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Right Wing Defends Thompson’s AIDS Callousness: It Is A ‘Good Conservative Reflex’

tpig1.jpgIn a column titled “Callous Conservative” in today’s Washington Post, former Bush White House aide Michael Gerson criticizes Fred Thompson’s stance on international AIDS funding.

At a campaign stop last week, Thompson was asked if he, “as a Christian, as a conservative,” supported President Bush’s global AIDS initiative. Thompson said there are larger “problems” at home and that it was not his “priority” to fund HIV/AIDS efforts in Africa:

Christ didn’t tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it,” Thompson responded. “The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as Christians on the other.”

“I’m not going to go around the state and the country with regards to a serious problem and say that I’m going to prioritize that. With people dying of cancer, and heart disease, and children dying of leukemia still, I got to tell you — we’ve got a lot of problems here…”

But the right wing is outraged at Gerson, rather than Thompson. The American Scene sarcastically refers to Gerson’s “moral clarity.” Over at the National Review, prominent conservative bloggers even went as far as to vigorously defend Thompson’s remarks, suggesting that Africans should be left alone to deal with the problem. Some lowlights:

National Review’s David Freddoso:

Imagine if Africans were twice as wealthy and more African countries had the resources to diagnose and treat their own HIV patients? The resources to care for AIDS orphans?”

National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez:

“I believe [Thompson] was pushing back against the general “what can government do for…?” attitude we have in America. That’s a good conservative reflex, and not a callous one.”

National Review’s Yuval Levin:

I don’t think that means Thompson is callous.”

Thompson recently dismissed U.S. funding of HIV/AIDS programs as a government “handout.” In 1994, he said “too much” was being spent on AIDS research.

As Gerson noted, Thompson’s lack of enthusiasm for helping fight the African AIDS epidemics lacks a “moral seriousness.” HIV/AIDS in Africa kills some 6,000 people a day. Even President Bush has noted the importance of sending “hard-earned dollars overseas to save the lives of people [Americans] have never met.”

By defending Thompson, conservative bloggers proved today that they also “lack a moral seriousness.”

UPDATE: Matthew Yglesias has more.



85 Responses to “Right Wing Defends Thompson’s AIDS Callousness: It Is A ‘Good Conservative Reflex’”

  1. Uncle Ho says:

    It would be JUSTICE if these SOBs were to get AIDS themselves. Out of their own mouths comes thy judgement.


  2. VerbalKint says:

    The people who write for National Review have already proven they are heartless scum whose callous disregard for human life is shocking.


  3. Badmoodman says:

    Look at that photo…Thompson’s doling out the pork already.


  4. wisedup says:

    Thompson whispering: (What is this HIV/AIDS thing anyway?)


  5. ralph the wonder llama says:

    “Christ didn’t tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with.”

    Huh?

    Does he not have handlers?

    Did Republicans learn nothing from the perils of letting Bush speak extemporaneously?


  6. ralph the wonder llama says:

    National Review’s David Freddoso:

    “Imagine if Africans were twice as wealthy and more African countries had the resources to diagnose and treat their own HIV patients? The resources to care for AIDS orphans?”

    Hey, I LOVE this game! Try this one:

    “Imagine if HIV/AIDS didn’t exist and everyone on earth sh!t lollipops and ice cream?”


  7. Bob says:

    “The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as Christians on the other.”

    Yes, gov’t on one the one hand and Christians on the other: separate, as it should be. Does that really sound like separation of church and state from a (R)?


  8. Art says:

    Republicans claim to be religious…
    not moral.


  9. Wayne says:

    “That’s a good conservative reflex”

    If the current meaning of “conservative” is ignoring a deadly incurable disease which kills millions a year and not trying to save lives, if it now means trying to do the opposite of what reasonable people think “Right thing thing to do” is, then call me a flaming radical left winged liberal.

    I already am one I guess, because I want a nation ruled by its Constitution and its Laws, rather than a President and Congress ignoring Rule of Law. Now days that is considered far radical left.

    Funny, most my years I considered myself a centrist and independent.


  10. tom says:

    Look at that photo…Thompson’s doling out the pork already.

    Which one is Thompson?


  11. gummitch says:

    Look at that photo…Thompson’s doling out the pork already.

    Which one is Thompson?

