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Sunday, January 15, 2012

This is a NATION, not a religion! VOTE RON PAUL!

Ron Paul has the endorsement of a leading evangelic, Dr. James Linzey, president and founder of the Military Bible Association. For those of you Christians, both real and phony who would see this country ruled as a theocracy rather than a constitutional nation, you should heed his words:

“The tell-tale sign of being qualified for the presidency is not faith, but loyalty to the Constitution which defends the open expression of faith. Ron Paul seems to be the candidate most loyal to the Constitution according to the records ...
Having thoroughly examined your political philosophy and finding that your platform is 100% in line with the Constitution of the United States of America, and examining your political record to find that you have consistently upheld the Constitution and thereby faithfully represented your constituency, and studying your statement of faith to find that your faith and religious experience is 100% compatible with Evangelical Christianity and Orthodox Christianity, I hereby endorse you for the Office of the President of the United States of America. I wish you Godspeed!"
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OF NOTE:

Despite Paul polling much better than candidates who received coverage, a montage of mainstream media clips that showed commentators ignoring, and two CNN correspondents admitting to suppressing, coverage of Paul. The Project for Excellence in Journalism found that Ron Paul did in fact receive substantially less coverage than other candidates in the 2012 race. Ron Paul was asked in a Fox News interview "What are they [the media] afraid of?" He answered "They don't want to discuss my views, because I think they're frightened by me challenging the status quo and the establishment."

The Project for Excellence in Journalism released another study in October 2011 further confirming that Ron Paul has been receiving disproportionately low coverage in the media

During the November 12 CBS/National Journal Debate, Paul was allocated 90 seconds speaking time. Paul's campaign responded, saying, "Congressman Paul was only allocated 90 seconds of speaking in one televised hour.


ANY, yes, including Christian 'conservatives' , should be OUTRAGED that ANY candidate is being intentionally sidelined! Just think where Paul would be (first instead of second!) if he had been treated fairly.

THAT is what scares 'em to death!

Paul has received endorsements from:

Political parties


Press


Organizations
Iowa
New York
  • Tea Party Coalition of Western New York[92]
  • Allegany County Tea Party of New York[93]
  • Buffalo Liberty Tea Party of New York[93]
  • Monroe County Tea Party of New York[93]
  • Ontario County Tea Party of New York[93]
  • Steuben County Tea Party of New York[93]


Party officials
Democratic Party officials
Republican Party officials
  • Cory Adams, Republican chairman of Story County in Iowa[95]
  • Josh Davenport, Republican co-chair of Clay County in Iowa[96]
  • David Fischer, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee[97]
  • Heath Hill, former Republican chairman of Story County in Iowa[98]
  • Drew Ivers, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee[97]
  • Jeremiah Johnson, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee[91]
  • James Mills, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee[97]
  • A.J. Spiker, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee and former Republican chairman of Story County[98]
  • Kris Thiessen, Republican chair of Clay County in Iowa[96]


Current U.S. Senators and Congresspeople


Governors


Current state legislators
New Hampshire
  • Jim Forsythe, New Hampshire State Senator[105]
  • Andy Sanborn, New Hampshire State Senator[106]
  • Ray White, New Hampshire State Senator[107]
  • Anne Cartwright, New Hampshire State Representative (Cheshire, District 2)[108]
  • Jenn Coffey, New Hampshire State Representative (Merrimack, District 6)[109]
  • Seth Cohn, New Hampshire State Representative (Merrimack, District 6)
  • Tim Comerford, New Hampshire State Representative[109]
  • Guy Comtois, New Hampshire State Representative (Belknap, District 5)
  • Cameron DeJong, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 9)[105]
  • Phil Greazzo, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 17) and Manchester Ward 10 Alderman[110]
  • J.R. Hoell, New Hampshire State Representative (Merrimack, District 13)[111]
  • Paul Ingbretson, New Hampshire State Representative (Grafton, District 5)[112]
  • Kyle Jones, New Hampshire State Representative (Rochester)[113]
  • Laura Jones, New Hampshire State Representative (Rochester)[109]
  • Robert Kingsbury, New Hampshire State Representative (Belknap, District 4)[114]
  • George Lambert, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 27)[115]
  • Robert Malone, New Hampshire State Representative (Belknap, District 5.)[116]
  • Jonathan S. Maltz, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 27)[117]
  • Donna Mauro, New Hampshire State Representative[109]
  • Andrew Manuse, New Hampshire State Representative[118]
  • Paul Mirski, New Hampshire State Representative (Grafton, District 10)[119]
  • Keith Murphy, New Hampshire State Representative (Bedford)[120]
  • Laurence Rappaport, New Hampshire State Representative[121]
  • Kevin Reichard, New Hampshire State Representative[122]
  • Lisa Scontsas, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 22)[123]
  • Tammy Simmons, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 17)[109]
  • Kathy Souza, New Hampshire State Representative[124]
  • Norman Tregenza, New Hampshire State Representative[105]
  • Lucien Vita, New Hampshire State Representative (Middleton)[113]
  • Carol Vita, New Hampshire State Representative (Middleton)[113]
  • Mark Warden, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 7)[109]

