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Go Michele!
Pelican can't pronounce "chutzpah." And uses it in the wrong context. You can't make it up.
Pelican can't pronounce "chutzpah." And uses it in the wrong context. You can't make it up.
July 9, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada - Presidential candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson charged today in a formal statement through his campaign that the Family Leader "pledge" Republican candidates for President are being asked to sign is "offensive to the principles of liberty and freedom on which this country was founded". Governor Johnson also plans to further state his position against the Family Leader pledge this afternoon in Las Vegas, NV at a speech he will deliver at the Conservative Leadership Conference.
Johnson went on to state that "the so-called `Marriage Vow" pledge that FAMILY LEADER is asking Republican candidates for President to sign attacks minority segments of our population and attempts to prevent and eliminate personal freedom. This type of rhetoric is what gives Republicans a bad name.
"Government should not be involved in the bedrooms of consenting adults. I have always been a strong advocate of liberty and freedom from unnecessary government intervention into our lives. The freedoms that our forefathers fought for in this country are sacred and must be preserved. The Republican Party cannot be sidetracked into discussing these morally judgmental issues - such a discussion is simply wrongheaded. We need to maintain our position as the party of efficient government management and the watchdogs of the "public's pocket book".
"This `pledge' is nothing short of a promise to discriminate against everyone who makes a personal choice that doesn't fit into a particular definition of `virtue'.
While the Family Leader pledge covers just about every other so-called virtue they can think of, the one that is conspicuously missing is tolerance. In one concise document, they manage to condemn gays, single parents, single individuals, divorcees, Muslims, gays in the military, unmarried couples, women who choose to have abortions, and everyone else who doesn't fit in a Norman Rockwell painting.
The Republican Party cannot afford to have a Presidential candidate who condones intolerance, bigotry and the denial of liberty to the citizens of this country. If we nominate such a candidate, we will never capture the White House in 2012. If candidates who sign this pledge somehow think they are scoring some points with some core constituency of the Republican Party, they are doing so at the peril of writing off the vast majority of Americans who want no part of this `pledge' and its offensive language.
Our nation was founded on Christian principles and has existed on christian principles since it's beginning.
Our nation was founded on Christian principles and has existed on christian principles since it's beginning.
It scares me to read all the negative comments about Christians, not only on this site, but around the world!
Which one of the Ten Commandments bothers you so much?
What is wrong with "love your neighbor"?
What is wrong with "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"?
What is wrong with live right and do good, and love the Creator of it all?
Did some self-righteous Christian, who didn't know any better, hurt your feelings? Did it make you rebel against God? Satan's goal = "The thief (Satan) comes only to steal and kill and destroy." John 10:10 - did he win your soul?
Christian principles - What is wrong with freedom of choice? I thought that was what this country was founded on. You can choose God, or not - it's your choice. If someone loves you enough to share his faith with you, consider yourself loved.
t is printed on our money and is in our pledge of allegance..One Nation under God, In God we Trust. Why is it mentioned there
And I think it's time for us to just hand it over to God and say, "God, You're going to have to fix this."
korkyII wrote:Kelly, It is printed on our money and is in our pledge of allegance..One Nation under God, In God we Trust. Why is it mentioned there ?.....korkyII
I have nothing against Christians. Some of my best friends are.
Why is it that people on here call people ignorant and stupid if thier opinion is different from what they believe?
At least those who are believers know they have faults and need the grace of God because of our shortcomings? What other god forgives? And did all of you research online? Or read books by atheists for your references? did you cross reference your materials with books by Christians? Yes, Jesus was a Jew,God first sent him to the Jews,then sent the apostles and Jesus
to all Gentiles(nonjews). Whatever you all believe it seems you same few obviously think you are so much more intelligent and informed, maybe you are very informed as far as how to back up your own rhetoric, because like all humans, we tend to pick a point of view for various reasons and think we are right, then go to only references that back it up so we can point fingers.
"Every speech I give, I talk about the Declaration of Independence, where rights come from God. That's where they come from in this country. It's different than any other country in the history of the world. We said our rights come to each and every one of us from God. That is the source of our power to govern. Yes, the consent of the governed, but where do the people get the power from which to exercise? It's in keeping and trying to pass laws that is consistent with God's law. God gives you the rights. He doesn't give them to you and says, 'Do whatever you want.' He gave them to you and said. Well, look at later on in the Declaration they refer to nature and nature's God. That we are to live by the natural law and God's laws."
"That is what when they talked about the 'pursuit of happiness.' If you go back and read the definition in Webster at the time of the Declaration, or certainly thereafter, what 'happiness' was defined as doing good. Doing good, doing what is moral. So the pursuit of something ordered and morally good is what our founders were saying."
"Which is in other words living your life consistent - taking those rights and living them consistent with God's law. That was the goal and the aim of America. Someone has to speak out and remind Americas who we are. Someone has to get up and we have to say that America, as I said last night, is a moral enterprise."
If you go back and read the definition in Webster at the time of the Declaration