    Comment by tom — January 18, 2008 @ 5:36 pm

    One of them is really young. That one is not Thompson.


  12. gummitch says:

    Or, “Shoat up, Fred!”


  13. Wayne says:

    Which one is Thompson?

    Comment by tom — January 18, 2008 @ 5:36 pm

    One of them is really young. That one is not Thompson.

    Comment by gummitch — January 18, 2008 @ 5:38 pm

    Hint: Thompson is not the brightest of the two.


  14. tom says:

    Look at that photo…Thompson’s doling out the pork already.

    Which one is Thompson?

    Okay, I think I get it. One of them is a stinky, dumb animal; the other one is a pig.

    Have I got that right now?


  15. Wayne says:

    Caption.

    Piglet: “I wish this guy would quit drooling on me, I just had a bath.”


  16. Namtillaku says:

    Christ also didn’t tell us to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent people, doesn’t stop us from doing it does it?


  17. Wayne says:

    Have I got that right now?

    Comment by tom — January 18, 2008 @ 5:40 pm

    LMAO


  18. Bob says:

    I’ve always thought the money spent on Iraq would have been better used on domestic problems. Where was your ‘gut conservatism’ then, Mr.T?


  19. Buckie Boy says:

    I think just maybe the Repukes have just found their real mascot, Elephants just don’t represent them well, pigs, big fat, round hairy pigs are more in tune with them, not the little pink cute one there, the big excrement covered ones are just right.

    Buck Fush


  20. bitblt says:

    To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59751

    Friday, January 18, 2008
    America’s Immune Deficiency Syndrome

    .
    .
    .
    You’ve heard of AIDS – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Is America’s immune system under attack?

    The latest news out of San Francisco is not good.

    A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among homosexual men during sex.

    Does this sound familiar? Shades of the 1980s?

    Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles.

    According to a study done at the University of California, San Francisco, homosexual men are 13 times more likely to contract the disease, which is documented to spread in skin-to-skin contact.
    .
    .
    .

    Is there anything to this?


  21. Wayne says:

    Which ones Thompson?

    Comment by BARTLEBEE — January 18, 2008 @ 5:45 pm

    See #13


  22. gummitch says:

    “Christ didn’t tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it,” Thompson responded. “The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as Christians on the other.”

    So, obviously, what Fred is telling us is that he’s donating his wealth to AIDS research, and that he’s urging his fellow Christians to do the same thing. Way to go, Fred!


  23. Merlin says:

    Comment by Wayne — January 18, 2008 @ 5:33 pm

    Funny, most my years I considered myself a centrist and independent.

    Well, you probably still are. Its the right that has moved pulling the rest rightward. So now the left is the center… Or something like that.


  24. Merlin says:

    Comment by tom — January 18, 2008 @ 5:40 pm

    Look at that photo…Thompson’s doling out the pork already.

    Which one is Thompson?

    Okay, I think I get it. One of them is a stinky, dumb animal; the other one is a pig.

    Have I got that right now?

    LOL! Very funny!


  25. Wayne says:

    Is there anything to this?

    Comment by bitblt — January 18, 2008 @ 5:46 pm

    Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a antibiotic resistant strain of the staph bacteria. It does not have a damn thing to do with AIDs other than Aids Patients are more likely to catch it because of their immune deficiency.

    It is also called a “flesh eating bacteria”.
    It is nothing new and not only “teh gays” get it

    This article is pure trash and is greatly twisting any true facts to distort the truth and promote fear of homosexuality.


  26. Doofus says:

    “Christ didn’t tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it,”

    Uh….what? “Christ didn’t tell us”…..(snip)….”He told us….”

    WTF does this say?


  27. bitblt says:

    Comment by Wayne — January 18, 2008 @ 5:53 pm

    Thanks!

    Is it accurate that that homosexual men are 13 times more likely to get it?
    Or,
    would it be more accurate to say that AIDS patients are more likely to get?


  28. Badger says:

    Ronald Reagan had a similar attitude towards AIDS in the 80’s , until his buddy Rock Hudson died from it. By then, a plague that could have been nipped in the bud by sane public health policies had spread to a worldwide pandemic. Compassionate Conservatism in Action.


  29. gummitch says:

    Is there anything to this?

