Kevin McCarthy's Wife Says She Is Losing Her 'Right To Be A Christian'

[doxydad]

"People are sympathetic to different things and different causes, but when you bring up Christian, there is no sympathy whatsoever. They do not think you should be able to have that belief,” she said. “You’re not pushing that on someone else, it’s your own belief, you’re living it, I’ve never seen it the way it is now, I do think it is really scary actually, I think that they don’t want you to have the right to be a Christian.”

https://www.freespeech.org/text/kevin-mccarthys-wife-says-she-losing-her-right-be-christian

[Mass]

1. The House GOP is definitively the Christian party.

Today is the day Cantor quits, so it is even literaly true.

BTW, I always hated McCarthy, who is an idiot. Seems his wife fits there too,

[joeybee12]

2. Who is Kevin McCarthy?

Doesn't look like a link I want to click on.

[Mass]

4. New House majority leader.

Cantor's replacement.

[joeybee12]

6. Aha! Thanks...

I recall something about him being elected, couldn't recall his name...he's from California, I believe, proof there are nuts everywhere.

[catrose]

3. her RIGHT means that

she's free to be a Christian whether anyone else sympathizes or not. Freedom of religion is specified because there are guaranteed to be people who will not be sympathetic to your choice.

If she's living her life as a Christian, there's no need for it to get in somebody's face that I ever heard. If she's trying to make others practice her Christianity, that's different.

[iemitsu]

5. What an absurd notion? As if the vast majority of Americans aren't Christian.

If this Christian woman is feeling so much pressure to stop publicizing or promoting her religion she must be presenting it in some unfavorable light. If other Christians are stifling her, they must believe she has lost her direction and that her positions reflect badly on their church.
Or does the fact that everyone does not accept her version of faith mean she is being denied comfort in her commitments?
What a nut case.

[eissa]

7. I fucking hate these pampered Westerners whining about

being "persecuted Christians." Go to Iraq and Syria, you stupid POS, where Christians are actually being persecuted. They are given the "choice" of converting, paying a hefty tax, or being killed. The first isn't even really an option, as most are just killed anyway. That's persecution, not being told "Happy Holidays" by the teenage clerk at Wal-Mart. Fucking idiot. GAH, this pisses me off!

[doxydad]

12. BEST REPLY EVER!

Smartest kid in the goddamned class! You get an A+, and I stand with you!

[eissa]

15. It's just such a sore spot with me right now

As we are trying (in vain) to bring international awareness to the plight of the indigenous Assyrian Christian minorities in Iraq and Syria, who are fleeing their ancestral homeland with their lives because of actual persecution! This idiot doesn't know how good she's got it.

[Demsrule86]

8. Losing the right to dictate to others?

These faux christians believe they have the right to dictate to others. To them if they can't dictate then they are 'losing rights'.

[rurallib]

9. Whatever would these people do if they ever had to deal with real

hardship, pain and discrimination?
They are the best advertisement to run as far from xtians as possible. Well, their breed of xtians.

[betterdemsonly]

10. Her husband is likely to lose the next election

because he lost his gerrymandered district. His district will be majority Catholic not evangelical. The claim their Christianity is being attacked is often made when evangelicals lose their numerical percentage. They don't recognize other groups as Christian.

[Orsino]

11. Another distraction...

...from the badly-needed work that this new majority leader won't do.

[gratuitous]

13. How does anyone know Mrs. McCarthy is a Christian?

If, as she says, he's not "pushing" her faith "on someone else," and she's simply "living it," I'm not sure how the casual observer would surmise that she is a Christian, or how that observer would not want her "to have the right to be a Christian." What does that mean, anyway, "the right to be a Christian"? Are people blocking the doors of her church? Stopping the sale of Bibles? Keeping her from feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and housing the homeless? Is Mrs. McCarthy being prevented from visiting the sick and imprisoned?

Okay, I think I know the answers to those last two questions.

[MineralMan]

14. It's that Bible she keeps banging on all the time.

That's always a tell.

[Zorra]

16. That's known as a persecution complex. Most common nowadays among

RW religious fanatics who hate LGBT persons.

[Lex]

17. Wow, if only Christians could be elected to office, or be CEOs, or multi-millionaires.

I look forward to the day when Christians have some power or money in our country.

[MindPilot]

18. To "white privilege", add "christian privilege".

No one ever questions your ethics, no states have clauses in their constitutions deeming you unworthy of holding public office or serving on a jury, no political candidate ever suggests you are not a citizen, your holy book is in every nightstand in every hotel, you are automatically assumed to be honest and trustworthy, you are never blamed for floods, earthquakes or hurricanes, and you have entire communications networks just for your beliefs.

Need I go on?

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Who is this 'they' she blubbering about? Unsubstantiated horse shit as usual

Not pushing that belief on someone else?


Sure lady, just keep telling yourself that.


LMAO!