Posted on 10/15/2007 8:12:03 PM PDT by Reaganesque
Maybe you missed this but the Desert News in Salt Lake City didn't. Harry Reid had some harsh words for Evangelicals calling millions of them "anti-Christian". Read portions of the article below: (the key qote is bolded)
Some past prominent LDS Church leaders wrongly pressed conservatism on church members, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday during a press conference at Brigham Young University.
The Nevada senator attacked President Bush and evangelical Christians while saying members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints need to worry less about abortion and gay marriage and more about health care, global warming, education and jobs.
"Members of the church are obedient," Reid said, "they are followers in the truest sense of the word, and I think they've taken members of the church down a path that is the wrong path. Look at Joseph Smith. Here's a man who was progressive, to say the least. He broke from the pack. He did things differently than they'd been done. He was against slavery. He wanted to start a national bank.
"I think people in the church have to understand there are issues more important than abortion and gay marriage."
Afterward, he told reporters that congressional Republicans have poorly represented mainstream Republicans in recent years.
"They have focused on just a few issues, flag-burning, gay marriage, abortion," Reid said. "The country has gone beyond that to other issues. We have a country that needs to do something about health care. Global warming is here. We have a president who doesn't know how to pronounce the words."
Reid also told reporters the Republican Party has been driven by evangelical Christians for 20 years. "They are the most anti-Christian people I can imagine, the people from the Christian far right."
The whole article is here.
Labels are dangerous. I've never been a big fan of them. Generalities are equally a problem. News flash to liberals: don't paint the "religious right" with one broad stroke. Just because they believe fervently in the life and marriage issues doesn't mean they are crazy. Conversely, the "far left' shouldn't be pigeonholed as well. Just because they may be anti-war doesn't mean they don't love America. Let's sing Kumbaya. Click here.
Ping!
He does paint with a broad brush, doesn’t he? The jerk!
So the Rush thing didn’t work out, huh Harry?
“They are the most anti-Christian people I can imagine, the people from the Christian far right.” - Dingy Harry - The self appointed expert on Christianity
Harry,who?
I would love to hear how those parishioners who listened to him, felt about those things he told them they should move on from. Do THEY think they should follow this wolf, like good little sheep?
Reed is a disgrace to America, a disgrace to Mormons, a disgrace to civilized human beings everywhere!
So now it’s the role of the Senate to both intimidate opposition media and judge the “Christianity” of opposition religious sects? Even as an atheist I find that offensive. McCarthy’s got nothing on Harry Reid.
Reid must be feeling like ol’ Joe Btfsplk from the Lil’ Abner comic strip. Gotta love it when an arrogant fool keeps stepping on his own peter.
Ok, let’s see. Stupid relativism by Harry Reid:
Anti-slave & Pro National Bank = Pro Gay & Pro Abortion
What the blank is he talking about. That man is moron.
ROTFLMAO! I just finished listening to an audiobook of “If Democrats Had Any Brains They’d Be Republicans” and I have to tell you...
Ann Coulter is RIGHT ON THE MONEY with these people...her discussion of the Left’s view of “The Religious Right” would be fantasically funny if her descriptions of those views were not so spot-on.
So hypocritical. Libs often like to attack evangelicals and conservative Catholics for getting involved with politics (e.g. fighting abortion), but they're perfectly happy with mainstream churches who work to promote socialism.
This is Reid’s jihad on the Evangelicals...
IIRC the CoJCoLDS would excommunicate him if he promoted abortion.
He does not.
I find it odd that he thinks his church leadership only gets politically involved in issues{homosexuality & abortion } that assault the core issue of their faith - family.
He is no Mormon and he is certainly no Christian.
I assume you are talking about his behavior and not his beliefs? I do believe he was criticizing antiChristian behavior.
True. One gets the impression he thinks “good” government is more important than protecting families.
These words reek of desperation. This fool has lost his mind.
Sounds a little bigoted!
I cannot comment on his personal beliefs. That is something only he can account for. I am concerned only about what he has said and done. And what he has said and done totally contradicts what he says his beliefs are. If you grant, for the sake of argument, that the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are in fact apostles and prophets, when Mr. Reid says that they have misled the membership, he is literally declaring himself to be smarter than God himself. That is not the act of a faithful Mormon nor that of a true Christian.
The Nevada senator attacked President Bush and evangelical Christians while saying members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints need to worry less about abortion
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yeah a few million dead babies here and there...who will notice
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