    Comment by bitblt — January 18, 2008 @ 5:46 pm

    Not much, at least not in the way you seem to think.

    When it comes to spreading the bacteria, it is not homosexuals we have to worry about. It is that much wider swath of the male population examined in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the journal, the medical researchers were not studying gays, they were studying the St. Louis Rams. That is correct: football players; in particular, linebackers.

    “In our investigation,” the journal noted, “infection occurred only among linemen and linebackers, and not among those in backfield positions, probably because of the frequent contact among linemen during practice and games.” Those rug burns I mentioned are in fact turf burns. “All MRSA skin abscesses developed at sites of turf burns,” declared the journal.

    The study revealed another problem: All football people are not that clean. “We also observed a lack of regular access to hand hygiene,” wrote the authors, “for trainers who provided wound care; skipping of showers by players before the use of communal whirlpools; and sharing of towels — all factors that might facilitate the transmission of infection in this setting.”

    Focused on just San Francisco and Boston, the staph study in the Archives of Internal Medicine pales next to the one in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is fair to reason that more American men play football than have sex with one another. Authors of the football study concluded that the perilous USA300 strain “was present in diverse regions of the United States.”


  30. tarazan says:

    If Fred does not have a good showing tomorrow in S. Carolina,his campaign might be a history soon…

    If he cannot win in S. Carolina…I don’t know where can he win.

    He came into this very late…and he might have an early exit…


  31. Wayne says:

    would it be more accurate to say that AIDS patients are more likely to get?

    Comment by bitblt — January 18, 2008 @ 5:58 pm

    Anyone can get it if you come into contact with it and your immune system cannot kill it off by itself. It does not matter if you are gay, straight, bi, a hemorphadite or a neuter. Medical fact. Anything else is a distortion.

    This bacteria has been a problem in hospitals for years, not only for Aids patients but for any patient that has had surgery or any hospital stay inducing illness.


  32. gummitch says:

    This bacteria has been a problem in hospitals for years, not only for Aids patients but for any patient that has had surgery or any hospital stay inducing illness.

    Comment by Wayne — January 18, 2008 @ 6:06 pm

    Wrong answer, Wayne. You’re supposed to say that only the disgusting homos will suffer.


  33. Wayne says:

    Wrong answer, Wayne. You’re supposed to say that only the disgusting homos will suffer.

    Comment by gummitch — January 18, 2008 @ 6:09 pm

    Oh, sorry.

    is that the old “truthiness” thing again?


  34. wisedup says:

    Thompson said in S.C. that at least here people don’t say ‘I talk funny’.
    It wasn’t your accent they were talking about idiot.


  35. gummitch says:

    If he cannot win in S. Carolina…I don’t know where can he win.

    He came into this very late…and he might have an early exit…

    Comment by tarazan — January 18, 2008 @ 6:06 pm

    To use a Thompsonism, the man’s as useless as teats on a bull.


  36. Merlin says:

    #18 Comment by BARTLEBEE — January 18, 2008 @ 5:44 pm

    A “good conservative reflex”?

    Is that like a gag reflex?

    That makes sense. A good conservative gag reflex. Foley comes to mind.


  37. Fred says:

    That makes sense. A good conservative gag reflex. Foley comes to mind.

    Comment by Merlin

    from what I’ve seen, you can’t gag them…..


  38. Wayne says:

    from what I’ve seen, you can’t gag them…..

    Comment by Fred — January 18, 2008 @ 6:20 pm

    I don’t want to know how you know……


  39. Fred says:

    Well lie berman is a perfect example….he will hug everything he can’t get in his mouth.


  40. RUCerious says:

    Uh, oh… My daughter and wife both had MRSA skin infections last November. Does that mean that both Lisa and Amber are male homosexuals?


  41. Fred says:

    Off topic:
    Admiral William Falon is on pbs talking about incidents in the gulf of hormuz. I was just thinking that I can’t remember hearing where any other country is having any trouble passing through that area……


  42. gummitch says:

    Uh, oh… My daughter and wife both had MRSA skin infections last November. Does that mean that both Lisa and Amber are male homosexuals?

    Comment by RUCerious — January 18, 2008 @ 6:30 pm

    Maybe football players?


  43. Impolitics says:

    I really think all these “good Christian” Republicans believe that illness is a punishment for sin. Terminal illness is God’s way of weeding out the worst of the “unworthy” and “unclean”.


