Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Arizona Doubles Down on Craziness with Republican Pamela Gorman.

TPJ: Is she running for Congress or membership in the John Dillinger gang?!! I'm all for the second amendment but Tommy guns??? I get that she's for guns; incidentally I figured she probably had a 100% rating from the NRA given the ad showed her shooting nearly every gun known to man since 1600. So, she's for guns, lower taxes (for the rich no doubt) and Christianity. Unfortunately, however, for a person with a 13th century mindset like her, the country and world is much more complex with myriad issues involving gray areas and black and white thinking just isn't going to fly in today's world. Again, I'm not against having guns unless you want Tommy guns, tanks or a nuke. That said, this whole celebration of gun culture, gun violence and using gun ownership as political intimidation is getting dangerous, and scarily out of hand.

And I'm really getting annoyed with this idea that Christianity is a litness test for holding office in this country. Or any religious belief or none for that matter. Religion should be one of the LAST things we base choosing our candidates upon. I'm not saying this lady is has a 13th century mindset because she's Christian--no, I'm saying that because she seems to view the world in a simplistic manner. The Christian thing is just bad politics.

It's such a tribal, sectarian division that we don't need in politics. There's a reason why we have a separation of church and state--it's protect BOTH. There's also a reason why if a religious group advocates politics from the pulpit that they get their tax exempt status yanked. I'm not anti-Christian or religion. I just am tried of seeing it merge too much with government. I hope Arizona rejects this lady but then again Arizona is going completely off a cliff right now politically.

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2 comments:

TRUTH 101 said...

As an upstanding Christian myself HBW, I find it an affront to God, bordering on blasphemy that anyone invoke Him as a reason to vote for him or herself.

Handsome B. Wonderful said...

@Truth...I can see how you'd feel that way. I would too if I were Christian. Or if someone liker her were using Buddhism (my faith) to get votes. Anyone who needs to flaunt their religious belief so much tells me that she has a shallow view of that religion.p