GOP mailing warns liberals will ban bibles

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November.

The literature shows a Bible with the word "BANNED" across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word "ALLOWED." The mailing tells West Virginians to "vote Republican to protect our families" and defeat the "liberal agenda."

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said Friday that he wasn't aware of the mailing, but said it could be the work of the RNC. "It wouldn't surprise me if we were mailing voters on the issue of same-sex marriage," Gillespie said.

The flier says Republicans have passed laws "protecting life," support defining marriage as between a man and a woman and nominate conservative judges who will "interpret the law and not legislate from the bench." It does not mention the names of the presidential candidates.

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-6/109545747696410.xml&storylist=topstories

[Fenris]

1. We're not?

Maybe this isn't the political ideology for me.:D

[Journeyman]

39. I heard Kerry's brother is a homo sapien. . .

and Edward's sister is a practicing thespian in New York City.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Not only that, we'll seduce Christian girls

and convert available males to homosexuality.

[LTR]

4. Catholic school girls in skirts for me

:evilgrin:

[notadmblnd]

37. and I'll take the alter boys...

.. oh crap, the priests already got all those.:cry:

[Pirate Smile]

3. Oh good Lord, they are INSANE!

[Sugarbleus]

16. Insane AND corrupt. Sending out frightening crap like that to

those poor defenseless NUMBNUTS!!!!

Who in hell would believe such crap except for morons.

That's it. I'm officially adamant that we educate EVERYONE in America.
We can't have naive, superstitious people voting. :nuke:

[htuttle]

5. As far as I know, there is only one country that bans Bibles...

...and that would be the President's friends in Saudi Arabia.

That is, if they are actually banned there -- I know you certainly can't open a church in Saudi Arabia, but I'm not sure about mere possession of a Bible.

[shockingelk]

6. Am I imagining things ...

or does everybody else remember Byrd frequently quoting the "Good Book"?

This kind of message doesn't do anything other than make people angry ... changes no one's mind.

[Lizzie Borden]

7. You got it!

And the scary thing is, they can vote.

[hatrack]

8. What about the UN Black Helicopter Abortion Army? Did they forget?

You know, the elite United Nations Sterilization Strike Force which will abduct all the women in the world and forcibly tie their tubes at their secret medical base beneath the ocean off the coast of Greenland!

And then, when they finally get the UFO tran-nuclear generating station working - the power plant from the UFO that crashed in Siberia in 1908 - Democrats will bombard Christians with its deadly mind-control beams. This will make it possible for Hillary Clinton to force God-fearing Americans to listen to NPR and drink chai and engage in non-procreative sexual acts and wear Tevas and allow gay black and Puerto Rican men to do their hair and offer them pedicures.

And it only gets worse from there!!

[grace0418]

9. I was just coming here to report this to y'all

So basically the tactic is to throw so many outrageous lies at the American people that some percentage of them end up being believe by someone.

Geezus I despise right-wing thugs!

[Dem2theMax]

10. Are they twisted or what?

(fully knowing that those who were 'not mentioned' in the flier had EVERYTHING to do with it)

I hope justice is served one day for the scum that thought this one up. I can see it now. They approach the Pearly Gates. St. Peter is standing there waiting for them. He asks their names. "George, KKKarl and Dick," they reply. St. Peter checks his list, looks up at them and says, "I'm sorry. You've been BANNED from Heaven."

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. seeing what dirt sticks

First off have these people heard of Separation of Church and State?

Second, what are they on?

[ClintonTyree]

12. Just when I think....................

that the GOP cannot possibly sink any lower they once again dig themselves to new lows. I simply cannot believe this. Gillespie nonchalantly brushes the issue off as if it's normal behavior.

These people must be stopped, there is no living with them in this country anymore. They are the dirtiest, slimiest, sanctimonious, pompous, arrogant, festering, diseased puss warts on the face of the earth.

I hate them, there is nothing more that I can say. I hate them.

[TrogL]

15. For them, it is normal behaviour

The end justifies the means, so they will say anything to get elected whether it's the truth or not.

Their believers believe for the sake of believing so will swallow anything that is sent out.

[jwirr]

13. They can borrow mine!

It is not liberals who ban Bibles. The fundies allow only the King James Version for the most part. That is banning a lot of new versions that are easier to read. They do it because that way they can twist the interpretation any way they want just by using obscure language. I cannot believe that there are enough ignorant people that believe this bull to elect a fly. Apparently our schools really are in bad shape!

[prodigal_green]

17. I have a good friend who is a linguist

specializes in early English, Middle English, ancient Greek and Latin. He cracks up whenever he hears someone (mis)quote the bible because they, more often than not, have NO idea what it is that they are actually saying.

