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The article itself is harmless. It comments on a new Pew report (Click here for report.) about the religious affiliations of the new Congress. However, if you go to the front page of the LA Times website, the link to the article is titled: "Catholics, Jews, Mormons overrepresented in Congress, study finds."

Here's a picture of it:

Warms your heart, doesn't it? A wave of violent attacks on California's religious community for exercising their right to vote and the LA Times is fanning the flames by implying that there are too many members of Congress who are members of the religions that voted to ban gay marriage. I would say it is unbelievable but, sadly, these days it just isn't.

1 posted on 12/21/2008 6:50:45 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

I think there are too many libs in media.


2 posted on 12/21/2008 6:51:54 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: Reaganesque

Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus will be underrepresented in its membership

Well, that’s something to be thankful for.


3 posted on 12/21/2008 6:52:12 PM PST by nobama08
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To: Reaganesque

Not enough Devil worshippers, Mooselimbs and child molestors, eh?

And I’ll bet the LATimes wonders why their going bankrupt...


4 posted on 12/21/2008 6:53:17 PM PST by GOPGuide
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To: Reaganesque

How very tolerant of them.


5 posted on 12/21/2008 6:53:57 PM PST by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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Well, I suppose Congress could pass a bill (or Obama could sign an E.O.) to require quotas on themselves.

The MSM is an ass.

6 posted on 12/21/2008 6:55:03 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Reaganesque

Muslims are overrepresented in the incoming Presidency. Only a few percent of the population, they are 100% of that office.


8 posted on 12/21/2008 6:56:19 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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Maybe they wish there were more Protestants. That would be more like the old days.


9 posted on 12/21/2008 6:57:36 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: Reaganesque

So I guess what they are asking: are there too many Jews, Cathlics and Mormons in the USA? Or are they asking: What’s with all the religious people? hmmm...maybe because it represents America!


13 posted on 12/21/2008 7:00:08 PM PST by lnzog (I'm from Illinois and I apologize.)
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Are under represented based on what?


14 posted on 12/21/2008 7:00:36 PM PST by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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Don’t let it bother you. If anyone cared what the LA times thought, they wouldn’t be on the verge of collape :) God deals with EVERYONE and EVERYTHING in His own time. I am looking forward to certain days of reckoning for sure.


17 posted on 12/21/2008 7:06:16 PM PST by wombtotomb (since its "above his paygrade", why can't we err on the side of caution about when life begins?)
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What do they care? They want to separate religion from government anyway.


18 posted on 12/21/2008 7:06:20 PM PST by Netizen
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May I opine as well that there are too many liberals and atheists in the LA Times.


19 posted on 12/21/2008 7:07:12 PM PST by citizencon
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Aztec priests are under represented too, but after they cut out enough hearts of the opposition party the numbers will kind of even out.


20 posted on 12/21/2008 7:09:26 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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Why not show them how many of the objectionable religious nuts there are? All believers just cancel your subscriptions.
21 posted on 12/21/2008 7:11:45 PM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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I caught the end of the Falcons/ Vikings game today. The network(Fox) showed a cutaway to the owner’s box. I’m not sure who the home team was.(Vikings).Anyway when they showed the owner’s box the was a menorah in plain sight. The camera shifted immediately off the menorah and one second later they cut away to the game. I couldn’t believe it. What’s the big deal?


22 posted on 12/21/2008 7:12:24 PM PST by GQuagmire ( A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.)
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Seriously, who in their right mind READS the LA Times?

Middle of the roaders and everyone to the right hates the LA Times deceitfulness and propagandist distortions. And even the leftists and West Hollywood types who like the reporting can’t really trust a publication that is so dishonest.

So who remains to read this crap sandwich? Answer: no one.

Circulation: zilch. Crediblity: zilch. Advertising value: zilch.


24 posted on 12/21/2008 7:14:18 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: Reaganesque
From Pew:

25 posted on 12/21/2008 7:15:47 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: Coleus; wagglebee; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; little jeremiah; Norman Bates

WTF?????!!!!

I’m sure that athiests and satanists are underrepresented, but that doesn’t mean that electing them to office would be a good thing.

Dayem, the liberal media can be weird when it shows its true nature.


26 posted on 12/21/2008 7:17:37 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (If greed is a virtue, than corporate socialism is conservative)
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"When the 111th Congress convenes on Jan. 6, Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus will be underrepresented in its membership."

Well they are certainly not underrepresented by the L.A. Times.

I do not even know any Buddhists, Muslims, or Hindus. I also definitely do not know anybody from the L.A. Times.

27 posted on 12/21/2008 7:18:12 PM PST by Radix (There are 2 kinds of people in this world. Those with loaded guns & those who dig. You dig.)
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To the LAT — so sad. But so glad that we are who we are.


28 posted on 12/21/2008 7:22:28 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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