Posted on 06/15/2010 10:01:31 AM PDT by redk
CNN published a story at 9:25 a.m. this morning titled "Haley's path to Christianity leaves some evangelicals uneasy." The story informs readers that Nikki Haley, who was raised a Sikh and converted to Christianity, "still attends Sikh services occasionally with her parents and extended family." It’s clearly a trouble-making attempt to gin up controversy among Republicans where there has been almost none, and so was able to find a couple pastors who question whether Haley, the frontrunner in next Tuesday's South Carolina gubernatorial primary runoff, is really a Christian.
At 9:38 a.m., the CNN story was emailed to a colleague by a campaign consultant working for Haley's opponent, Rep. Gresham Barrett.
One strongly suspects this attempt to take the low road won’t work, and Haley will crush Barrett in the runoff next week. But does Gresham Barrett, who has had a good reputation and would seem to have a promising political career still ahead of him, really want to go down this path?
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yeah, because of your dislike for anything Nikki, Palin etc....
“still attends Sikh services occasionally with her parents”
Hmm,,didn’t our current Fearless Leader school the press that you can sit in a church for YEARS and not subscribe to the doctrine taught.......?
“Hmm,,didn’t our current Fearless Leader school the press that you can sit in a church for YEARS and not subscribe to the doctrine taught.......?”
Yep, and when was the last time an Indian Sikh drove a plane into a building?
I say, “So what?” I was raised a protestant and converted to Orthodox Christianity, but, while my father was still alive, attended protestant services with family.
(Incidentally, Sikhism is the only religion arising after the coming of Christ and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles at Pentecost for which I have any respect—its founders, living in a time and place devoid of the light of the Gospel and stuck between the barbarous teachings of Mohammed and the refined paganism of the Hindus, seem to me to have chosen largely the little bits of truth found in each.)
EXACTLY! I was best man for a college roommate in a Catholic church. Doesn't make me a practicing Catholic.
Note to CNN and other leftist media:
I realize that you all go to great lengths to portray us a simple-minded Christian rubes, but you would be surprised to learn that most of us have don’t have a problem with people of other religious groups - except islam, which many of us suspect is the faith of the current president.
Trying to scare us away from Haley because she is a Sikh won’t work. We aren’t as closed minded as you think/wish/hope.
It worked for Coley Blease in ‘24.
And like it or not it is a fair question. It really is. You don’t run for statewide office in South Carolina unless you’re willing to lay it all on the line.
This reflects badly on Barrett, not Haley.
There’s really not. It’s just that the Sarah Palin fan club has latched onto her in that state as the next sort of Palin.
If she wasn’t an attractive woman they wouldn’t be doing it and I worry about the country when so many people are willing to throw in with a candidate just because they are an attractive woman.
I don’t have a dog in this fight but my in-laws in SC do. They split between Bauer and Barrett in the primary (would have been all Bauer except Barrett went to the Citadel and they’re a big Citadel family) and they’re all going with Barrett now.
How exactly does it reflect badly?
It’s a legitimate question and one I still ask about Jindal.
She was raised as a Sikh. She then says she converts to Methodism but then keeps attending Sikh services?
In a state like South Carolina it is a legitimate question because they would not elect a Sikh on their own. So, whether or not she’s really Christian or is just playing one to get votes is a legit question and like it or not this has come up in South Carolina races in the past.
Evidently there is something to her. If not, why are the establishment Republicans trying to destroy her?
You really think Barrett is on ‘our’ side?
There is more evidence that Haley is a Christian than Obama.
I’ve never seen Haley on TV talking about “her Sikh faith” or saying that Sikh prayers are her favorite sound -— nor have there been any foreign officials who state that she confessed she was Sikh.
Obama, on the other hand . .
Jindal expressed publically his conversion and his faith in Christ.
I think he is a RC, but he had a classic “born again” conversion.
He’s been very open about it.
The same reason people at various times came after Tillman, Blease and Thurmond.
If you know South Carolina political tradition you know that throughout South Carolina political history politicians have come along who have basically used their relationship with the people to try and enforce their will on the state.
Haley might be an India Indian but she still comes in that same political tradition of the state and you can hardly blame people who see Tillman’s face at Clemson and still learn about Thurmond’s exploits from being a little wary when someone else comes along who might try and make the state their own personal oyster.
Barrett's connection to Huckabee?
Taxes
Barrett is a staunch opponent of the federal income tax, and has sponsored legislation to replace it with a national retail sales tax, called the “FairTax.”"DeMint battles earmarks,” The (Rock Hill, S.C.) Herald, January 11, 2008.(8)"DeMint battles earmarks,” The (Rock Hill, S.C.) Herald, January 11, 2008.Barrett has worked with former presidential candidate/ Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in promoting the FairTax. Barrett has also lobbied hard to promote a “Taxpayer Bill of Rights” requiring balanced budgets and guaranteeing return of taxes taken for retirement programs.Hyde, Paul, “Spending limits?,” The Greenville (S.C.) News, April 16, 2007.(9)
The thing about that is that Jindal grew up in Baton Rouge where everyone is Catholic. So how do we really know that his conversion was in his heart and not to fit in with the kids in Baton Rouge?
Jindal ended up still marrying the wife who had been arranged for him by his parents. If he were a Catholic in his heart why keep with that Hindu marriage custom?
Haley at least has that going for her. She did marry a local good ole boy which means she is probably more legit then I suspect about Jindal.
Bobby Jindal wrote extensively about his conversion in the New Oxford Review. The essays were used by the Democrats to attack him in his last gubernatorial run.
1. TARP
2. Not doing the gentlemanly thing of conceeding so we can get on to the general.
3. Playing the religion card
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