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drakonyx

(226 posts)
Sun May 13, 2012, 04:36 PM May 2012

Romney 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.

Read the whole story at The Provocation.

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Romney Thinks Faith is Under Siege Here? He Should Visit Iran. Or Tibet (Original Post) drakonyx May 2012 OP
Funny how foreign country religious extremists are denounced, zbdent May 2012 #1
Poor Rmoney is losing the freedom to treat others like crap. mucifer May 2012 #2
Let him treat people like crap.... musical_soul May 2012 #5
Funny how RepubliCAN'Ts champion religious freedom Iceberg Louie May 2012 #3
Religion is so "free" in this country Proud Liberal Dem May 2012 #4
If faith is under seige what does that say about their religion? LiberalFighter May 2012 #6

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
1. Funny how foreign country religious extremists are denounced,
Sun May 13, 2012, 05:52 PM
May 2012

and embraced by the Republicans domestically ...

Iceberg Louie

(190 posts)
3. Funny how RepubliCAN'Ts champion religious freedom
Mon May 14, 2012, 04:28 PM
May 2012

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&quot 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)
4. Religion is so "free" in this country
Mon May 14, 2012, 04:32 PM
May 2012

we have groups of people whom apparently feel "free" to try to make other people less free.

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