Ganley Calls Obama’s Religion ‘Irrelevant’ to Campaign

[ccharles000]

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Cleveland-area Republican House candidate Tom Ganley declined to indicate Thursday whether he thinks President Barack Obama is Muslim.

“I don’t have a position on whether he’s a Muslim,” Ganley said Thursday in a telephone interview with Roll Call.

The wealthy car dealer’s comments came just hours after the Pew Research Center released a poll suggesting that “nearly one-in-five Americans” think Obama is Muslim. The new 18 percent figure is a dramatic upswing from March 2009, when a similar survey put that figure at 11 percent. The study also showed that 43 percent do not “know what Obama’s religion is.”

Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted the Pew survey, which interviewed 3,003 adults between July 21 and Aug. 5.

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[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. O.k.

Well, now we know that not ALL Republicans are completely batsh*t insane- just an awful lot of them. :crazy: The GOP talks about wanting moderate muslims to denounce their extremists but I don't hear them standing up to the extremists in their own camp about - at least not until they themselves get purged from the party by their extremists. While, of course, it's true that a group of Republicans hasn't flown planes into buildings and literally killed thousands of people...yet, there has definitely been a recent spate of right-wing domestic terrorism that appears to have been fueled by their extremists at Fox News and many of their *pundits* have definitely tread damned near close to advocating and/or exhorting violence against their political opponents. I can only hope that the moderates regain some control over the GOP or that it completely self-destructs because some of these people are just about as scary as the they like to try to make your average muslim American seem. Extremism does not recognize political party affiliation nor religious affiliations.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The Constitution prohibits a "religious test" upon elected officials.

Mr. Ganley is correct. The President's religious status IS irrelevant.

[babylonsister]

3. A decent rethug? Nice to see there's one out there. nt