Quote:David Ball, the chair of the Washington County [Pennsylvania] GOP, vented his anger at Sen. Pat Toomey, fellow Republican of Pennsylvania, who committed the apostasy of joining six other GOP senators in voting to convict former president Donald Trump of inciting insurrection.

“We did not send him there to vote his conscience,” Ball said on Monday. “We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us.”

Quote:Twitter users seized on Ball’s apparent suggestion that Toomey should have ignored doing “the right thing” and voted to acquit Trump.

“Reminds me of what an Iowa GOP voter said during my primary challenge to Trump,” tweeted former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, who ran a long-shot campaign against Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination.

“She asked why I’d run against Trump,” he continued. “I said because it was the right thing to do. She screamed at me ‘We don’t want you to do the right thing. We want you to stand with our President. No matter what!’”

Quote:As RawStory notes, Cawthorn has no medical degree, law degree, degree in religious studies, or any of a number of other accreditations that you might think would be useful when talking about this kind of thing. However, that didn’t stop him from denouncing Vatican City’s decision.

“This doesn’t sound legal,” he tweeted Thursday. ”One shouldn’t be forced against their will to be vaccinated. The vaccination is there for those who want it, and are in need of it due to medical vulnerabilities.”

Quote:Fr. Robert R. Ballecer, SJ
@padresj
Pssst...
The Vatican isn't in California.
- or the United States.
- or part of Country
It's a sovereign nation.
...
I'm pretty sure that you don't want OUR civil laws applying in California.
But, your call.
9:50 AM · Feb 19, 2021

(02-20-2021, 06:50 PM)nocarename Wrote: I don't think we really want to rerun the Protestant split again though.

(02-21-2021, 10:48 AM)Norgarth Wrote:

(02-20-2021, 06:50 PM)nocarename Wrote: I don't think we really want to rerun the Protestant split again though.

well, judging by their actions and statements, a large number of Republican politicians (and quite a few of the extreme Right's voters) aren't actually Christian, seeing on how often they do/say things that ignore or go directly against Christ's teachings.  The split is already there, we just haven't acknowledged it.

(02-21-2021, 11:27 AM)nocarename Wrote:

(02-21-2021, 10:48 AM)Norgarth Wrote:

(02-20-2021, 06:50 PM)nocarename Wrote: I don't think we really want to rerun the Protestant split again though.

well, judging by their actions and statements, a large number of Republican politicians (and quite a few of the extreme Right's voters) aren't actually Christian, seeing on how often they do/say things that ignore or go directly against Christ's teachings.  The split is already there, we just haven't acknowledged it.

I was thinking more about having people declare their split from the Vatican again.

If it's possible to pry Christians and Christian churches from the various right wing parties? Hurrah, god speed, and good luck!

But I don't know where to put the lever or the wedge for that fight except face to face and one at a time.

(02-24-2021, 07:41 PM)SilverFang01 Wrote: Matt Gaetz* is suddenly worried about the power of the FBI to have access to his phone data

Which is funny considering how many times Congress has renewed the Patriot Act and made more secret laws in the name of “national security.”

Of course, they didn’t give a damn as long as it was other people who would be affected. But NOW he has problems with it.