"Our nation was founded in part by those fleeing religious persecution. Freedom of religion is integral to our charters of liberty. We don’t need to agree with each other on theological matters, but tolerating each other without unnecessarily provoking strife is how we ensure a civil society. In this as in all things, we should remember the Golden Rule. Isn’t that what the Ground Zero mosque debate has been about?" -- Sarah Palin
"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." -- Mitt Romney
I love how she twists the knife. She knows how to always work our message into the discussion.
No, actually, Palin didn’t say the same thing at all. Only Romney made the ridiculous charge that burning Korans “violated” a founding principle. Palin said no such thing. And in any case, Palin has it wrong in two ways: it IS necessary to provoke strife as a symbolic warning (see Grumplestiltskin’s very excellent post 159) to a religion that would establish itself in our nation but aggressively refuse to reciprocate our tolerance, and the Golden Rule cannot apply when threatened with an enemy determined to destroy us, and THIS IS WAR, an ancient one that’s been going on for 1,400 years. Palin, like most Americans, will deny that unpleasant reality for as long as she can. Jesus never told his followers to lay down and allow themselves to be slain by their enemies.
It ain't the EACH OTHER that we gotta worry about, but them HORDES fuming and ranting outside our borders.
Gov. Palin is for FREEDOM.
The Romney-WORM is for fascism controlled by him and the DNC.
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Mr. Romney "Disses" Amateur Radio In Televised Town Meeting
Our nation was founded in part by those fleeing religious persecution.
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Yes my French Huguenot ancsetors fled into England and the English sent the family of a father anfd 5 children on to the colonies..His Holy Book, the Christian Bible (a copy of Calvin’s Protestant version) was baked inside a loaf of bread so the Catholic soldiers couldnt find it and BURN it and kill them for having it..Hmmmmmm
BTW the word “refugee” comes from the fleeing French Huguenots in need of refuge..
As a 11th geneeration descendant of that original religiously persecuted man fleeing for his very life, I will say that burning the koran, or the blue god’s religious book or a book of mormon or and other non-Christian writing or the Bible is not prohibited under the Constitution...
Where was your outrage and march on Washington with 500,000 strong when a cross was soaked in urine ???