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The GOP just lost its only non-Christian in Congress
The Washington Post ^ | June 11, 2014 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 06/11/2014 5:22:37 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's primary loss means Congress will soon say goodbye to its only Jewish Republican.

And not only that; it also means there will likely be no Republicans in Congress who profess to be anything other than a Christian.

According to data collected by the Pew Forum at the start of the 113th Congress last year, the GOP conference was 69 percent Protestant, 25 percent Catholic, 4 percent Mormon and 1 percent Orthodox Christian.

Cantor (Va.) was the only member of any other faith on the Republican side in either the House or the Senate -- out of 278 members. There are no non-religious Republicans in Congress either.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Evangelical Christian; General Discusssion; Judaism; Other Christian; Religion & Politics
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“Not true. I believe Keith Ellison is a Muslim and didn’t he take the oath of office with his hand on the Book of Satan er the Koran?”

Yes, but Ellison is a DEMOCRAT so he hardly fits the profile of “Republicans in Congress who profess to be anything other than a Christian.”


61 posted on 06/11/2014 8:04:47 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Faith Presses On; rbmillerjr; Lowell1775; JPX2011; NKP_Vet; Jed Eckert; Recovering Ex-hippie; ...
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62 posted on 06/11/2014 8:07:17 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Dave Brat is described as a devout Roman Catholic


63 posted on 06/11/2014 8:08:14 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: skeeter

Propaganda.
Democrat propaganda.


64 posted on 06/11/2014 8:09:11 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: ansel12
Since no Christian denomination considers Mormonism Christian, why would an anti-Christian newspaper call it Christian?

To create utter confusion.

65 posted on 06/11/2014 8:57:58 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Eva
You are wrong. Cantor lost because he turned the grassroots of his own constituents, the people who do the real work. Cantor attended a George Soros funded, anti-TeaParty rally/conference in Florida. Even Boehner had the sense to back out after the news got out, but not Cantor.

Maybe Cantor will become a Democrat now, with the Soros blessing, so to speak.

66 posted on 06/11/2014 9:00:10 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

We would still have Rand Paul and his followers to contend with. Rand Paul has recently come out as far from conservative interests as Eric Cantor ever was. I thought that it was an interesting end around on the prisoner exchange that Paul did tonight when asked what he thought of it.

Paul said that it should be dealt with as a legal problem, that Obama broke the law and that the five Taliban should face a military tribunal. How do you do that after Obama already released them?

Drudge has an article that Rand Paul supports Obama’s immigration.


67 posted on 06/11/2014 9:51:10 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Faith Presses On

Aaron Blake.....Jewish himself

Cares about the GOP

Cry me river

Cantor was largely dismembered by a Jew in radio

Take up anti semitism with him Blake..


68 posted on 06/11/2014 10:02:09 PM PDT by wardaddy (we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT; Clintonfatigued; justiceseeker93; ...

To Preface, this is not pro-Cantor post, he’s gone, to hell with him.

Now then, a lot of people on this thread are saying “So, who cares?”. Lord Levin, himself a Jew, says says it doesn’t matter and the GOP should stop “chasing genitalia” and ethnic groups.

Simple political fact is that people like to see themselves represented in a political party and are more likely to vote for it if they do. We here only care if candidate is conservative (and some of us care if he/she is electable as well) and that’s it. Personally I don’t give a crap about the race/ethnicity/gender of anyone. But’s it’s not our votes we have to worry about. Don’t like that? Tough, that’s politics.

That’s why we should run CONSERVATIVE Women, Blacks, Hispanics, and Jews ect. ect. It does matter, it’s good for the party.

One Jewish Republican with a good chance at getting elected to the House this year is NY State Senator Lee Zeldin, in New York District one. He already has the Conservative nomination but faces a GOP primary (he and his foe George Demos both call the other liberal) before getting to moonbat rat Rep. Tim Bishop.