  44. Nevar says:

    I really think all these “good Christian” Republicans believe that illness is a punishment for sin. Terminal illness is God’s way of weeding out the worst of the “unworthy” and “unclean”.

    Comment by Impolitics

    Yet when they get sick, they quickly blame some thing or some one for their affliction, and when that fails, they will readily blame “god”.
    They seem to be nearly incapable of being accountable or accepting of their circumstances.


  45. hanshiro says:

    Just a spelling correction on TP’s article:

    Over at the National Review, prominent conservative bloggers even went as far as to vigorously defend Thompson’s remarks,

    That should be “primate” conservative bloggers; or bush babies.


  46. Merlin says:

    Comment by Impolitics — January 18, 2008 @ 6:34 pm

    Terminal illness is God’s way of weeding out the worst of the “unworthy” and “unclean”.

    Except when they get sick.


  47. Jackie says:

    Thompson is showing how he feels about the problems in Africa and most likely would look at African Americans the same way. When Bush the Christian Family, Morals Values Republicans saw poor Blacks begging for help during the Katrina Storm it makes since that Thompson would feel the same way. Rev. Huck is ready to put minorities in Pottersville. Look these racist are coming out of the wood work. After Senator Obama showed most Americans aren’t racist the GOP has gone mad. Even Chris Matthews can’t take it anymore. He hates woman and blacks. Don’t worry once we get a Democratic President the GOP racist will go back in their hole until a Republican President is elected again. Look for the reporters who are racist to say their best friend is black, that always comes up to prove a point.


  48. Wayne says:

    Uh, oh… My daughter and wife both had MRSA skin infections last November. Does that mean that both Lisa and Amber are male homosexuals?

    Comment by RUCerious — January 18, 2008 @ 6:30 pm

    I caught it while hospitalized for a bad strain of pneumonia back in 2001 that almost killed me. I still have the scar on the calf of my leg.

    You can ask my ex-wife, ex-girlfriends, and my current girlfriend who does exotic belly dancing/fire-dancing (man, is she HOT!) if I am gay. heh.


  49. Nevar says:

    I’ve read the writing in the smoke, and never had any doubts, Wayne…
    A ho.
    :)


  50. Nevar says:

    Caption:

    “I won’t get worms, will I?
    If I, like, well you know………..”


  51. theswan says:

    Conservative reflex is in the wrist.


  52. Fred says:

    I thought craig had the good conservative reflex.


  53. Xisithrus says:

    Caption contest: “Four legs good, two legs better”


  54. WithUniquity says:

    Yeah he is on my s**t list for saying this, but on the other hand I doubt he will win the presidency.


  55. Wayne says:

    Yeah he is on my s**t list for saying this, but on the other hand I doubt he will win the presidency.

    Comment by WithUniquity — January 18, 2008 @ 7:26 pm

    Never, ever underestimate the utter stupidity of the average American voter.


  56. Nevar says:

    Thompsons going to get the pharmaceutical-dependent faction of the conservative base. “Keep the drugs flowing here at home, where the profit is…”

    Just like Chuckabee’s going to get the rabid christian faction.
    Only they don’t need drugs, cause of the miracles and all…


  57. Xisithrus says:

    Chuckabee’s?

    Thats where the republicans take the kiddies for pizza and games and family fun, right?

    Comment by BARTLEBEE

    Naw, squirells in popcorn machines


  58. Nevar says:

    The republicans are working on a deal to make it a voting place.


  59. Wayne says:

    Chuckabee’s?

    Thats where the republicans take the kiddies for pizza and games and family fun, right?

    Comment by BARTLEBEE

    Naw, squirells in popcorn machines

    Comment by Xisithrus — January 18, 2008 @ 7:50 pm

    LMAO
    Ya’ll quit posting stuff like this while I am drinking coffee.
    It makes a gawd-awfull mess on the computer screen.


  60. Xisithrus says:

    Well, Wayne, I am seriously concerned on who to vote for, the guy who pops squirrels or the guy who puts his fecal dog on the roof of the family vehicle.

    These are important issues.


  61. Impolitics says:

    Deep throats to match their shallow minds? Is that what we’re getting at.


