Posted on 01/18/2008 3:29:29 PM PST by Maelstorm
At a campaign stop attended by a CBS reporter in Lady's Island, S.C., Thompson was asked if he, "as a Christian, as a conservative," supported President Bush's global AIDS initiative. "Christ didn't tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it," Thompson responded. "The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as Christians on the other."
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We are at $1,183,359 of the 1.5 Million goal!
We are shocking the world and sending the media a message that WE not THEY choose our nominee.
We are going to take the Fred all the way through SC, Florida, Super Tuesday and beyond!
Good for Fred! Christ works through the Church, not through the government.
What a sickening editorial!
A perfect statement from Fred.
Great to see the ComPost shrieking like ninnies about it, too.
Go, FRed, GO!!
That’s it! I give up....now I’m going to have to vote for him.
And also so very correct. The man obviously knows his Christianity. I wonder how the Huckster would do on the same question. I'd bet he'd opt for "charity by government fiat".
Is everyone here on board to Phone for Fred tonight and tomorrow? http://fred08.com/grassroots/start.aspx
Get your list and do what we do best change the world!!!
what did they expect?...HUGS / KISSES, they LMSM, have nothing but contempt for Real America(ns).
Indeed it is. What you need to keep in mind about these illiberals is that they prefer Government (others) to do what they should be doing themselves. Its much easier to fake compassion through other people than to put forth the effort on their own. They are typically morally lazy, unthoughtful in any real sense, and totally self absorbed. They are typically the most elitist and as he so called Fred the most callous people around.
Yeah, Government is their religion.
and mind control of the dumbed down serfs
Fred absolutely nailed this issue with the only proper response, both for a Christian and for a conservative.
I don’t know of any Christian version Bible that tells us to reach in our neighbor’s pocket to satisfy our moral obligations to our fellow men. I don’t know what part of our Constitution gives power to any politician to take money from one citizen and give it to another. Yet, some politicians find it easily.
Definitely worthy of a Barf Alert, though it did highlight some of the key reasons I’m voting for Fred.
I agree! I can't stand the preening sanctimoniousness of leftists who think that their "altruism" with other peoples money is a virtue.
There's a "high stakes ideological struggle" in this country too.
People give money to African charities because they believe their money can do some good there. While a lot of people have the oppurtunity to be educated about and avoid sexually transmitted diseases, the horrific state of much of Africa leaves much to be desired. You’re assuming most Africans in AIDS-plagued countries have the same level of knowledge about the disease as we do in the West, which simply isn’t so.
While I don’t support government-funded charity, it doesn’t mean people suffering from AIDS are all idiots who take no precautions. It means they’ve never known what precautions to take, and have never really had an oppurtunity to find out.
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