Gingrich: Left Attempting To ‘Drive Out Of Existence’ Traditional Religion

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/newt-gingrich-left-attempting-to-drive-out-of-existence-traditional-religion.php

Much of the first half of Saturday’s Mitt Romney-less social conservative debate was focused on the problems Christians face in modern society.

They can’t preach politics from the pulpit, Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain said. They can’t keep potential adoptees out of same sex families, all agreed. But it’s Newt Gingrich who most starkly stated the uphill climb America’s Christians are facing these days.

During a discussion about using the federal government to force states to allow religious groups to discriminate against same sex couples when placing children for adoption, Gingrich said liberals are out to destroy faith itself.

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I think that we need to be very aggressive and very direct. The degree to which the left is prepared to impose intolerance and to drive out of existence traditional religion is a mortal threat to our civilization and deserves to be taken head on and described as what it is which the use of government to repress the American people against their own values.


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[Angry Dragon]

1. The religion of Fellatio

because they sure do like to cram their religion down everyones' throat

[TlalocW]

2. Surprised Gingrich beat them to the punch

On saying something like this. He can be pretty savvy when he wants to be. The people they're having the debate in front of tonight are professional Christian victims, who need fainting couches when someone has the audacity to say, "Happy Holidays," to them instead of, "Merry Christmas." The candidate who comes up with the worst case scenario in front of them wins, and Newt pretty much nailed it.

TlalocW

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Why did Romney miss it - because it focused on Christian issues and

he didn't want to attract attention to his Mormonism? Anyone know why?

[JoePhilly]

28. The Fundies think Mormons are FALSE Christians.

Mitt knows that if he went, that particular tension would flare up.

He and the other GOP leaders don't want that. They want the fundies to shut up and vote for Mitt.

So Mitt needed to go underground during this Jesusapalousa.

Newt going to have to claim that he asked God to forgive his "indiscretions" and that god high fived him and said "No problem".

The others will then spend their time trying to out bible each other.

[Ikonoklast]

4. Coming from the guy who changes religions like some men change wives.

Oops.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. The religion of women are property, the religion of do what we say or else...

You can keep it.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Anybody have that pie chart, where the Christian majority part is yelpng about being oppressed?

That's what comes to mind when I read this.... :puke:

[eShirl]

7. Ah yes, the old reliable standy-by when one needs to get people riled up.

[madrchsod]

8. oh jesus h christ, shut the fuck up newt

just making shit up out of the clear blue sky is really pretty stupid.

[UTUSN]

9. K&R #3 for, ain't it pharasees that kill the spirituality out of their religion?!1 n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Actually, it's the fundigelicals who are trying to drive out of existence

traditional religion.

[Leopolds Ghost]

11. It's true that some leftists have given a bad name to the Communism of the Early Church.

Communism was, after all, a primarily Christian concept among the True Church denominations before Marx took it over.

(English Baptists, Pilgrims of Massachusetts, Mennonites, Anabaptists, Quakers, Congregationalists, the Peasant Revolts)

and now we get to see the Right Wing make the concept of the free market look bad by inventing the Corporation, thereby 'Driving Out Of Existence' traditional economics.

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. for someone who truly lives his faith like Newt Gingrich these must be trying times

I can understand his passion to fight.

[edhopper]

13. You forgot

:sarcasm:

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. if feel kind of silly inserting that particular icon

but then again, I don't know how many times people have taken me seriously when I thought my point was pretty obvious

[edhopper]

17. I learned that lesson.

I always include it.

[eShirl]

16. :spittake:

:spray:

[krabigirl]

14. lol if anyone is driving people away from christianity in America, it is right-wing Christians. nt

[krispos42]

18. Traditionally, religion has been a critical and powerful component of government

So... yeah, that whole "separation of church and state" thing is an attempt to drive out "traditional" religion

[AsahinaKimi]

19. The RIGHT doesn't care about TRADITIONAL religion

IF they did, they would allow people to practice all the Religions of the world, and not JUST THEIR BRAND of Christianity. They would not be fighting against Atheists either. They would leave us all in Peace.

[haikugal]

20. I hate to break it to him but he and those like him don't need any help.

They're doing a great job all by themselves.

[Hydra]

21. Last time I checked, the worshippers of Mammon were doing just fine n/t

[wakemewhenitsover]

22. So let me get this straight...

Freedom of religion = intolerance of Christianity?

Newt is a dick. The fact that he cloaks his right-wing talking points in faux-professorial tones is especially disturbing. What a schtick, this business of muttering conservative claptrap as if it were accepted fact.

K&R to drag him out into the sunlight, so everyone sees his hypocritical hokum for what it is.

:kick:

[The Genealogist]

23. Red meat for the social conservatives

How these people sleep at night, considering all this exploitation of people's beliefs, is beyond me. Everyone of those candidates worships at the altar of Mammon. No matter what they say, that is their true god.

[MrSlayer]

24. I would have no problem with throwing organized religion away completely.

That's right Newt, you fucking asshole, I do want traditional religion gone from society. All it does is breed hatred and foster ignorance.

[applegrove]

25. What with religion show up at OWS the GOP has to fight back and keep

their followers in a paranoid stance against the left and Newt is doing a good job of showing his talent in this regard.

[Dover]

26. Gotta hammer in those wedges lest people actually come together. Scary thought! n/t

[fascisthunter]

27. another right wing extremist pretending to be a victim

boo hoo hoo you weird fanatic.

[Major Nikon]

29. The bigots of organized religion need to be driven out

Tolerance does not require one to tolerate bigots.

[Festivito]

30. He's fishing on how to divert thoughts to children with gays and from a tradition of staying married

Using adopted children gives the reader an image -- very powerful.

I think his attempt is vain and he will falter, again.

[tanyev]

31. You mean the traditional religion that condemns adultery, Newt?

That traditional religion? Indeed, why bother to 'drive it out of existence' when you can just ignore the teachings that you don't agree with?