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.
No,no Harry. That is your fellow senator Robert Byrd.
Interesting. Gay marriage and abortion are two specific issues that the entire leadership of the LDS church have publicly spoken out about in recent years. Apparently, Harry thinks they are wrong, too. Why does he even bother coming to church?
The candidates for the antichrist abound. Harry is on my list.
Ever heard of the “Roe Effect?” Harry needs to keep in mind that most mothers who have abortions are liberals. One of these days the demographics are going to work against him.
That’s because his dog Billy couldn’t talk and teach him
He fits neither definition.
Isn’t it fascinating? Gay marriage and abortion are moral issues and therefore church leaders have spoken out about them. Whereas global warming and unemployment, no matter how the Left spins it, are political issues and therefore not within the realm of what church leaders would ever talk about. Mr. Reid’s actual religion is Liberalism.
The long term trend for Harry Reid’s Party of Treason is very poor; however, small family sizes means moms can also be turned against, for example, the liberation of Iraq, and all it takes is the Big Lie, pounded like a big drumhead, and disseminated through partisan media shills.
There are very fine, patriotic people who think the war was a big mistake, but those who wants us to fail over there don't love America.
And I think a large part of the Democratic leadership falls in that category.
I love seeing the two political parties divided down the religious line. Politics is all about religion and liberals continue to be Godless.
Looks like Rush made a fool out of dingy harry, so he has to take his frustration out on another group who disagrees with his liberal garbage.
Matthew 5:11 - 12
Reid needs to read his Book of Mormon. Relativism and Humanism are specifically taught by a man named Korihor who is as anti-Christ. His lies get smacked down by a Prophet in Alma 30.
Relativism and Humanism (the bedrocks of liberalism) are anti-Christ at their foundation.
His characterizations of Joseph Smith being a liberal are idiotic. Joseph Smith formed the first National party that advocated abolition of the slaves. This is closer to the Republican party than the Democrats who fought against Civil rights. I guess if you believe in revisionist liberal history it makes sense.
This is a Joseph Smith quote after he met with Pres. Martin Van Buren and then met with Senators in Washington.
“There is such an itching disposition to display their oratory on the most trivial occasions, and so much etiquette, bowing and scraping, twisting and turning, to make a display of their witticism, that it seems to us rather a display of folly and show, more than substance and gravity, such as becomes a great Nation like ours.”
The more things change the more they stay the same.
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