According to Forsythe, Paul has received support from twenty New Hampshire state representatives as of early July 2011.[125]

North Carolina
Idaho
Iowa
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Washington
  • Cary Condotta, Washington State Representative[138]
  • Matt Shea, Washington State Representative[139]
Wyoming
  • Kendell Kroeker, Wyoming State Representative (House District 35)[140]


Former Cabinet members, diplomats, and other officials


Political activists


Former Judges


Former CIA Officers
  • Michael Scheuer, a former CIA intelligence officer who served as the Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station from 1996 to 1999, and Special Advisor to the CIA's bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004.[153]


Businesspeople


Academia


Celebrities and commentators

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Friday, April 03, 2009

Politics and Religion, Poisoning the National Debate

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution........

What influence in fact have ecclesiastical establishments had on Civil Society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the Civil authority; in many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny: in no instance have they been seen the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.” James Madison, the Federalist papers.


I have tried, and generally succeeded at staying clear of religious debate within political discussions. But lately, an ugly trend has appeared in ‘conservative’ circles. A lot of good ‘conservative’ right wingers are bashing Mormons very much like Atheists bash all Christianity. My observation over several decades and many churches is that there are two kinds of people you find in any church...saints and sinners. Many of these over zealous ‘Christians’ just can’t admit which category they fall into. Hint...you won’t find a handful of ‘Saints’ in all of them and I certainly don’t fall into that category.

Those who would force upon us their ‘true religion’ do not notice that the borders are open to terrorism, that a socialist is in the white house, that our economic system is gone. They only want a cure for Mormonism! At a time when our only success can be unity, they seek to divide us further.

I have little doubt that scripturally and historically the case for some sects being the ‘true church’ rather than the Mormon religion can be made. That is not what concerns me or what concerned the founding fathers when this nation was formed. I will not argue dogma or scripture because there is no end to it and it is irrelevant in a constitutional republic. Those discussion should be outside the political arena.

Bill of Rights, Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

In this republic, the founding fathers took the issue of religion out of all policy making except to expressly provide for each of us to worship as we chose and for the government to stay out of it. If a church is no immediate threat to me or my country, it is simply none of my business. I want patriots, men of good will toward one another. I’ve found them in ALL religions and races. More often than not, I find them from the Mormon Church......not preaching dogma, but proudly standing beside a sinner like me in defense of our nation. I was disappointed that some of them supported Mitt Romney simply because he is Mormon. I found more of them supporting other candidates who were not. There is plenty reason for no conservative to support Romney, but his religious leaning should not be one of them. This only represents the reverse side of the same bigoted coin. We saw it when John Kennedy was maligned for being ‘Catholic’.

Still, many insist on voting for representatives of our government based solely on ethnicity or religion, based solely on their own emotional attachment or revulsion to a particular sect. This is how tyrants are born. This is how we elect ‘rock stars’ instead of statesmen.

Divide and conquer. The oldest tactic on earth, and still the masses fall for it every time. Don’t we see enough division in our government over race, gender, etc? Must religion be included in this after the founding fathers warned us repeatedly of such a danger?

Divide and conquer. We’ve pushed that silly notion so far that atheism and environmentalism have been given religious status. Secularism has
surpassed the faithful in numbers. And why not? The Catholics and Baptists hate the Mormons. The extreme right evangelicals hate the Jews.
And the Muslims? Well, they hate us all!

Ben Franklin said, “ We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. ...”

And he is STILL right!

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