John McCain prefers a good, God-fearin' CHRISTIAN president.....

[marmar]

Too bad it won't be his ass. :nopity:



From AP, via HuffPost:


WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain said in an interview published Saturday that he would prefer a Christian president over someone of a different faith, calling it "an important part of our qualifications to lead."

In an interview with Beliefnet, a multi-denominational Web site that covers religion and spirituality, the Republican presidential hopeful was asked if a Muslim candidate could be a good president.

"I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles ... personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith," McCain said. "But that doesn't mean that I'm sure that someone who is Muslim would not make a good president."

Later, McCain said, "I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the candidate best able to lead the country and defend our political values."

Asked about Republican rivals Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, McCain said, "I think that Governor Romney's religion should not, absolutely not, be a disqualifying factor when people consider his candidacy for president of the United States."

The Arizona senator was also asked about the confusion over which Christian denomination he belongs to. "I was raised Episcopalian, I have attended the North Phoenix Baptist Church for many years and I am a Christian," McCain said. He added that he has considered being baptized in the Baptist church, but he does not want to do it during the presidential race because "it might appear as if I was doing something that I otherwise wouldn't do."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070930/mccain-faith/

[hisownpetard]

1. McCain has sunk to a new low! (Didn't think that was possible, but...) nt

[Cha]

7. Oh, mccain says

"stay tuned for more sinkage..this is the tip of the melting iceberg.."

[hisownpetard]

10. Continued: "However, I do not mean to imply that global warming is causing it."

[Cha]

12. True dat..

mccain has a big slash through any talk of Global Climate Change..that wouldn't go along with his repuktard presidential ambitions.

So called real "Christians" don't need no stinkin' monitering on pollution.."there's a god that will make everything okay if we can just wipe out all other false gods." paraphrasing here.

[saltpoint]

2. What a pandering mess John McCain has become.

[PghTiny]

3. Read your Constitution, McCain

Article 6 Paragraph 3

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Ammendment 1

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[DesertRat]

4. McCain is a fraud

[hisownpetard]

11. Caption: The Messiah & The Repentant Smurf

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5. McCain also considering wearing Mormon garments, getting a circumcision,

undoing his current circumcision, becoming celibate, not eating beef, eating beef but not pork, praying to Wiccan priestesses, washing in the Ganges....just depends on which group he is speaking to this week.

[Snotcicles]

6. See what decades of pandering and soul selling will reduce one to. nt

[Joe Bacon]

8. Doesn't that fool mean "Chri$tian"????

Like every other phony asshole Republican, Johnnyboy bullshits about Je$u$, but he really worships Ayn (as in Mine) Rand!

[TankLV]

9. Of course, the fact that Isalm inlcudes Christ as one of it's prophets and thusly can be considered

"based" on Christianity - just going beyond it with their own newer prophet, completely escapes him...

or maybe I've read this wrong...