth being a Christian if you couldn’t feel persecuted.

“And since we have the victim competition in the United States,” Loesch added, “I think we win.”

Here, watch them climb up on those crosses for yourself…

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/dana-loesch-leads-religion-pity-party-at-cpac-its-time-to-make-christians-a-protected-class/comments/#disqus

And some of our friends on DU think there's absolutely nothing to worry about nor anyreason to be such nasty nasty atheists, challenging religious thinking. Some seem to think religions in the USA are becoming more "liberal".

[deucemagnet]

1. “I feel like it’s time to make Christians a protected class,”

Yep, let's legislate religious privilege! Put it on the books! Wouldn't our intellectually dishonest apologist friends have a field day with that?

[Fumesucker]

2. Matthew 5:10

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Here we are giving them what they say they most want, a free ticket to heaven, and the ingrates whine like a three year old overdue for his nap.

[Curmudgeoness]

7. That is why they are so ready to play the martyr.

It is so much better to be a Christian when you are being persecuted than when you are the persecutors. They have no idea what persecution is, and I have my doubts that they could stand up to true persecution. How many of them would be willing to stand there and be stoned or beheaded just for their beliefs?

[DavidDvorkin]

3. The medieval walled ghetto started as a way to protect the Jews from hostile neighbors

The wall and the guards along it were a privilege granted to them by a sympathetic ruler. It didn't take long before the ghetto evolved into a prison.

A.k.a., be careful what you wish for.

[haikugal]

14. Wow, Thanks for this information...

I never knew this.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Endangered species sometimes die out because they can no longer

survive in an evolved world. Religions are running their course (mainly into the shoals and reefs) because they no longer apply in a modern world. The inter tubes provide information and data. That are the two worst possible things you can do to any religion. Removing blind faith, willful ignorance, and deliberate stupidity with facts causes every religion to suffer badly. As they should.

[mountain grammy]

6. Good grief, I hope so..

The death throes are taking forever.

[FiveGoodMen]

15. "they no longer apply in a modern world"

For my money, they never applied.

Once upon a time, we knew less than we do now and therefore religious notions were easier to sell.

But they've always been wrong.

So I don't see how they ever applied to anything (except crowd control).

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. Good point. But fear is a powerful emotion. It can overcome most others,

except, perhaps, hatred. (See generally, today's GOP and its reaction to a black president, who happens to be far smarter and harder working than they.)

[mr blur]

5. Protected against what - mockery?

Seems to me that Christians have a pretty privileged ride already over there.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Only Bad Mockers.

Good Mockers are still ok. See The Rulez.

Oh wait, I thought your were talking about DU. Nevermind.

[AlbertCat]

8. Poor poor put upon Christians!

I'll just have to go, freely and unobstructed, to one the gazillions of churches everywhere in this country (there are 3 just in my view from the window) and pray the persecution stops.

Or maybe I could blare a prayer from one of the all Christian radio or TV stations available everywhere in these here United States.

I know, I'll make some signs....I'm off to Hobby Lobby right after I grab a quick bite at Chic-fil-ay.




These poor poor Christians just can't get a break.... except a tax break!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. In my nape of the forest, there are 14 churches, one pub.

There were 17 at one time, but they are going broke, a bit at a time.
A few years before I moved here, a bankrupt church was asked to sell its property to a mosque. The City Council objected, and the litigation became national news. They got spanked bad.

I'd prefer to turn them into bars or art museums, but there still is a strong religiosity here in southern cook county, Illinois.

[JDDavis]

18. One small church in my area was turned into a restaurant

It was a great smoked ribs restaurant, called "Holy Smokes"

Some people thought it was disrespectful of religion to use the word "holy" in the name.

A couple years later, it burned down.

Coincidence?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. I doubt that there are such coincidences.

The lunatics do come out with a fool moon, and the voices they hear in their heads told them that the ribs were an affront to their fairy tale sky-god.

[enki23]

9. The stupid fuckwits already are a protected class. What they want is to unprotect all the others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class

[JDDavis]

13. Sort of ironic that these folks don't know the 1964 Civil Rights act

which protected the civil rights of their "class" specifically because of their religion.

[progressoid]

10. I was unfamiliar with Ms Loesch prior to this.

After watching a couple more of her videos, I will strive to avoid listening to her again.

I think the word I'm looking for is 'insufferable'.

[NastyRiffraff]

12. The word I'm looking for is "nauseating"

I almost lost my breakfast listening to her. It was a good breakfast, too. Cheese omelet and fresh fruit.

[Moostache]

21. She is one of if not the worst lunatic on the right wing media machine.

That woman is positioned to become Phyllis Schlafly as soon as that other insufferable gas bag stops wasting our oxygen and water to sustain the husk of a human being that resides within her.

The world is impoverished by the presence of people like Loesch.

[libodem]

20. Yeah right

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