Republican senator spent the end of his life apologizing to Muslims for Trump

MSN ^ | 5/19/2016 | Catherine Garcia

[HomerBohn]

Before he died May 4 from complications stemming from pancreatic cancer and a stroke, former GOP Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah asked his wife, Joyce, and son, Jim, if there were any Muslims in his hospital. If so, he wanted to "go up to every single one of them to thank them for being in this country, and apologize to them on behalf of the Republican Party for Donald Trump."

Joyce and Jim Bennett shared this story with The Daily Beast, as well as other tales involving his disgust with "Donald Trump's xenophobia" and proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Bob Bennett did not end up meeting with Muslims in the hospital, but his wife said while they were at the airport over Christmas, he "would go to people with the hijab [on] and tell them he was glad they were in America and they were welcome here. He wanted to apologize on behalf of the Republican Party."

Jim Bennett also said as a Mormon, his father "recognized the parallel between the Mormon experience and the Muslim experience," and "wanted to see these people treated with kindness and not ostracized."

Bob Bennett had "absolutely no respect for Donald Trump," Jim Bennett said, and was likely "angry and frustrated when it became clear that the party wasn't going to steer clear of Trumpism."

[bert]

wimpy namby pamby think there do gooders are the bane of society

[Elsie]

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.

HMMMmmm...

In 1962, Bennett married Joyce McKay, a granddaughter of David O. McKay, the ninth president of the LDS Church.

[Elsie]

Hey!

We'd like an apology; TOO!!

http://www.southernute-nsn.gov/

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The gruesome be headings of some 40 Ute corpses in 1850, heads stacked in boxes,

and hung by their long hair from the eves of buildings at Fort Utah,

has long been ignored, “You didn’t see the Indians beheading the Mormons.”

 

-- Historian Robert Carter

[Psalm 144]

Yep. Those peckerwoods were my people, culturally. Some don’t forget.

[Elsie]

Are you ready for the...

...that was then and this is now folks to reply?

[libh8er]

If ISIS had their way, they still would have sliced off the head of the dying man.