2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRomney Thinks Faith is Under Siege Here? He Should Visit Iran. Or Tibet
Mitt Romney spoke at the late Jerry Falwell's Liberty University this weekend, firing another shot today in his party's imagined war on religion: "It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with." But Romney has it backward. It's not faith that's under attack, it's evangelical religion that has the nation under siege.
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)and embraced by the Republicans domestically ...
mucifer
(23,374 posts)It's sooooooooo sad.
musical_soul
(775 posts)It will serve its purpose in Nov.
Iceberg Louie
(190 posts)so long as it's their freedom to exercise their religious beliefs. Funny how people who hold alternate beliefs (including ascribing to one of the world's many other faiths, aversion to religion in general, or actual adherence to the teachings of Christ, as opposed to the self-serving cherry-picking of today's redneck churchianity which couldn't be further from Christianity and has wholeheartedly taken over as the status quo of contemporary U.S. "Christian" "faith" are categorized by the right as combatants of religious freedom.
The GOP must have serious contempt and cynicism for their base. They must really think their constituency is stupid, and, unfortunately, by the responses of their followers, this assumption is yet to be disproven.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)we have groups of people whom apparently feel "free" to try to make other people less free.
LiberalFighter
(50,506 posts)If it can't withstand the scrutiny.