Posted on 09/08/2010 2:58:08 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Presumed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney came out Wednesday against the planned burning of the Quran by a Florida pastor, saying that doing so would endanger American troops.
“Burning the Quran is wrong on every level,” the former Massachusetts governor said in a statement to POLITICO. “It puts troops in danger, and it violates a founding principle of our republic.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41895.html#ixzz0yyeKLaDE
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
-- Albert Einstein
ROFLOL!!
What about his garage?
Yet I must consider the insight of others whose judgment I have come to respect in terms of pure survival. My husband is an alpha guy with a warrior's instinct typical of that type, and his thoughts echo Rumplestiltskin's. I am coming to recognize that what I and Palin and you like to describe as "wrong" is in fact more accurately described as "uncomfortable." Necessary acts of aggression against those who would bully us are unpleasant. If those unpleasant tactics were used against a righteous or benign (b9!) force, they would certainly be "wrong."
But Islam is a malignant force. Islam is a bully, so it will quite necessarily require people with the courage to do unpleasant things to put it down. The truth is that something that is wrong in one circumstance is right in a different circumstance, not to be confused with "two wrongs making a right." This is a religious war, Islam vs. Judeo-Christianity, and no matter how much we wish it wasn't so, that is inevitably how it will play out.
Until people in America and the West accept the truth that this IS indeed a religious war, they will continue to be bullied and weakened. ONLY when they accept that this is a WAR against Islam, with all the attending brutality and "unsensitive" acts winning a war requires, can Islam's bullying and deadly dangerous threat be resolved. We are willing to tolerate Islam, yes -- the problem is that Islam refuses to reciprocate -- always has, and always will.
Wow! T Nana, I didn't know that about the word "refugee," and I love the insight into your deeply-rooted American heritage! My half-dozen or so generations of family in America (mostly in California) are nothing compared to yours!
Man, I LOVE Free Republic! It's a pleasure and honor to FReep with you.
The problem is: THEY DON'T. Never have, and never will.
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
You of all people should know.
Go back to your Mormon bashing threads.
I don’t need to be preached to by a religious bigot.
I'd forgotten that.....
I am coming to recognize that what I and Palin and you like to describe as "wrong" is in fact more accurately described as "uncomfortable."
What seems "uncomfortable" for many, IMHO, is the bedrock Principle of Christianity.
Unlike Islam, Christianity IS the religion of peace.
Our Constitutional rights clearly protect this plan to burn the Koran, but to do it in the name of Christianity is not God-inspired.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one, FRiend.
Mr. Romney, my son is a soldier, and he knows that his life is in danger every single day. It will not be in MORE danger by burning this Qur’an!
He is in the army to protect the rights of Americans. The First amendment rights of Americans to free speech and freedom of Religion. He is in the Army to back up the right of this preacher to burn that Qur’an!
” “It puts troops in danger,”
So, if he doesn’t burn the Koran then the troops are in no danger. Didn’t think so.
Right. Who burned the Qur’an before 9-11-01? Who ‘inflamed’ them then? Who ‘inflamed’ them in 1993?
I was against this guy burning this thing, until I started to think about all the times the Bible has been destoryed; ten commandments removed, crosses burned and Jesus insulted; and all these same people said, “it is their constitutional right to do it”....
Nope, I am supporting this preacher. I think he is brave, standing up for free speech, and religious freedom.
“I don’t need to be preached to by a religious bigot.”
Gee, I thought you were against name calling?
I don’t either. But, for the people of our government, who burned thousands of Bibles, to start shaking their finger at a private citizen for exercising his constitutional rights...it turns my stomach.
It is time that we stop catering to the muslim’s feelings; especially when the American’s feelings are NEVER catered to! We burned thousands of Bibles in Afghanistan because it would make the muslims FEEL better. We can not burn one Qur’an in America, because it makes them FEEL bad!
Sorry, we need to teach the lesson that tolerance and respect is a two way street.
Would a NON-religious bigot fill the bill then?
WHAT??!!??
Mitt's no longer MORMON??
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