GINGRICH: I am not a citizen of the world. I am a citizen of the United States because

[Are_grits_groceries]

only in the United States does citizenship start with our creator. <...> I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history. We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism."

On Friday, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and Oliver North visited Rock Church in Hampton Roads, Virginia to give a three-hour long lecture on “Rediscovering God in America.” The speakers warned the audience about the “continuing availability of abortion, the spread of gay rights, and attempts to remove religion from American public life and school history books.” The Virginia-Pilot reported that Gingrich argued that, while Christianity is the foundation of American citizenship, Americans are experiencing a period where they are being “surrounded by paganism."

Huckabee also equated America’s victory against the British in the Revolutionary War with the right-wing’s success in the Proposition 8 fight in California as being miracles “from God’s hand.”

http://thinkprogress.org/

What in the hell is Gingrich talking about? Do I need an ID from God?

Huckabee, Gingrich, and North - Critical mass of teh stupid.

[Deja Q]

1. From offshore havens to offshore drilling to offshoring of jobs, what doesn't he support?

America, perhaps?

[Xipe Totec]

2. For Gingrich there is no God but Mammon n/t

[Mythsaje]

3. The human equivilant of a black hole

so dense not a ray of light can escape.

[Mojambo]

4. Boy, He REALLY wants to be Palin's running mate in 2012. n/t

[tularetom]

5. Dumbest goddamn statement I've ever read.

OK so he believes that God gave us citizenship. Even if you believe God has nothing better to do than fuck around in the internal affairs of Amurka, who does he think made all those people who are not citizens of the US?

"Attempts to remove religion from American public life and school history books" - about fuckin time if only it were true.

I think all the fat in the newt's head is smooshing his brain.

[EFerrari]

6. He sounds more insane every day. How do we push him over the edge?

:)

[hyphenate]

16. We could tell him that Rush is

really the anti-christ that they're all looking for. :)

[anonymous171]

7. God is a fervently pro-American deity.

It says so in the bible.

[Odin2005]

8. Tom Paine is rolling in his grave

"The World is my Country, all Mankind are my Brethren, and to do Good is my Religion"

Suck it, Newt-face!

[Blue_Tires]

9. ugh...Rock Church...

why does this not surprise me?:puke:

[Cleita]

10. He shouldn't even be a citizen of the USA, because everything he

believes and stands for would undermine our democracy and our Constitution.

[bluestateguy]

11. I believe Reagan called himself a citizen of the world

I don't have time to find the link, but someone else can.

[Deja Q]

12. :)

http://www.google.com/search?q=reagan+citizen+world&btnG=Google+Search

[Solly Mack]

13. Scary to think that man once taught history to college students

[47of74]

14. Americans are experincing a period where they are surrounded by....

...a bunch of religious extremists who bring nothing but pain and suffering to everyone they meet.

[hyphenate]

15. yeah, right

>>>>>The Virginia-Pilot reported that Gingrich argued that, while Christianity is the foundation of American citizenship, Americans are experiencing a period where they are being “surrounded by paganism."<<<<<

make that "surrounded by repug idiots" and I'll accept that phrase.

Newt thinks that just because they hammered Bill Clinton to death during the last couple of years of his second term with a repug held congress, that we're all these stupid idiots out here with more integrity in our baby toes than he will EVER have in his life.

This is NOT a "Xtian nation." It was never intended as one, and it was even written in the Bill of Rights as the first amendment the FREEDOM from and of Religion, speech, and all those wonderfully parts that helped shape this country.

People--stupid ones, mostly--forget that the Puritans, Pilgrims and other original settlers came over in the early 17th century, while the beginning of the United States" didn't come until almost 160 years later, in the 18th century. Stupid people just accept someone's word on it, and thereby fuck up themselves and a lot of others at the same time.


AND, one more thing. If these idiots like Gingrich, Huckabee and others like them actually came out and gave
the religious right twits any of their obsessional hatefilled hopes, the repugs would never have anything to argue about. The real reason behind none of these things having come to fruition.

[angstlessk]

17. ma poor husband was of the inner circle of rock church during his

'formative' years..and he HATES IT..his sister and here husband were kicked out when they asked about the finances of the church when they served on the board...his sainted mother still attends and voted for boosh till Obama became a candidate....I just wonder if she was there for this gala presentation??? I will ask my husband to ask his mother...his is sick in bed and I dare not present this news to him just yet!

[Lex]

18. God is a citizen of the World.

Not just America.

[HughMoran]

19. Republicans do everything they can to bring out the worst possible aspects of religion

Morons like this are the reason that people are slowly but surely losing interest in religion. Are they actually anti-Christians in disguise?

[bluedeminredstate]

20. Newt: Who would Jesus serve with divorce papers?

And I would ask Huckabee to be careful what he attributes to God and then ask him, who would Jesus discriminate against?


:grr:

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. So says a man that came straight from Hell.......

Nice try, Gnute.