69 posted on 06/12/2014 12:02:04 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: skeeter

oh huh,
Everyone knows Cantor lost his race because he is Jewish.
Damn anti Jew Republicans,
or something!!

Didn’t know and couldn’t care less what his religion is, I don’t care for his amnesty bull.


70 posted on 06/12/2014 3:45:15 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT; Clintonfatigued; justiceseeker93; randita; ...

I think that, apart from Zeldin, there are several other Jewish Republicans running for Congress, but they’re longshots. Ben Streusand of TX-36 would be on his way to Congress, but he lost the runoff.

But I think that it is false to say that Cantor was the only House Republican who practiced a religion ither than Christianity: Massey, Amash and Bentivolio are Ronulans.


71 posted on 06/12/2014 5:19:58 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; KC_Lion; Clintonfatigued; ...

Sounds like it’s time for me and KC Lion to run. Need more GOP Israelites in office.


72 posted on 06/12/2014 5:48:59 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Khent is not stable... be advised...)
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To: GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion; Clintonfatigued

Wait for it... Here it comes... 5...4...3...2...1 ....

Now, of course, the Tea Party is “Anti-Semitic” AS WELL AS “rayyyyycist”!!!

/sarc

sigh....


73 posted on 06/12/2014 5:55:27 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; Clintonfatigued
I wish the Dem's would follow their quota's they set for us.

Cantor is a RINO of the first order, him being Jewish doesn't effect this election for me.

74 posted on 06/12/2014 5:56:38 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; Clintonfatigued

Sounds like they cut more than your schmeckle at your bris.

:)


75 posted on 06/12/2014 5:58:10 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Khent is not stable... be advised...)
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To: KC_Lion; GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued

It’s amazing how the left drags out the playbook.

To them, people are nothing more than a race, an ethnicity, a religious denomination (other than Christian) as needed.

What continually amazes - and saddens - me, is that so many fall for it. You’d think it would be obvious by now, after watching it played out over and over for decades.


76 posted on 06/12/2014 6:06:32 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; KC_Lion; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued

I know what playbook needs to be dusted off; I’ve been calling for it for years...it contains a “solution” to all problems.


77 posted on 06/12/2014 6:14:21 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Khent is not stable... be advised...)
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To: cloudmountain

Mormons claim to be Christian with one hand and say they aren’t with the other.

Mormons claim that God once used to be a man. This is utter blaspheme. In other words, God used to be a sinner. Complete and utter blaspheme.

They also believe that they (Temple Mormans) will be God one day as well.

Shall I go on?


78 posted on 06/12/2014 6:36:27 AM PDT by Tolkien (Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; campaignPete R-CT; BillyBoy; Sun; fieldmarshaldj; justiceseeker93

Too bad about Streusand, safe seat.

As you say, there are probably a few more Jewish candidates who are less than competitive, but I’m not familiar. Alicia Eck in NJ-12 may or may not be Jewish, don’t know. Those German names.

I’m thinking Zeldin is the better choice in that NY primary, of course Cantor is doing a fundraiser for him so he muuuuuuuust be a RINO dog, as Demos says. Nasty primary, hyperbolic attacks on both sides, hope it doesn’t hurt us for the general. And I hope if Demos wins that Zeldin quits as the Conservative nominee, can’t split the vote.

I’ll forever curse that moron Felix Grucci for giving us Bishop. Grucci would have won if he had just ignored Bishop.


79 posted on 06/12/2014 6:48:59 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Faith Presses On

The GOP feels it has to make sure that Cantor’s seat goes to the Dems. If Brat wins, it means they are in big trouble. If he loses, and they can paint the TEA party as Nazi’s, the status quo will (for them hopefully) return.

Either way, the GOP is moving against Brat. I expect that you will see all kinds of interesting tricks to take him out.

If I had to guess, there will be a move to tie Brat in with the people who were hunting cops in Vegas (Gadsen and nazi flags on the bodies).


80 posted on 06/12/2014 7:12:24 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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