Jesus Would’ve Been a Democrat, Dean Says

azconservative ^ | 16 June 2007 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says “evangelical Christians ought to vote Democratic because Jesus would have.”

While admitting that Jesus might have had problems with Democrats’ pro-choice stand on abortion, “I don’t think he would’ve been a one-issue voter,” Dean speculated. “His demographic profile—poor, unemployed, unmarried—looks like a Democrat.”

"I haven't read a single word about Jesus criticizing gay marriage in the Bible," Dean said in an address at a Democratic fundraiser at a Reno, Nevada casino. “In fact, Jesus himself may have been gay. He spent most of his time hanging out with men. The women in his life were all ‘just friends.’ It’s a classic gay lifestyle.”

"Then there are the fiscal issues,” Dean went on. “Jesus said of money ‘render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.’ This pretty clearly said that all the money belonged to the government. This is a core value of the Democratic Party today.”

“Take foreign policy,” Dean continued. “Didn’t Jesus say ‘turn the other cheek?’ We Democrats have been trying to get George Bush to turn the other cheek for the last four years. Isn’t the Republican insistence on meeting violence with violence profoundly unchristian?”

Dean closed by suggesting that there might be some “wiggle room” on the abortion issue. “In Jesus’ time we didn’t have the technology we have today,” Dean said. “If Jesus had known that stem cells could help provide relief for sufferers of Parkinson’s disease or that ultrasounds could detect birth defects, maybe he’d have seen the need for a more open mind on this issue.”

In related news, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed that embryonic stem cell research is a "gift from God. That is why taxpayers must fund it. To do less would be the height of ingratitude.”

[jtroywall]

that is disturbing how men can twist the words of the bible like that. he clearly has not done the research himself