Religious Right Joins The NRA In Gun Control Battle
Source: Salon.com
Religious-right extremists who have spent most of their energy in recent years vilifying LGBT people or fighting the nations culture wars on other fronts have found a new demon to slay: gun control.
It might seem odd that those who profess allegiance to the teachings of Jesus Christ would be so vociferous about making sure that Americans have continued, unfettered access to assault rifles. But in the wake of the massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut, which ignited the most heated debate about gun control in this country in a decade, some of the religious rights most rabid voices are joining the fight.
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Earlier this week, the White House released the presidents aggressive plan to address gun control. According to The New York Times, the multifaceted effort includes 23 proposed executive orders, some of which address controlling access to guns, and a full-court press on Congress to pass comprehensive gun reform legislation.
Leave it to Fischer, though, who has claimed that Adolf Hilters Nazi Party relied on gay men because of their innate brutality, to turn the debate straight on its face. Not only has he banned the use of the words assault rifles on his Focal Point radio show in favor of sporting rifles and threatened to fine any member of his staff who uses the wrong term he has defined the debate on gun control as a thinly veiled plot to target Christians.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/23/religious_right_joins_the_nra_in_gun_control_battle/
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)Actually, not really.
It was only a matter of time.
You know ALL these knuckle draggers all go to the same churches.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)You should see Jon Stewart's monologue from last night with regards to God, Guns and the Inauguration.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)and Moses.
panzerfaust
(2,818 posts)... I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."
Mat 10:34-37
Christian family values, from the mouth of God Hisownself.
Grins
(7,212 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)....you get stoned to death. Or shot with dad's trusty bushmaster. Deuteronomy 22: 13-21
atreides1
(16,072 posts)Fischer has banned words and will fine anyone on his staff who says the wrong thing? I guess he sees Hitler every morning when he looks into a mirror!!!
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)Jesus was an NRA member, don't cha know?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,150 posts)...was armed with an M60 MG he would have mowed down those fucking Romans who crucified him.
Fuck yeah, Jesus. Woo hoo.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(48,994 posts)reverend_tim
(105 posts)It is poop your pants funny !!!!!!!!!!!!!
valerief
(53,235 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Nothing wrong with two wackos living happily in la-la land.
formercia
(18,479 posts)They don't call it an Assault Rifle for nothing.
Sporting Rifle, my ass...
mzmolly
(50,985 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)what if there were hundreds of black men in hoodies demanding no restrictions on assault rifles?
what if there were hundreds of men in turbans carrying Korans demanding no restrictions on assault rifles?
They would be banned the next day.
NICO9000
(970 posts)Great points! Love yr FZ-inspired moniker too!
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Progressive dog
(6,900 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)extremist hate group?
ladjf
(17,320 posts)Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)excerpt:
And then Angry Jesus came down from the cerulean Heavens and grew to a great and awful height before the cowering Christians and He said, in an enormous, terrible voice as large as the vaulted universe, "Thou hast corrupted My teachings; thou art makers of war and destroyers of peace; thou hast twisted My words and the words of Our Lord, My father, and thou shalt be punished..." And lo they trembled before his wrath, and he turned them gay and made them move to the coasts, where they discovered the pleasures of decent coffee and a night without television, and yea they were happy again, and put down their weapons, and truly began to do His work.
Just kidding.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)"a marriage made in heaven".
When will they start making artistic religious riffle stocks... (or the Monty Python Holy Hand grenade.) ?? Jerkwads.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)(Operation Iraqi Liberation).
bowens43
(16,064 posts)the christian god is one violent dude.....
Blue4Texas
(437 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)STUPIDITY.
Mr.Bill
(24,282 posts)Who Would Jesus Shoot?
DinahMoeHum
(21,783 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)I don't see much armed self-defense philosophy there
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)in killing those already born. Now this does not add up, they are going to fight to keep weapons of war on our streets, killing innocent children and adults in schools, theaters, malls, and churches. What warped minds, this is crazy, but the same bunch supports lots of the churches so the ministers of those churches will be failing in their call if they do not tell their congregations guns brings violence and this is not WWJD. Don't preach about abortions unless they are willing to also preach against violence and guns is behind this.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)and yes, they are ideologically aligned to fascism.