  62. Xisithrus says:

    Deep throats to match their shallow minds? Impolitics

    Hey, just leave Michelle Bachman out of this!


  63. Wayne says:

    Well, Wayne, I am seriously concerned on who to vote for, the guy who pops squirrels or the guy who puts his fecal dog on the roof of the family vehicle.
    Comment by Xisithrus — January 18, 2008 @ 8:03 pm

    Why not the guy that tells us “Jebus is comming!” or the new rock singer ( Bomb, bomb Iran) ?


  64. Fred says:

    Deep throats to match their shallow minds? Impolitics

    Hey, just leave Michelle Bachman out of this!

    Comment by Xisithrus

    and Dana Perino too..


  65. Xisithrus says:

    Why not the guy that tells us “Jebus is comming!” or the new rock singer ( Bomb, bomb Iran) ?

    Comment by Wayne

    Well, the republican swift boat vets said McCain is a traitor and we should believe them since they didnt lie about Kerry!

    [snark]


  66. tom says:

    Caption contest:

    “Are you saying that this isn’t what Jeri means when she wants me to be ‘makin’ the bacon’?”


  67. Jack Jett says:

    After this election and he has to go back and try acting…………

    I assume the same people that would hire a Issaih Washington would be the ones that would hire Thompson.

    I can’t imagine him getting away with such a cold comment.


  68. nabalzbbfr says:

    AIDS is God’s just punishment for moral depravity. AIDS is God’s way of moral purification. God provided Africa with more than 150 years of opportunity to embrace His True Word. They now have to face the consequences of their brazen rejection of His Salvation.


  69. OxyCon says:

    If you don’t believe in government, you have no business running for office.
    Is it any wonder that Repubs make the worst elected officials? They don’t run for office to make government better. They run for office to destroy the government, and they do a fine job of it.
    If you look at all of our major problems today, they were all either created by Repubs or exacerbated by them.


  70. Fred says:

    AIDS is God’s just punishment for moral depravity. AIDS is God’s way of moral purification. God provided Africa with more than 150 years of opportunity to embrace His True Word. They now have to face the consequences of their brazen rejection of His Salvation.

    Comment by nabalzbbfr

    Yeah though I walk through the valley of ignorance, I will acknowledge no reality. I will walk in ignorance and superstition for the rest of my life.


  71. Fred says:

    Comment by OxyCon

    The happiest societies in the world exist where governments are progressive…..no doubt.


  72. Sabyen91 says:

    “AIDS is God’s just punishment for moral depravity. AIDS is God’s way of moral purification. God provided Africa with more than 150 years of opportunity to embrace His True Word. They now have to face the consequences of their brazen rejection of His Salvation.

    Comment by nabalzbbfr”

    Because god is a selfish, vain son of a b!tch. Just like his followers.


  73. TC-12 says:

    Don’t die on us, Grandpa Fred! Please don’t die!!

    I look at poor ol’ Grandpa Fred and am continuously worried the nice ol’ fella might simply kick the bucket on the campaign trail. All that stress on the road to the White House must be overwhelming for someone who’s pushin’, what, 95? Time to look into a nursing home, Grampy Fred…just trying to look after your best interests there, some tough love for ya.


  74. JosephW says:

    AIDS is God’s just punishment for moral depravity. AIDS is God’s way of moral purification. God provided Africa with more than 150 years of opportunity to embrace His True Word. They now have to face the consequences of their brazen rejection of His Salvation.

    Comment by nabalzbbfr — January 18, 2008 @ 10:50 pm

    Maybe you should inform Akinola of this. He’s the “Anglican archbishop” who’s busy stealing “conservative” Episcopalian dioceses here in the US because he hates gays and women (and the US Episcopal Church’s apparent lax treatment of such–even allowing such creatures to become Archbishops–horrors!!).
    In the meantime, while he’s busy with his homophobic, misogynistic rhetoric, hundreds of thousands of straight men and women (who Akinola couldn’t care less about) in HIS continent are becoming infected and dying of this dread disease.
    Of course, I suppose Thompson could be actively promoting the official South African government position on AIDS treatments.


  75. TC-12 says:

    “AIDS is God’s just punishment for moral depravity.”

    If that’s the case, then tornados are “God’s just punishment” for the “moral depravity” of the conservative Christians who run much of Kansas, correct? Can’t have it both ways, bee-otch! Them Kansas bible thumpers routinely get b*tch-slapped by God’s tornados nine ways to Sunday.


