GOP House Candidate Says God Created Autism, Dementia And Tornadoes To Punish Gays

[meegbear]

Source: TalkingPointsMemo.com

An Illinois Republican running for Congress believes God has unleashed debilitating disorders and destructive natural disasters because he is so upset with the growing support for gay rights.

If you're afflicted with autism or dementia, or if you've lost your worldly possessions due to a tornado, Susanne Atanus thinks you should blame the LGBT community.

"God is angry," Atanus told the Chicago Daily Herald during an endorsement session with the paper earlier this week. "We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions,” she said. “Same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS. If it’s in our military it will weaken our military. We need to respect God.”

Atanus is seeking the GOP nomination to challenge Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) in the Ninth District of Illinois.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/susanna-atanus-illinois-republican-gay-marriage-autism-dementia-tornadoes

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. Her name sounds almost like an email address...

[e-mail]

[trusty elf]

10. God told me that if you rearrange the letters of Susanne Atanus's name....

you get:

Satan Uses A Nun

[IMG][/IMG]

or

Use An Ant's Anus



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[Kelvin Mace]

12. I got

[e-mail]

[volstork]

41. HA!

[liberal N proud]

2. I thought that is why GOD created the GOP

Was to punish everyone for the sins of a few.

[pangaia]

14. Wrong, God did not create the GOP.

She creates disasters BECAUSE of the GOP.
Trying to tell them something, but they don't get it....yet.

[SummerSnow]

3. Stupid fucking party.

Anyone who votes for her should never be allowed to vote.

[Enrique]

4. and the storm on the East Coast

that's Thor's doing.

[Thor_MN]

13. Wasn't me

Didn't do it.

[Ikonoklast]

47. You let the Frost Giants win with that attitude.

[theHandpuppet]

22. And the flooding in the UK

According to one of their own brand of RW whackos.

[Voice for Peace]

58. that would be on account of the gay little leprechauns

and the pot at the end of their rainbows

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Prove it.

[tanyev]

6. And what about all those God-fearing fundies who deal with autism, dementia, or natural disasters?

The omniscient, omnipotent God she believes in is incapable of targeting only the people who are supposedly causing his anger?

[theHandpuppet]

21. God rages indiscriminately

We he gets pissed, he takes us all out.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. When we anger the gods, the volcano erupts.

Same logic, different culture. And people like to think we're so learned and wise today. We've still got people living in the Stone Age.

[Laxman]

43. It Doesn't Work That Way?

Don't they think that perhaps its a sign THEY should start treating people better and more compassionately?

[SamKnause]

8. Oh the stupidity

This "God" you speak of sounds confused.

Why not destroy the gays, instead of punishing the innocent and destroying the earth ????

I guess this "God" you speak of is as hate filled as you.

Stupidity on display !!!!

Oh to live in a time when this destructive, hate filled, religious nonsense no longer exists !!!!!!!!!!!

[niyad]

50. as I love pointing out to the fundies around here (of whom there are a multitude!), their god is

a psychopath.

[SamKnause]

52. Agree

[Swede Atlanta]

9. I have come to the conclusion.....

that most of the nuttiest "whackos" that run for office actually have no interest in actually being elected or, heaven forbid, actually working were they to be elected.

I think they see their candidacy as their opportunity to say the most outlandish things - things they know the majority in their constituency don't believe or wouldn't support in a candidate.

Yes we know that the majority of pukes don't believe in evolution or climate change. But pukes nationally only have one in 4-5 that self-identify as such. So even if the majority of her base believe this stuff it isn't the majority in her district. That is especially true in a state like Illinois that has fairly consistently been governed by Democrats. There should be few true "red" districts there.

But her claims that same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS is simply not true. AIDS is primarily a heterosexual disease globally. It continues to be prevalent in discrete pockets in American society including younger gay men, IV drug users and increasingly women in the African-American community. AIDS itself is not increasing as HIV infections are identified earlier and treated fairly effectively with drug cocktails.

AIDS will not weaken our military. If someone in the military is determined to be infected the military will deal with that either considering it a reason to be unqualified for service and issue an honorable medical discharge or will treat the individual and have them carry on as before. I know several men who have been HIV+ for over 20 years and are living highly productive lives and only their closest friends even know they are infected.

[icymist]

29. I think you're right that she's using her candidacy as a speaking platform.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_9th_congressional_district

The ninth Congressional District looks to have voted blue since 1963.

[RoccoR5955]

11. They keep forgetting...

that god ain't nothing but dog spelled backwards!

[Stuart G]

15. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) will not lose (of course)

She is my Congressperson...very very safe district. generally very progressive...

