Kerry to ban Bible, according to RNC

[troubleinwinter]

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November.

The literature shows a Bible with the word "BANNED" across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word "ALLOWED." The mailing tells West Virginians to "vote Republican to protect our families" and defeat the "liberal agenda."

"The liberal agenda includes removing `under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance," it says.

Jim Jordan, a spokesman for American Coming Together, described the mailing as "standard-issue Republican hate-mongering."

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-6/109545747696410.xml&storylist=topstories

[JohnKleeb]

1. must not get bad!

That is such crap, why the hell would we want to ban bibles when we got a religous ticket, I pray every day that I can. Jeez I am so sick of them trying to claim religion and call us anti religion.

[johnlal]

18. Republicans are destroying religion

By infusing government money into churches (with strings attached) through "faith based initiatives", by trying to bring generic state sponsored prayers into schools, by enforcing quasireligious "values" on all through legislation from abortion restrictions to marriage laws, by talking about our "values", the republicans are trying to tell us what we have to do to be "religious". This does not always square with our churches' ideas about religion, but they aren't speaking up.

Pretty soon, there will be only one view of religion, the state-sponsored view.

[blondeatlast]

26. But that's exactly what most of them WANT, or so they think.

I'm a UU Christian, and I don't want my religion in my state or the reverse.

State-sponsored is NOT religious liberty.

[physaf]

28. if things keep going the way they have for so long

that might just be true.

[fdr_hst_fan]

29. The Nazis tried the same thing,

only their plan was to eliminate ALL religion! Read "The Rise and Fall of the Thitd Reich" by William L. Shirer-it will explain the actions of the present administration.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. This is disgusting

But then the Repukes are also saying that Democrats aren't patriotic. I expect to have a roundup of us for detention camps if Bush is elected....

[billbuckhead]

6. John Sasso? Carville and Begala? Shrumy? Lockhart?

Here's your opportunity to attack George W Bush's strength and bury this alleged Christian as a fraud.

[meti57b]

3. bush has gone beyond dirty, to filthy

[troubleinwinter]

4. "standard issue Republican hate-mongering"

Knuckle dragging Cretin liars. Don't they feel the American people are EVER owed ANY truth at ALL???

Never mind.

x(

[DAGDA56]

5. The ones who should really be offended...

...are the people of West Virginia! The RNC obviously thinks you Mountaineers are (insert cliche here).

[Ravy]

7. We could counter that they are banning the Constitution!!!

And we would have some proof of it!

[Xipe Totec]

8. Anyone who buys this, is hopelessly brain dead anyway

Does anyone believe there's a single voter out there that will switch their vote from Kerry to Bush based on this dribble?

:shrug:

Anybody who believes this is a die hard Bush supporter already.

:wtf:

And they will die...

O8)

...hard

:evilfrown:

... come November 2nd.


:dem:

[Clinton Crusader]

25. Xipe Totec is right

What person who is considered legally SANE would even entertain this as even POSSIBLY true?

If they do, then they are legally INSANE and should be put away.
:kick:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. They really are shameless.

The worst of it is that some knuckle-dragging pinheads will actually believe this crap. I can easily imagine this sort of dreck bubbling up from the cesspool that is Freerepublic, but it's beyond disgusting that it would turn up in the official literature of a major political party.

I no longer am surprised at anything the Rethuglicans say or do. They used to be a respectable, if reactionary, mainstream party but they have turned into a gang of fascist criminals.

[billbuckhead]

11. The Kerry campaign needs to use this to incite a backlash

Say it's anti-American, anti-Catholic, unChristian, they need to quickly attack back saying it's so dishonest and over the top that it disqualifies Bush to be leader of a diverse nation.

[Gyre]

10. they got no problem lying.

Maybe it comes from not having a soul. BTW, has anybody else noticed that repubs are generally on the uglier side of average?

Gyre

[T Roosevelt]

12. Would like to see Kerry respond thusly

Kerry: <laughing> "That's funny, since we're not the party who wants to keep tabs on your library reading. That would be John Ashcroft and the Republicans."

[jwirr]

33. And add to that

we are not the party that bans books in schools, libraries and other facilities. For years they fought on school boards to ban anything that did not fit their idea of "WASP" enough for the little kiddies.

[KamaAina]

13. Moon made of green cheese, according to RNC

If the RNC said it, it must be true, right? So how come Pizza Hut won't let me have a large with extra lunar green cheese? :-)

[LoZoccolo]

14. Bearing false witness is a sin. n/t

[NightTrain]

15. Then Kerry DEFINITELY has my vote!!!

:evilgrin:

[Deb]

16. Sen. Byrd often quotes the Bible from the Senate floor

I think the West Virginians that voted him in would know that. Perhaps the Senator will say something to his constituents on Kerry's behalf about the matter.

[NJCher]

17. I thought this headline was from The Onion

the slimiest threatening ever.


Cher

[snowFLAKE]

19. Well good for him

I might actually vote for him with a small level of enthusiasm now.

[Catfight]

20. PERFECT! Kerry should hold one of these despicable ads up in

front of the world to OUT the Bush's insane desperate scraping of the bottom of the barrel politics! First the vote for us or you'll die, now the vote for us or the bible will be burned! This is perfect, Kerry should shine a light on them and have every religious leader stand right behind him telling the truth that THIS HAS GONE WAY OVER THE TOP AND MUST STOP!

There is no way, under Kerry, that ANY book would ever be banned and if you want a history, look at Laura Bush, she wants to ban certain books she deems inappropriate.

Oh man, I hope this gets all over the news. Also, the terrorist want nothing more than to have America fight a holy war among ourselves. This should be considered very dangerous propaganda, because the last thing we need is another religious fanatic group bombing abortion clinics and fighting on American soil.

I love this stuff, it is so FAR FAR FAR right that it's outer space!

[Roland99]

21. Anyone have a link to a copy of the flier?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

22. LOL! I am actually using this to send to some of the few Repug

people I know to let them know how stupid their party has become.

[doni_georgia]

23. Standard Repug MO - scare the sheeple

The Republicans rely on the general populace's inability or unwillingness to use that matter between their ears.

[doni_georgia]

24. What I want to know - has anyone checked the post mark?

Maybe I should don my tin foil hat, but anyone else thinking Parlock might have been busy mailing flyers?

[Meshuga]

27. That's the kind of stuff used back in the day against...

Thomas Jefferson.

[AntiCoup2K4]

30. West Virginia, huh?

Anyone wanna bet Phil Parlockkk is involved in this shit somehow? Maybe two of his sons posed as the "gay guys" in the flyer :eyes:

[doni_georgia]

31. Yes, finally someone thinking along the same lines as me!

This guy is clearly dillusional. I want to know where these flyers were postmarked. You can put any damn return address you want on something. The postmark is the giveaway.

[lamster2k]

32. Typical

Well I'm can't say I'm surprised that this is being said. Its even dumber than believing that if Kerry gets elected he'll dissolve the military, allowing an Islamic Fundamentalist Regime take over the government (I've heard that alot, and not just from incredibly stupid people, sometimes even mildly stupid people I know say that). Personally I can't say that God and/or Jesus is either a Republican or Democrat. They're both probably Natural Law kinda guys.

[gator_in_Ontario]

34. Oh boy

thsy must be scared...and if too many people fall for it...we deserve the government we get, I guess

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

35. just a simple kick

:kick:

[Green Lantern]

36. Counter with

the RP is going to balance the budget by raising payroll taxes on lower and middle class taxpayers.