This state legislator thinks Earth Day is a pagan holiday.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

This one is nuttier than squirrel shit.

The Minnesota lawmaker who caught heat for comparing food stamp recipients to animals is creating quite the stir on Twitter by calling Earth Day a "Pagan holiday."

"It absolutely infuriates me, celebration of a Pagan holiday, worship of Nature and not God's nature," Alexandria Representative Franson tweeted on Earth Day.

Later in the day, Franson tweeted more and added, "Why are some bent over shape about my comment?" That was followed by, "Big deal. So I don't like Earth Day."

In a video posted on YouTube in March, Franson compared animals to food stamp recipients, but later said she was trying to illustrate how there is a need for welfare reform to get people out of poverty.

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/973586/396/State-Rep-calls-Earth-Day-a-Pagan-holiday

[DirkGently]

1. I'm fine with "Pagan holiday." Pagans came up with all the good stuff in the Christian ones anyway.

[MADem]

2. That idiot needs to get in touch with the Ghost of Richard Nixon

Or maybe the ghost of Gaylord Nelson:

http://nelsonearthday.net/

[AnnieBW]

3. Beltane is May 1

I guess that he's a little over a week off.

[Island Blue]

4. Pssssst. So is Christmas. And Easter.

[DefenseLawyer]

5. I hope no one tries to sell girl scout cookies on Earth Day

That would open up some kind of radical pagan lesbian vortex



Rep. Bob Morris (R-Nutterville)


Rep. Mary Franson (R-Loon City)

[abelenkpe]

6. How do people so clueless get elected?

[freshwest]

7. Not to offend you, but they're elected by people who get their news from CBN.

That's why we're 'Screwn In The USA.'

IMHO.

[CurtEastPoint]

8. Somebody bombed her Wikipedia page. GOOD ONE!

On April 19, 2012 she declared Earth Day a Pagan Holiday, and was appalled that humans would care for the environment. She would rather pray for protection of the earth rather then try and take care of it. Michelle Bachman Lite as she is called, Franson is proof that only idiots and rednecks live in the Alexandria, Minnesota area.

[provis99]

9. she's bigoted against Pagans, I guess.

Imagine if a pagan lawmaker published a tweet shitting all over Ash Wednesday; the outcry from these Christian hypocrites would be enormous.

[nobodyspecial]

12. What pagan lawmaker?

Not an open one. Aren't they like devil worshipers and baby killers?

[provis99]

15. that's why I used the word "imagine."

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Someone should tell this nitwit that Earth Day was started

in large part in response to two major pollution disasters that had occurred the year before (1969): the huge oil spill at Santa Barbara, California, and the literal burning of a long stretch of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio.

[Javaman]

11. Can't cure stupid. nt

[Brother Buzz]

13. Idiots like this are part of the reason Pete McCloskey left the republican party

[Lizzie Poppet]

14. Wow, what a coincidence!

Wow, what a coincidence! Franson thinks Earth Day is a "pagan holiday." I think Franson is a nincompoop.

[Odin2005]

16. Alexandria is at the western end of Minnesota's interior RW nutso zone.

Lots of rich fucks with lake homes in that area.

[white_wolf]

17. So what if it is?

We openly celebrate Christian Holidays, why not Pagan ones? Besides, all of the Pagans I've met are a lot nicer than the Christians...