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busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 08:31 PM Apr 2013

When do we stop repeating what these nuts are saying?

They are fundamentally out of their minds and practically all of MSM on the right and especially on the left always give these fucked up stories a huge amount of coverage.

A couple of idiotic North Carolina House Members call for a mandatory State Religion and it spreads like wildfire throughout our political world. This gives these ridiculous stories more and more credence.

Thats why I’m posting this:
From..Salon. Com.
“Forget the theocracy North Carolina”
By.....Elizabeth Williams

"The North Carolina push comes at a time when bozos like Tim Huelskamp, a Republican congressman from Kansas, can still declare their political choices are dictated not by the common good but “the Judeo-Christian model God ordained.” Yet the cold hard truth is that white American Jesus just isn’t as influential as he used to be. Last month, a University of California, Berkeley, study revealed that one in five Americans have “no religious preference” — double the number who were undeclared in 1990. And though one third of Americans identify as conservative Protestant, those numbers hardly say, “Let’s make a whole damn state officially one big Baptist potluck,” now, do they?"

And that’s why North Carolina’s absurd little stunt is so pitiful. It represents a desperate power grab, a huffing and puffing and a “We’re still here, Lord!” against the backdrop of a nation that is increasingly less religious, and in particular, less Christian. And regardless of how or even if we Americans worship, we didn’t sign up for a theocracy here. This isn’t what America – and that even includes North Carolina — was ever meant to be.

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/03/forget_the_theocracy_north_carolina/


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When do we stop repeating what these nuts are saying? (Original Post) busterbrown Apr 2013 OP
hey we need to be more bipartisan and accept their ideas as valid, ok? :-) nt msongs Apr 2013 #1
Better to talk about what the whackos are doing Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2013 #2
You took the words right out of my mouth.. busterbrown Apr 2013 #3
religion kardonb Apr 2013 #5
I think Jesus had a name for these religeous legislatures Isoldeblue Apr 2013 #4
Why stop when we can laugh and call them nuts? Thegonagle Apr 2013 #6
It'd help if the WH would stop using RW frames of reference, too. blkmusclmachine Apr 2013 #7
It is kind of alarming that actual elected legislators treestar Apr 2013 #8
Majority of voters in their districts stand by their sides! busterbrown Apr 2013 #9
Now it is not so local treestar Apr 2013 #10
It is all about them playing to the base for the next election davidpdx Apr 2013 #11

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,394 posts)
2. Better to talk about what the whackos are doing
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 08:47 PM
Apr 2013

and letting everybody else take notice of it as well. What people don't know they can't fight/change. The problem is that some things like this will actually become law and the rest of us will have to live with the consequences thereof. People need to know what their whackadoodle legislators are doing on their dime.

Granted, though, it would be nice if these stories included some people/groups actually speaking out against and criticizing absurd ideas like these. I normally just hear about the loons and no real response or pushback, which I'm sure is there but we're not really hearing about it.

Thegonagle

(806 posts)
6. Why stop when we can laugh and call them nuts?
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 04:32 AM
Apr 2013

This is as blatantly unconstitutional as it gets. There is no credence being given. NOBODY is going for it.

It spreads so quickly because it's so ridiculous that it's funny.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
8. It is kind of alarming that actual elected legislators
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 01:22 PM
Apr 2013

consider things like this. Such nuts should not be able to get elected dogcatcher. That there are enough people to vote them into a state legislature is a bit unsettling. It is good they get national coverage and embarrasses the voters in that district.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
10. Now it is not so local
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 02:27 PM
Apr 2013

Their idiocy is nationally recognized. They might learn their ideas are not the norm.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
11. It is all about them playing to the base for the next election
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 10:10 AM
Apr 2013

If you think about it, they are a bit like Kim Jong Un. All bark and no bite.

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