Posted on 09/18/2010 11:49:47 AM PDT by Michel12
Fresh off her victory in Delaware, GOP U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is riding a wave of campaign cash but also internet infamy, thanks in part to her controversial statements -- most notably on masturbation -- in the late 1990s on Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect." Christine O'Donnell says one of her first dates occurred on a satanic altar.
On Friday, Maher released on his new HBO show, "Real Time," an unaired clip of O'Donnell admitting to a brief dalliance with witchcraft.
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Why don't you see what Coon's has been guilty of?
Ok how many Dim votes will this get her in DE?
She’s had a twenty year career in various fields.
A total ditz?
Gee, her speech at the Value Voters Summit rocked. I just think a “total ditz” could have pulled that one off.
And what office are you running for again?
Unfortunately, a number of people on this site want to apply the same dumbed-down standard to Republican candidates.
She is better qualifed than Coons or Castle!
All these things show is that she IS A REAL PERSON!
Vetted? You mean like Obama was vetted?
C’mon people—she’s the candidate and she’s got more on the ball than Castle, Carper and Biden combined.
I know I live here in DE, and she is a breath of fresh air.
She will vote against Cap and Trade, something that if passed will tank the economy and affect ALL of you naysayers.
Get a grip.
No one thought she could be Castle but she did.
Coons is an admitted Communist, but you are attacking her!
Who said I don't?
Political consultants talk about the "optics" of certain situation, as well as the "legs" of those same situations. IOW, how will it look to the general electorate, and how long will it last. This looks crazy, and if Maher isn't lying when he says the rest of the tapes are worse, then it has legs.
Is Coon going to lead the morning news shows? Nope. Why don't you see that? This isn't about Christine O'Donnell, it's not about Coons and it's really not about a DE Senate race. This is about the media painting one remarkably odd candidate as the face of the Tea Party and the Republican party. It's not complicated.
Americans love a comeback story.
The choice is between a Constitutionalist or a Communist.
Clearly, many on Freerepublic are prefer the Communist.
Americans love a comeback story.
The choice is between a Constitutionalist or a Communist.
Clearly, many on Freerepublic prefer the Communist.
YOU HAVE BEEN OUTED! Only collectivists call their fellow Americans "The masses" . Buzz off.
And you're a well known idiot.
Evidently you're in the minority.For the Class of '98, I'd think you'd have more fight in you for the greater good.
Guess I was mistaken.
Touched a nerve. Huh?
She was the only one with the nerve to take him on.
This is why we don't have citizens stepping up and running, the threat of their entire lives being put under the microscope.
Castle was a parasite who lived off the taxpayer for 45 years, and you are going to attack her?
Sure they do. What color is the sky on your planet?
William F. Buckley, writing an obitituary for Murray Rothbard in National Review...
"In Murray's case, much of what drove him was a contrarian spirit...while huffing and puffing in the little cloister whose walls he labored so strenuously to contract, leaving him, in the end, not as the father of a swelling movement that 'rous[ed] the masses from their slumber,' as he once stated his ambition...""
You do know who William F. Buckley is, don't you sport?
I'm sorry you have a 8th-grade vocabulary, I really am.
If they have repented of it! See Acts 19:19.
No, I imagine your just touching yourself. Just saying.
Senate Republican joins
call to end military
accommodation of Wicca
by Jeremy Leaming
First Amendment Center
June 29, 1999
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., old-school bigot.The Senate’s oldest member has joined the call, prompted by a socially conservative congressman from Georgia, to bar Wiccan practices on U.S. military bases.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., submitted a statement decrying Wicca, a nature-based faith, as irreligious and saying it should not be accommodated by the military.
“Army soldiers who consider themselves to be members of the Church of Wicca are carrying out their ceremonies at Fort Hood in Texas,” Thurmond wrote. “The Wiccas practice witchcraft. At Fort Hood, they are permitted to build fires on Army property and perform their rituals involving fire, hooded robes, and nine inch daggers. An Army chaplain is even present.”
Thurmond’s letter follows recent congressional attention given to Wiccan worship on military bases. In May, Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., sent letters to base leaders at Fort Hood demanding that they cease permitting soldiers to engage in Wiccan celebrations. Barr’s likened Wiccan practices to “Satanic rituals” and said the military needed to stop allowing Wiccan celebrations to occur on bases.
For years, however, military bases such as Fort Hood and ones in Louisiana, Alaska and Florida have permitted soldiers to form groups to honor their goddesses and gods. Moreover, the U.S. Armed Forces Chaplain Handbook contains a section on Wicca and how it can be accommodated. The military handbook states that “the core ethical statement of Wicca, called the ‘Wiccan Rede’ states ‘as it harm none, do what you will.’ The rede fulfills the same function as the ‘Golden Rule’ for Jews and Christians; all other ethical teachings are considered to be elaborations and applications of the rede.
“Social forces generally do not yet allow Witches to publicly declare their religious faith without fear of reprisals such as loss of job, child-custody challenges, ridicule, etc.,” the handbook states. “Prejudice against Wiccans is the result of public confusion between Witchcraft and Satanism. Wiccans in the military, especially those who may be posted in countries perceived to be particularly intolerant, will often have their dogtags read ‘No Religious Preference.’ Concealment is a traditional Wiccan defense against persecution, so non-denominational dogtags should contravene a member’s request for religious services.”
In his letter to the Senate committee, Thurmond called on the military to reverse its accommodation of Wicca.
“I do not dispute that individuals may believe what they wish, and they can practice their religion in private life,” Thurmond told the committee. “However, limits can and should be placed on the exercise of those views, especially in the military. I do not believe that the Armed Forces should accommodate the practice of witchcraft at military facilities. The same applies to the practices of other groups such as Satanists and cultists. For the sake of the honor and prestige of our military, there should be no obligation to permit such activity. This is an example of going too far to accommodate the practice of one’s views in the name of religion.”
Last week George W. Bush, governor of Texas and 2000 GOP presidential frontrunner, was asked by ABC News about Barr’s concerns on Wicca in the military as well as the posting of the Ten Commandments in public buildings.
Bush said that he did not believe “witchcraft is a religion,” and he hoped “the military would rethink this decision.” Bush was then asked whether he agreed with the recent U.S. House of Representatives’ vote that said states have the constitutional power to place the Ten Commandments in public buildings, including public schools. He said that he had no problem with the religious codes being placed in every public building.
In 1984 a federal judge in Virginia ruled that Wicca was a religion protected by the First Amendment, saying the faith occupied a place in the lives of its members “parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God.”
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