Visible Vote 08 » Religious Bigots Are A Tired People

By: James Withers

More on: Iowa, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire

It shouldn’t shock to find out that I’m no fan of Mitt Romney. I’m willing to bet 20 bucks the Romney campaign isn’t staying up late to see how it can win my endorsement. In fact, let’s be honest: the only candidate that might want my approval is Mike Gravel and that is why he’s never going to get near the White House (that plus his perpetual crankiness).

I digress. With my disdain for the idea of a Romney White House in the open let me say this: anyone who is against Romney because he’s a Mormon needs to be dope slapped twice a day.

Apparently some yahoos are engaged in making phone calls, in Iowa and New Hampshire, against Romney and part of their spiel is to mock the man’s faith. I’m all too aware the race to the White House isn’t like a campaign for 3rd grade milk monitor (I lost my milk monitor election due to voting irregularities), but if bigotry is all you got about a candidate at least come out and be upfront about it. The clowns behind this effort are staying in the shadows for now. Makes sense really. Most bigots are cowards anyway.

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Posted: Nov. 19. 2007 at 7:58 AM EST

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Ginelle says:

10:21 on 01/27

If you are going to have a true democracy that meets the needs of all of its' citizens with absolute equality, then you need to separate the church from the state. Religion needs to be a personal belief that is kept in its place away from politics. The Bible itself is very explicit when it says to "pay unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and pay unto God that which is God's". It is time the religious right folks like Pat Robertson and Fred Phelps minded their own pews and quit forcing their small and narrow minded perceptions of spirituality and Godliness onto the political leaders and the rest of the populace. Every single person has rights, and that includes the right to believe in God as they see fit, not the way someone else forces them to do so.
H. (Bart) Vincelette says:

11:09 on 01/07

I agree that every gay person should vote. One of the most common excuses I've heard through the years is that of not wanting to do jury duty.To read the latest anti-everything rational and compassionate diatribes on the major religious right websites , you'd think that Democrats are more anti-American than Osama.Concerned Women for America have an article about presumed letters and emails from a Democratic Senator involved in the obstruction of judicial nominees. It includesten examples . It is only in fine print at the very end of said article that it admits the piece is a fiction.
Chris says:

12:59 on 12/12

I really couldn't care less if the man worships a rabbit's foot - I don't want to hear about a candidate's personal religious views - I am not electing a religious leader. As far as I am concerned, the President is simply the CEO of the largest company in the U.S. - I want him to be able to separate out fact from fiction. Since the vast majority of religious dogma is nothinf more that mythology - I have precious little respect for someone who props up mythology as fact and then attempts to force down the rest of the American public's throat.
DanV says:

9:06 on 12/03

I'm old enough to remember that Kennedy's Catholicism was quite a big issue in 1960. That year, there wasn't a Republican nun or priest anywhere in sight just as there won't be a Democratic Mormon in sight either.

American religion IS politics. We've made a religion out of politics. The intolerance that comes with the territory (religion) is endemic. The Southern Baptist Convention is still the most political (as well as racist) sect in America. To quote from the world's most moralizing moron, Pat Robertson: "The two seem to go together"
Paul Ginandes says:

7:07 on 11/20

I am not prejudiced about Romney's religion, but I am concerned about electing a president who believes in such wild fantasies as those espoused by the Mormon religion. Reason and intelligence would seem to require disbelief in unsupported myths and invisible beings. I want my president to be intelligent and resonable. I have the same reservations about virtually all religions however. Does that make me a bigot?
ronnie says:

3:29 on 11/20

HAHAHA! Oh yes Steve! Let's all go rush out to the polls so we can participate in RIGGED elections courtesy of the Yale(skull and bones)mob! Can anyone here say "NAIVE"!!! LOL!
SteveMD2 says:

2:04 on 11/20

Isn't it a shame when the candidates resort to what is nothing but religious hatred to try and become president, just as the Catastrophic Bush presidency came to be and to continue, though you might add stealing both elections also helped.

Every gay person who doesn't vote, every gay equality str8 supporter deserves 100 lashes with a very long wet noodle.

Please vote. Just think - we (my wife) and I were in Key West shortly after the election of 2000. As I said to someone, if every gay person in Key West had voted, I'd bet a 5 figure sum of money that Bush would have lost the election.

I've also heard that gay folks have a "90+% we voted" record. Sorry, not good enough. Everyone who is eligible needs to vote