Posted on 01/10/2012 12:09:48 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
US Republican presidential candidate criticized as "religiously exclusionist" for saying, "We always need a Jesus candidate."
BOSTON – Jewish groups slammed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Friday for telling listeners of a Boston radio show that “we always need a Jesus guy” in the campaign.
Santorum, formerly a Pennsylvania senator and the second-place winner of the Iowa caucus, made the remark Thursday after being asked about a listener’s comment that “we don’t need a Jesus guy this election. We need an economics guy this election.”
Santorum continued, “Do you stand up and say, ‘God bless America?’ Do you mean it? Are you just saying it? The idea that we don’t need someone with a moral compass, is that what we’ve come to? Is that what the Republican party is? No, it isn’t.”
The candidate, who then went on to campaign in New Hampshire, which will hold its first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday, reportedly repeated the conversation later in the day, relating that he had said, “We always need a Jesus candidate.”
Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman told The Jerusalem Post that Santorum’s remarks were “totally inappropriate. It’s crossing the line.”
“It says to Jews, to Muslims, to Buddhists, to non-believers, you’re not part of this country,” he added.
“I think the average Jew hears it as religiously exclusionist,” National Jewish Democratic Council president David Harris said, though he added that he didn’t think Santorum had meant it that way.
“It helps remind American Jews of the yawning gap between them and today’s Republican Party,” continued Harris, whose partisan organization backs US President Barack Obama.
But Foxman pointed out that Democrats had also invoked Jesus in their campaigns in past elections, and noted Santorum has not been the only candidate in this election cycle to bring Christianity into the public conversation.
The Santorum campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
However, at a later event, he reportedly clarified his statement.
“I said we always need a Jesus candidate,” he was quoted as saying. “I don’t mean necessarily that we always need a Christian, but we need someone who believes in something more than themselves.”
The ADL hates Jesus, despises believing Christians. Obama is their candidate. Who cares what they think?
When someone says, “A Jesus candidate”... they tend to mean a candidate that worships Jesus.
Not someone who is the same religion as Jesus.
Or are you really trying to claim that Santorum was saying that there is always a need for a Jewish candidate?
I beg to differ... While the Jews of Jerusalem may have pushed the issue and got him crucified - WE: You, me, and the rest of this sinful world put Jesus on the Cross.
ADL should shut up and stop embarrassing themselves. Bunch of Obama-voters over there (I’m Jewish)
I see evidence around the world that Jesus existed; the pagan Romans gave us as good a record as anyone else.
Anyone who doubts the existence of Jesus Christ (not what He was, but that He existed) has ended any intelligent conversation before it even had a chance.
A great hoax has been foisted upon us. The Bible makes it very clear who the Israel of God is and it is not those who hate Jesus Christ. The children of promise are NOT the physical descendants of Abraham.
For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall they seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. (Romans 9:6b-8)
Many will not accept this, but this is what the scriptures say. True Israel are those who are born of the Spirit, not the flesh. True Israel has always been those who believe in God. And when God was manifest in the flesh (see 1 Timothy 3:16), one cannot believe in God and deny God (Jesus Christ). Those who believed God then, readily received Jesus Christ.
I believe it borders on blasphemy to call this group "Jews", when they are not. (see Revelation 2:9 and 3:9).
I've listened many times to the videos ~ the sound isn't even synched to his lips and he did not say BLACK.
We don't need to do that.
Try instead to question the notorious Abraham Foxman whose life was saved in infancy by a priest and a nun to whom he was given as an infant by his parents before they were deported from Lithuania (?) to be murdered in the Nazi death camps (even if soi dissant schismatic Bishop Williamson denies the Holocaust). Foxman is in a permanent snit because the Vatican (for whatever reasons of its own refuses to obey him and to disclose the names of the priest and nun to him. Just another permanent whiny malcontent with an unjustified attitude of resentment against the Vatican because it won't march to his tune even when he owes his very life to the subordinates of the Vatican.
What is the source for Karol Wojtlywa’s involvement?
Well, every decade or so, I get some of the facts wrong. Wikipedia makes no reference to Foxman being given to a priest and a nun but I remember that Foxman got involved in some dustup with the Vatican by trying to extract the names of a priest and a nun to whom he had been entrusted in infancy. The story came out when Foxman was bashing Mel Gibson. The Boston Office of the ADL was run by some fellow who publicly called on Foxman to stifle his sniping at Catholics and the Church because it was an embarrassment to ADL. Another poster has referenced that somehow Foxman was returned to is parents (who apparently survived the Holocaust unlike 6 million other Jews and 5 million others including many Catholics)through the offices of JP II when he was a parish priest. I have never heard that before and I have asked for confirmation of that story.
Even the name of Jesus burns the ears of some people. I look at it as their problem, not mine.
“Where did Santorum apologize? Certainly not in the last paragraph. Being polite is not an apology.”
The ADL said that Santorum apologized and contemptuously kicked him again:
After Santorum Apologizes, ADL Reiterates Concern About Use of Nazi Imagery In Filibuster Debate
New York, NY, May 20, 2005 … After Senator Rick Santorum apologized for his remarks comparing the Democrats use of the filibuster to oppose judicial nominees to “the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942,” the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reiterated its concern about inappropriate comparisons to Nazis and the Holocaust in political debates, which are becoming all-too common in Washington.
“Once again, Nazi imagery was used in a political debate, where it has no place,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “Whatever your views on the Senate rules relating to the use of the filibuster and judicial nominations, it is inappropriate and insensitive to compare American democratic procedures with actions taken by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.” [...]
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/4719_52.htm
when you get done with that let me know how yer research on nuclear fusion is going
Odious?
dang...you must be educated..NYU?
He didn’t backtrack, he clarified.
We all killed Christ. The Jewish crowd yelled out, “Crucify Him,” and the gentile roman soldiers nailed Him to the cross. We are all sinners, we all put Him to death, and He freely died for all of us.
That apology was not for Catholicism nor as to anything in the posted article but for citing Demonrat Senate tactics i blocking decent judges and that was nearly 7 years ago.
When I think of Nazi tactics in Washington, I think of Nancy Pelosi's behavior as Speaker. I also think that if Obozo gets any mor opportunities to nominate any mor judge or any more federal officials of any sort requiring Senate confirmation, GOP senators should just say no. If the judiciary ceases to function, then it will be because Obozo was elected/or re-elected and because the GOP in the latter event did not nominate a sufficiently conservative candidate.
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