But, ...I am so happy that the GOP is really coming out of the woodwork, like bugs and mites, and roaches, and slime.
Good, everyone of these wonderful examples of the GOP, that gets so much publicity, as he/she is apt to do, gets us closer to taking over congress. When the real truth comes out about Christie, and I think it will, (I hope so) that will really help. They trusted that asshole, he was their next great hope, and now, they see who he really is, slime. (no offense to slime) The very worst kind of person, as is this fool running against Schakowsky.

[mountain grammy]

19. Sometimes, it seems running for office as a Republican is just an audition for Fox news.

[Julian Englis]

16. Sounds like any other of today's more moderate Republicans

Hard to tell the difference between any of them if you ask me.

[Butterbean]

17. Yes, my son is autistic and my dad has debilitating dementia because of TEH GHEYS.

There is not enough swearing on the planet right now to appropriately convey my thoughts on this matter.

[Maeve]

20. God has really bad aim--keeps hitting the wrong targets!!! eom

[FiveGoodMen]

66. ...and the minister said to his golfing buddy...

"If you swear one more time, God will smite you."

But his partner didn't listen and on the next putt exclaimed, "Damn it! Missed again!"

Just then the heavens roared and lightening lashed out and struck the minister dead.

And a voice from the sky exclaimed, "Damn it! Missed again!"

[Lamonte]

23. Islam

The dreaded same sex is prohibited in many middle east countries and they have as many disaters as the rest of the world. Why is God punishing them?

[olddad56]

24. The God of my understanding doesn't punish people, My God is a loving God....

My God doesn't forgive people either. My God doesn't have to forgive people, My God doesn't condemn people to begin with.

People punish people, and some people forgive other people.

My God is only about loving energy and available to all, regardless of their religion or beliefs.

This man's God is a figment of his warped imagination. He would benefit from knowing what God is really about.

[niyad]

51. unfortunately, this particular nutbar is a woman, but you are correct about her needing to learn

what deity really is (as do all of them, actually)

I just say, "my goddess is a loving goddess, so sorry about your god, the psychopath"

[neverforget]

25. a bunch of lunatics in that party.

[Ilsa]

26. Oh, fuck her. nt

[lapfog_1]

27. Ah, another member of the Westboro Baptist Church running for office -n/t

[RussBLib]

28. just another example of what religion does to people

there is no end to the stupid

[toby jo]

30. Sounds like our pal Batty Bachman

[TimeToEvolve]

31. i wouldn't even bother giving any thought to their message or getting even slightly offended,

they're attention- needy ignoramuses, in fact feel sorry for these morons.

for thousands of years, religion was the dominant ideology of the land, then science and evidence-based critical thinking began gaining ground in the Age of Enlightenment . slowly but surely people started leaving religious faith-systems to adopt critical thinking, those capable of thinking for themselves were the first to leave.

throughout the 1800's to the present, more and more scientific discoveries set into place the credibility of evidence-based critical thinking, gaining the respect of even more people. as reasonable people left the faith systems for more rational assertions and the most devout stayed behind, those who stayed behind relied upon increasingly irrational claims to back up their beliefs; they have such a strong crank magnetism.

the Rapture Right is a shrinking circle of ever increasing irrationality and willful ignorance, it must stink to be within that set.

[Beacool]

32. The GOP sure breeds them, don't they?

[Springslips]

33. And then God sent the tornadoes

To Oklahoma and Kansas, the home of homophobic God fearing men, to punish them. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, not a tornado has been seen.

Seriously. It would be a little less crazy to say tornadoes are God's punishment for homophobia.

[Paladin]

34. What a small, hateful God these pathetic people choose to worship. (nt)

[olddad56]

36. LIVE spelled backward is EVIL......

These people are living their lives backward. They are projecting their ego onto their idea of God and then believing that God will punish everyone who doesn't agree with them.

One of the perils of attending many of the churches in this country. They preach this sort of crap, and the lemmings believe it.

[tavalon]

40. Isn't it?

I'm pantheistic, so I let a lot of different deities play in my sandbox, but Yahweh is not allowed. He doesn't play well with others. It's a wonder his son turned out so well.

[armed_and_liberal]

35. huh.. I thought God created tornadoes because it hates trailers.

The things you learn from Republicans!

[tavalon]

39. LOL

I actually lived in a trailer that got hit by a small (Florida twisters are usually small) tornado. Luckily, we were huddled in the correct side of the trailer. I guess God loved us.

