Wow. Reverend Warnock for Senate.

[KentuckyWoman]

If you can spare it, send this man some coins ... We need people like him in the Senate.

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[Maraya1969]

1. Who is he running against?

I like this guy!!!

[DAMANgoldberg]

4. There may be others, as I don't live there, but...

Teresa Tomlinson, former mayor of Columbus

[Maraya1969]

5. Actually I was wondering what Republican he was up against. But maybe

the seat will be empty.

But now I see that both Georgia senators are R's

From Wikipedia: "Like every state, Georgia has two Senators serving in the United States Senate: Senator Johnny Isakson (R) Senator David Perdue (R)"

[OliverQ]

13. Both Georgia Senate seats are up for grabs this year.

Currently Kelly Loeffler is the top choice for Republicans, but Doug Collins just announced he's running too and Republicans are mad since they think he will make it more likely that a Dem could win the seat.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. So do I

He will not try to manage a church and being a Senator at the same time so I think he can keep Church and State separate

[Phoenix61]

2. No, just no. No priests, reverends, ministers etc nt

[demosincebirth]

3. Priests are not allowed to run for office.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. yes we had a wonderful Congressman from Massachusetts

who was also a Jesuit priest. From his obituary
He was the Rev. Robert F. Drinan, the first and only Roman Catholic priest ever elected to Congress and still remembered as having filed, in 1973, the initial impeachment resolution against President Richard M. Nixon. Drinan died Sunday at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington at age 86, of congestive heart failure and pneumonia.

While the priest chose to live simply at Jesuit-run Georgetown University during his five terms as a congressman, there was nothing modest about his strongly held liberal views on a host of controversial issues. Most prominently, he parted company with mainstream Vatican policy with his pro-choice stand on abortion rights and birth control.

A graduate of Georgetown University's law school, Drinan was dean of Boston College Law School in 1970 when he entered politics. As an anti-war candidate in the midst of the unpopular Vietnam War, Drinan narrowly defeated Rep. Philip J. Philbin, D-Mass., a 14-term incumbent, in the Democratic primary.

I'd take this priest any day! He stepped down when the Pope ordered priests to not run for office.

[Polybius]

6. He's got a great chance to win though

It's Georgia, let's take what we can get in a Red state.

[Phoenix61]

7. No. Let's not. nt

[Progressive Jones]

8. Would you have told Dr. King not to run? nt

[Phoenix61]

9. Yes, I would have. Separation of church and

state means just that. If he stepped down as minister that would be a different situation.

[yellowdogintexas]

16. he will have to. No way he could do both

I think he is very impressive.

[Polybius]

21. So don't complain if a Republican wins

He would have had an excellent chance of winning.

[phleshdef]

10. I'm an atheist and I have no problem with it as long as he is right on the issues.

[Phoenix61]

11. He's a minister. There's no way he's "right"

on the issues. Sorry, but there’s just not. I’ve lived my whole life in the south. He may be less bad than a lot but ... no, just no.

[phleshdef]

12. Well what is his platform?

If he is anti-LGBT rights and anti-choice, those are the only concerns I would have when it comes to religious conflicts.

You could be right or wrong. But right now, you're just being prejudice.

[Phoenix61]

19. How would you feel if it was Franklin Graham?

Are you comfortable with all ministers preaching about who to vote for because that’s what this open the door to. He may be a “good” minister but, he’s still a minister.

[phleshdef]

20. We know where Franklin Graham stands on the issues. Dumb question.

You are engaging in bigotry.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. all ministers are not the same. I guarantee you that

all of the ministers at my church would come down on the 'right' side of the issues.

[Phoenix61]

18. You are so lucky! I wish there were more

like that. I used to go to a Unity Church and really enjoyed it. Super cool minister then.