  76. Sabyen91 says:

    Tornadoes are Gods punishment for living in trailer parks. Hurricanes are God’s punishment for living on a coast. Blizzards are God’s punishment for living up north. Volcanos are God’s punishment for living near volcanos.


  77. dietrich says:

    Compare and contrast:
    Pigs: One of the more intelligent animals.
    Thompson: Not one of the more intelligent animals.
    Pigs: Were great actors on tv (arnold the pig)
    Thompson: Had a less than stellar acting career.


  78. Quizmos says:

    I think perhaps, the reason that government is in Africa dealing with Aids, to begin with, is that Christians have failed. To then say that nothing should be done, using the vast resources of government, is certainly callous and un-Christian-like in its nature. Where the means of men fell short, Christ used miracles. Certainly, we are expected to use whatever means we have available, that not one of his children suffer as we walk by. That is what the story of the Good Samaritan teaches. The health of Humanity (spiritual, physical, moral), was the mission of Christ.

    It seems that, today, too many of those who would think of themselves as good Christians, turn their backs on the teachings of Christ, in favor of the leadership of men who promise to bring them greater comfort and glory. We seem to have forgotten the wisdom and courage of turning the other cheek, for the false promise of retaliation and revenge even as we pray for peace. We see ourselves as being done unto, rather than studying our own actions. What feels right must be right, because, after all, we are Christians. Indeed, it is a time for reflection and prayer, for we are lost. Perhaps the study and practice of Christ’s teachings in our daily lives is a better route than making our government over into a false Christianity. Who does Christ tell us are the Blessed?


  79. Wayne says:

    AIDS is God’s just punishment for moral depravity. AIDS is God’s way of moral purification. God provided Africa with more than 150 years of opportunity to embrace His True Word. They now have to face the consequences of their brazen rejection of His Salvation.

    Comment by nabalzbbfr — January 18, 2008 @ 10:50 pm

    More proof that so called “Christians” are just plain nucking futz.


  80. Angry McAngus says:

    Thompson needs a better scriptwriter. He sounds much more intelligent in Hunt for Red October, or Law and Order even. I think his current writer must have worked on Deadwood. That was a pretty conservative milieu.


  81. wmhogg says:

    Oh, man! This isn’t even a challenge. Come on, Fred! Just like most other things, you are ill-informed about what Jesus said.

    Sorry guys – I apologize for the quotes, but I can’t resist:

    Mat 25:41 Then He will say to those at His left hand, Begone from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!

    Mat 25:42 For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,

    Mat 25:43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome Me and entertain Me, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me with help and ministering care.

    Mat 25:44 Then they also will answer, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?

    Mat 25:45 And He will reply to them, Solemnly I declare to you, in so far as you failed to do it for the least of these, you failed to do it for Me.

    The Republicans sure love their pro-abortion lobbyist. Apparently, “what Jesus would do” is vote for a Democrat.


  82. Wayne says:

    The Republicans sure love their pro-abortion lobbyist. Apparently, “what Jesus would do” is vote for a Democrat.

    Comment by wmhogg — January 19, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

    Thats why I call these freak trolls “So called ‘Christians’ “.

    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” — Mohandas Gandhi


  83. BloggerRadio.com says:

    Wayne (comment 52 or there abouts) wrote:

    You can ask my ex-wife, ex-girlfriends, and my current girlfriend who does exotic belly dancing/fire-dancing (man, is she HOT!) if I am gay. heh.

    Listen Wayne, YOU might not be Gay, but that comment sure was either ‘gay’ or Republican sounding.


  84. bitblt says:

    Comment by wmhogg — January 19, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

    U.S. is not a theocracy. Why the quotes?

    Besides, if the U.S. were a theocracy, the number one object – the number one objective in the New Testament – would be heralding the evangel – preaching the Gospel. Benevolent efforts would be in support of the first objective, because you can’t preach to someone who’s hungry.

    This is how most Conservative Christian churches do it.


  85. bitblt says:

    How would the tradition of one man one woman, and faithfulness in marriage, have impacted that number of 6,000 deaths a day?

    How close to zero would faithful, monogamous, heterosexual relationships push that death rate?



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