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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans Attack Climate Change Science by Comparing It to Religion
Republicans have finally twigged to the fact that people aren't buying the "I'm not a scientist" schtick, so they've had to find a new one. From The New Republic:
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum demonstrated the line in a speech on Thursday. Santorum, who uses his religion to justify policies such as discriminating against gay people and outlawing abortion in all circumstances, accused President Barack Obama of being motivated by the so-called religion of environmentalism. [Obama] is against fossil fuels, for his own, in my mind, quasi-religious reasons, which is not a rationale," Santorum said. "If someone would go forward and put forth a religious idea as to how we should regulate the environment, and it was based on a Christian or other types of religious (ideas), they would be condemned up and down."
Similar remarks seem to be circulating within the GOP.
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Even South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the Senates few Republicans willing to acknowledge climate change exists, made the dogmatic comparison in a speech last week: The problem is Al Gore's turned this thing into religion."
You just can't make this shit up!!!!!
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Republicans Attack Climate Change Science by Comparing It to Religion (Original Post)
LongTomH
Mar 2015
OP
This is a wookie from the planet Endor. Therefore, global warming is not true.
cheapdate
Mar 2015
#1
That deserves to be on a photo of American dumbasses and posted on Social media.
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2015
#3
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)1. This is a wookie from the planet Endor. Therefore, global warming is not true.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)2. America's natural reserves of stupidity
dwarf the rest of the world combined.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)3. That deserves to be on a photo of American dumbasses and posted on Social media.
High five, hifiguy!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. Thanks!