[theHandpuppet]

37. Hey, she's a mere amateur!

Catholic Bishop Thomas Paprocki performed an exorcism on the whole state of Illinois because of gay marriage!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-illinois-gay-marriage-law-draws-exorcism-in-springfield-20131120,0,2874258.story
Bishop: Lawmakers 'morally complicit' in sins of same-sex couples
Clout Street
7:01 a.m. CST, November 21, 2013

A Catholic bishop offered prayers of exorcism Wednesday in response to Gov. Pat Quinn's approval of an Illinois gay marriage law, and he suggested politicians are "morally complicit" in assisting the sins of same-sex couples.

Bishop Thomas Paprocki spoke Latin to send the message, "Be gone, Satan, father of lies, enemy of human salvation. Give way to Christ."

The head of the Springfield Diocese delivered his remarks to a large crowd of worshippers in the cavernous Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception only blocks from the Capitol, where lawmakers approved the same-sex marriage legislation two weeks ago.

"I exorcise you, every unclean sprit, every power of darkness, every incursion of the infernal enemy, every diabolical legion, cohort and faction, in the name and power of our Lord Jesus Christ," Paprocki said during the hourlong ceremony 200 miles from the bill-signing celebration in Chicago....

[tavalon]

38. So, Susanna Atanus, why was alopecia created?

What did you do to make God punish you with alopecia?

Since you brought up my son's affliction (autism), I think it's perfectly fair to explore what's on your head, or rather, isn't. Normally, I would just ignore your affliction but you seem to enjoy speaking for God, so....

[Shrike47]

54. I don't think it's alopecia, I think it's her dye job growing out. But why is she turning her back

on the hair color God gave her? Vanity?

[tavalon]

57. It's a bad picture and I don't care enough about her sorry ass to look for others

But I think it's a combination of alopecia at the front and dye job growing out so, if her theory holds, she's a bad, bad, girl. Of course, her theory is crap, but she still sucks. And she had the audacity to include autism, so I consider her fair game.

Vain and vindictive. What a nasty combo.

[tofuandbeer]

42. What an anus...oh.

[tclambert]

44. I never knew tornadoes only hit gay peoples' houses. Huh.

And autism. Apparently only gay families have autistic kids.

I dunno. Seems like his god is a really bad shot with his punishments and smiting and such.

[catbyte]

45. That idiot woman needs to get some Clairol Gray Solution

It'll take care of the lighter hair color from the gray next to her scalp. Believe me, I know, LOL.

[kelliekat44]

46. Yes!!! And he created Barak Obama to punish the GOP. nt

[KamaAina]

48. So there were no Autistic people in Illinois before last year?

So how could I have lived in Chicago in the late '80s?

[Tx4obama]

49. * * * UPDATE

-snip-

UPDATE: 12 p.m. -- Republican leaders came out strong against Atanus Thursday morning. Illinois Republican Chairman Jack Dorgan called on the candidate to end her congressional campaign, saying in a statement: "The offensive statements by Susanne Atanus have no place in the modern political debate, and she has no place on the ballot as a Republican. Her candidacy is neither supported nor endorsed by the leaders of our party, and she should withdraw from the race immediately.”

Adam Robinson, chairman of the Chicago Republican Party, emphasized in another statement that Atanus "is not in any way affiliated with any of our efforts in the Chicago GOP, nor have we ever supported, endorsed, or assisted her in any way at any time."

-snip-

Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/susanne-atanus-gop_n_4652255.html

[niyad]

53. at first glance, I just thought it was one reallllllly bad picture. upon reading the article, I

realized that the ugliness of the soul was quite accurately captured. that is one frightening looking person.

[liberal_at_heart]

55. and what do all these fundies have to say about the illnesses and deaths during

the 1700's and 1800's back in what they would call the good old days? Parents burying most of their children. People dying in their 40's or 50's.

[Shrike47]

56. People with ugly souls (and faces) are entitled to have a candidate too. Not a winning one, though.

[Ken Burch]

59. If true, that would give THE WIZARD OF OZ yet another really interesting subtext. n/t.

[3catwoman3]

60. She wants to run against...

...Jan Schakowsky. Bwahahahahahahahaha!!! Good luck with that. Representative Schakowsky is deserving of the over-used word awesome. I wish she were my rep.

[KinMd]

61. Who are Hurricanes, Earthquakes and Flood meant to punish

I wanna keep this straight..no pun intended.

[sakabatou]

62. As someone who has autism

may he be thrown into hell.

[frwrfpos]

63. remove the at and his name fits him perfectly

[MurrayDelph]

64. If I were to be able to ask her a question

it would be something like this:

"Punishing innocent people for something that they had no part of, sounds like a fairly asshole thing to do. So, are you saying that God is an asshole, or are you the asshole for making up things that you think he did?"

[Hosnon]

65. I didn't realize I was a fucking genie.

No wonder conservatives are afraid of us - they think we're basically gods.