Rick Perry PAC Staffer: Does God Really Want a Female President?

[kpete]

On Wednesday, Perry's political action committee, RickPAC, announced that Jamie Johnson had joined as senior director. According to The Des Moines Register, Johnson will be working for RickPAC in Iowa and other early Republican primary states.

Johnson, an ordained minister, is a former radio broadcaster who previously served as the director of outreach for Iowa Right to Life and the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition.

In 2012, he served as Iowa coalitions director for former Sen. Rick Santorum's (R-PA) presidential campaign. During that campaign cycle, The Des Moines Register reported an email Johnson sent to a friend in which he said that children's lives would be in danger if the country elected a female president.

"The question then comes, 'Is it God's highest desire, that is, his biblically expressed will,…to have a woman rule the institutions of the family, the church, and the state?" Johnson wrote in the email.




http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/jamie-johnson-rick-perry-female-president

[hifiguy]

1. Who gives a flying eff what an imaginary being wants?

May as well wonder about Batman's thoughts on the matter.

And Elizabeth Warren would make a perfectly excellent president.

[smirkymonkey]

24. LOL!

Seriously, Does Santa Claus want a batshit crazy republican for president? Who the eff cares? It's a pointless question.

[SharonAnn]

25. I think She does want a female president.

[on point]

26. Nicely put. Though if god did exist, I agree she would want a female to run things

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. Repeat after me, no difference in the parties, no difference in the parties

lull yourself to sleep with it

[liberal_at_heart]

4. Lull yourself to sleep with the fact that there is no middle class anymore.

There cannot be social justice without economic justice.

[hifiguy]

13. There is a difference on social issues

but the difference in terms of economic policy/corporatism is now too small to be measurable save in terms of multiples the Planck length (about a billionth of a billionth of a meter).

And once the populace is finally reduced to complete corporate serfdom the social issues won't matter much if at all.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

14. And the social issues are HUGE unless they dont effect you, then I could see why you would

sluff them off so easily, if that is what you are doing

[liberal_at_heart]

15. What about all the single mothers out there that are living in poverty? How about all the

African Americans and Latinos out there living in poverty? Are minorities living in poverty not social issues? They are one in the same. You cannot have one without the other so stop demonizing people who want both social justice and economic justice.

[justhanginon]

3. Why wouldn't she desire a woman president? Not sure what biblical

qualifications are desired but I know many women who would certainly be most fit and able to fill the job. Much better qualified than the current occupants pf the clown limo!

[Retrograde]

10. God seens to have no problem with female prime ministers or monarchs

or presidents of other countries, for that matter. I don't see why the US should be an exception.

[LiberalElite]

19. You don't see why the US should be an exception?!???!!!??!?!?!????? Why, it's

because we're exceptional, you know, American Exceptional?

[FiveGoodMen]

12. The "god" he's talking about put out a book

and it says things like this:

"Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says."

That's 1st Corinthians 14:34 -- in the NEW testament.

So he's not wrong about what his "god" wants.

He's entirely wrong to believe such a god exists. But he's got a lot of company there!

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. God is not a citizen, and so can not vote.

So the question is irrelevant.

[Thinkingabout]

6. If God doesn't want a female president he doesn't want Perry for sure.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. The God Botherers return.

[Sheepshank]

8. I asked Him just the other day, and as it turns out He doesn't care one way or the other. n/t

[KamaAina]

9. Well, why doesn't he ask Her?

[gratuitous]

11. Well, this could be interesting

Liz Mair got cashiered by the Scott Walker campaign earlier this week for calling the Bible banging hayshakers of Iowa a bunch of Bible banging hayshakers. The lesson being, I guess, that you better not bad-mouth Iowans. We'll see if Rick Perry's campaign will continue to employ Mr. Johnson or whether his stupid comment (Children's lives in danger because of a female president? Really, Jamie?) will lead to his suddenly acquiring a lot of free time.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. You can always count on a Republican to say something stupid

Especially one in the Rick Perry camp.

[C_U_L8R]

17. Who is Rick Perry to question God's will?

She's gonna be mighty pissed.

[SomethingFishy]

18. Yup.. told me herself.

Elizabeth Warren.

[Rex]

20. What are the arguments against god wanting a woman president? I've never heard any.

And at the end of the article he contradicts himself (says Thatcher did a better job than a man could do) so why the fuck should I care what he says? Obviously he can lie about what god wants and then contradict his lie, so that makes him completely unreliable imo.

I wonder if his followers ever notice he lies and lies and lies? Probably pathological for him by now. Probably a big fan of Alex Jones.

[Arugula Latte]

21. Ya know, imaginary friends are fine when you're a child ...

but at some point it's good to grow up.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. This ^ ^ ^

[dembotoz]

22. churchs out there were women have no leadership-statement completely in line with them

folks actually believe this shit
not controversial to a whole bunch of people

a black is easier for some of them to swallow than a woman

[Spider Jerusalem]

27. I don't know, somehow god refrained from smiting England when Elizabeth I ascended to the throne?

They did pretty well in fact, as I recall.

Somehow god didn't see fit to strike Israel when Golda Meir was prime minister, either. Or the UK under Thatcher. Or Germany under Merkel. Even Pakistan and Bangladesh (which are, in case anyone needs to be reminded, MUSLIM countries) have had female prime ministers. That this is still a thing for some Americans in this day and age is just depressing.

[LiberalElite]

28. God doesn't vote. end of story nt

[treestar]

29. The President rules the institutions of the family, the church and the state?

Check the constitution, Perry staffer. What idiots.