Some linguists also looking at the Koran right now--turns out that the 72 black-eyed virgins can also be translated as a plate of white grapes (white grapes are referred to as diamonds and pearls throughout the Koran apparently, so that would be a nice thing to get in heaven) and the directive for a woman to cover her head can also be translated as "keep your belt tied."

At any rate, fundies hate "intellectuals" because they can expose these sort of things.

[Khephra]

19. Some fundies are starting to have problems with the King James

version these days, as more and more churches are starting to worry about his possible homosexuality and the negative effect that "taint" could have had on the translation.

[benburch]

26. The Psalms in KJV were translated by Shakespeare or so I've read

and you know about the rumors that he was gay, or at least bi.

[DrWeird]

29. Well, he did write love poetry to his male lover.

Not many straight men do that.

The famous, "how do I love thee, let me count the ways" was one of them.

[MrMonk]

30. That was by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

[DemBones DemBones]

42. But it was written to a man, so he was half right.

:evilgrin:

[jimshoes]

21. Watch and see how fast the chimp

drops these fundo whackjobs if he should happen to steal another term (God forbid) and no longer needs their vote.

[Swamp Rat]

44. He'll need some to run the Inquisition Part II. A few others will be used

to entertain.

[Lefta Dissenter]

14. "Yeah, and what's more...

Those damned libruls are going to force men to pose together in sexually suggestive positions... Oh wait... That's us.

Well, no, I mean those damned libruls are going to send mentally incompetent people to the electric chair... Oh shit, that's us, too...

OK, I'll get it. Those damned libruls are going to hide behind the skirts of their three-year-old daughters and make them cry... OH SHIT!

I give up. :eyes:

We SUCK. Maybe I'll become a damned librul, after all!" :shrug:

[bringbackfdr]

18. These people have no sense of decency

They also have no depths to which they will not sink.

[lanparty]

20. Yes, I'm sure the ACLU ...

... has banning the bible on the top of it's agenda.

</sarcasm>

[joefree1]

22. Yes, we not allow Christians to

force schools to put bibles in the class room. We will not allow fundies to scare people with endless stories of doom and guilt. We will not allow fundies to tell woman what to do with their bodies.

We're aggressive progressives. Be very afraid.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PaganWarrior/

[partygirl]

23. hey getting rid of

the bible has my vote. But won't the bible thumpers need something to bang on?

[leesa]

24. Gillespie: It could be the work of the GOP...I know nothink!

What blatant propaganda. I think the bible is a very damaging, extremely poorly edited book, but I would never consider banning it.

Too funny.

[LynnTheDem]

25. ROTFLMAO!!! Bibles banned...

I always knew rightwingnuts were insane, but even I didn't realize they're THIS insane! :D

[mrbassman03]

33. And promote the torah and koran!!!

That's my plan...

[sage1]

27. Those dummies....

should know that we liberals don't ban any books. We're in favor of anything in print, especially pornography... like the Bible.
Anyone who knows the Bible, knows that it ranks right up there in sexual content, violence and racism.

[Fleshdancer]

28. It's only a matter of time 'till they blame us for killing Jesus

this is getting absurd.

[Wilber_Stool]

31. Your damn right

and we'll sell their children to the Chinese and make them all Buddhists. Then we'll kill all the pregnant women as a new method of birth control. And that's only the beginning.

[DiverDave]

32. Sent an email to the RNC

I know, I know, sorta like asking Sancho for my lance.

Liberals ban the BIBLE??

Pretty pathetic.
Have you sunk so low?
Apparently you have.

Pretty low, even for a fascist org. like yours.

[DiverDave]

34. dupe

Having lots of trouble posting today

[A_Possum]

35. Sounds like they're stealing Osama bin Laden's ideas

closet terrorist kooks

[snippy]

36. Byrd should go on the air in W. Va. talking about how stupid the RNC

evidently thinks W. Va. people are. He should call it it an insult and slam republicans for attempting to manipulate voters with this lie. He could do several interviews and blanket the state with free media.

[w4rma]

38. "warns" when a Repug says it. "accuses" when a Dem says it. (nt)

[SoCalDem]

40. and they will follow women home from the ob/gyn offices

after their "love visits" and abort their white babies :eyes:

[KamaAina]

41. Dem mailing says conservo-fascists will ban essential freedoms

Oh, how I'd love to see that -- and our mailing would actually be factual!!

[olddad56]

43. and if the neo-cons win they will ban the constitution and ...

Men will marry chimpanzees.

[Just Me]

45. They must be going broke. Desperate people take desperate,...

,...measures,...and PROVE their capacity to engage in the lowest human denominator,...

,...by being simpleton legislators,...

UGH!!!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

46. This is right up there with the time that a Repubican candidate

accused the late Senator Claude Pepper of having a sister who was "a known thespian."