Re: {Political_Views} Santorum resorts to weaving faith into campaign - chiding opponents about their religious beliefs

I can see it now. A man is sitting in a jail cell next to a mean looking guy with a 100 tat's on him.

  "Hey buddy," he say's. "What ya in for. Me I off'd the old lady and the guy she was fucking."

   And you are sitting their and have to make something up because tyou are in jail for possesion of a rubber.

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From: Salty Jamie

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Subject: {Political_Views} Santorum resorts to weaving faith into campaign - chiding opponents about their religious beliefs

Santorum resorts to weaving faith into campaign - chiding opponents about their religious beliefs

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-weaving-faith-into-campaign-santorum-resorts-to-chiding-opponents/2012/02/19/gIQANddFOR_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics

 

 The only Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, said on the campaign trail that "I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish."

 

And so do I.

 

Article VI of the Constitution of these united states of America reads in part: "but no religious Test shall ever be required as a qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." 

 

You see that folks - "...NO RELIGIOUS TEST SHALL EVER BE REQUIRED" for any office" that means all the way down to dog catcher or truant officer.  So let us keep religion out of politics.  Tell Frothy Santorum to keep his religious views to himself - that the don't belong in any public debate over public policy.  You see what he did by sleight of hand?  He claims that if you aren't a Catholic then you aren't a real Christian.  He's bringing religion into this presidential race.  Personally I welcome it......calling all the evangelical right wing nut conservatives what they are - heretics.  But hey that's just me and that's religion not politics.  I believe that conservative Catholics are heretical too.  I believe that Jesus was a progressive liberal.  Again though that's just me and MY reading of the New Testament.  But I don't believe that religion has any reason to be in politics.  If we allow it into our politics then it will only lead to civil war just like in Northern Ireland (Catholics vs Protestants) or Jews vs. Muslims in the Middle East or Shiite vs Sunni in Iraq.  It could lead to the resurrection of the Spanish Inquisition wherein Jews and Protestants were tortured and burned at the stake for being heretics.  Now I like most people - even those who don't follow the true faith and will burn in the fires of hell.  On the other hand who am I to say that God won't change His mind and allow the heretics into heaven.  One never knows.  It's not my decision to make after all "Judge ye not least ye be judged."  So I'm all for live and let live.

 

For all the conservatives in the group who are for small government I ask you this: If you want the government off of your back why then do you want them in womens' reproductive organs.  What business is it of yours if women use contraceptive medications.  You do realize that if Santorum gets his way and the use of contraceptives becomes a states rights issue and the state you live in outlaws contraception then rubbers will become illegal too.  It's not just a womens' issue then is it?  The Catholic church and therefore also Santorum, wants to abolish not only abortion but contraception too.  Getting lucky will take on a whole new meaning. 

 

What I want to know is this: You folks talk about "Freedom" so much why then is it that you want freedom for yourself but want to restrict it for everyone else's.  You're so worried about Obama care taking away your "freedom" for your health care decisions you can't see that you are trying to take away everyone else's "freedom" to choose when or weather to conceive. 

 

Understand this: Your religious convictions - and how they impact upon me and others - ends at your nose.  My religious convictions end at the end of my nose too.

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