#3 My question to pollster1 in post #46 applies to you as well...If Newt or Rick's religious membership led them to believe they are "gods-in-embryo" -- with a full "godship" and accompanying own creative world to come -- you think that their announcement about adhering to such a religious belief is somehow "off the political table?" Especially if the candidate NEVER addresses this belief? Really?
If Obama announced tomorrow that he was Messiah II, but said he would discuss it no further, according to the convictions expressed by you and pollster1, you would have to begin going thru EVERY thread to defend Obama from the religious critiques on those thread if you were really motivated to keep FR from being "kookyish and bigoted."
(Yeah, like that would happen)
Therefore...I ask: Why is it:
I NEVER SEE YOU OR POLLSTER1 OR ANY FREEPER EVER call on the carpet ANY OBAMA COMMENTS THAT ...
(a)...HE IS A CLOSET MUSLIM...
...OR (b) DISPLAYS RADICAL RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS DUE TO HIS TIES TO REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT...
Nor, btw, did I see ANY FREEPER object when the Christian Science Monitor reported in late 2007 whereby Romney said he wouldn't place a Muslim on his Cabinet.
If you & pollster1, and other FREEPERs were so motivated in your expressions to "root out" perceived religious intolerance, you'd go after those posters critiquing Obama. (But you don't)
[Note: There were three such threads on Easter Sunday alone; and one less than a week before & another less than a week after...And a disclaimer is in order here: I think Obama should be called on the carpet re: Rev. J. Wright + his catering to Muslims...tho it'd be nice if FReepers actually documented his "closet Muslim" status instead of just gossipping it]
If you & pollster1, and other FREEPERS were one ounce consistent in your convictions to keep religion "hermetically sealed" from the political arena, you'd go after those posters critiquing Obama. (But you don't)
That leaves me to only one conclusion: Either that's not your real motivation -- to as you claim, keep FR from looking "Kookyish or bigoted" --
...or you posters are among the biggest dual-faced hypocrites we have on FR!
So...you've got two choices...come clean on your motivations here...or confess that you're inconsistent & hypocritical on these religio-political issues.
Everyone has to have a hobby, right?