Akin Bonds Ever Tighter With Evangelicals

[TomCADem]

Source: Wall Street Journal

ST. LOUIS—In a 13-minute speech at a campaign stop this week, Missouri's Republican senatorial candidate, Rep. Todd Akin, never mentioned jobs or the economy. He did, however, mention God—31 times.

"God is the start of it all," Mr. Akin told about 150 attendees at the "Missouri Women Standing with Todd Akin" rally Monday afternoon.

Mr. Akin, a six-term representative from the St. Louis area, has long been a favorite of evangelical Christians who support his positions against abortion and same-sex marriage. Now, two months after he triggered a national uproar by saying that female bodies can avoid pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape," Mr. Akin has retreated deeper into the protection of that evangelical base. His comments, in an August interview with a St. Louis television station, turned what had been seen as a likely Republican pickup of a Democratic seat into a challenge for the GOP.

With the party establishment distancing itself from the congressman, Mr. Akin has favored churches for events, relied on home-schoolers for volunteers and filled parking lots with cars bearing bumper stickers trumpeting creationism.


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The Corporate Christians continue their war on women and the poor.

[hatrack]

1. Friends, could this be you? Can't talk policy, don't know shit, and you're an asshole?

What to do?

Why, thump the Jeezus-Tub, of course!

[gordianot]

2. He so needs to find a new career one that does not interact with people.

[hrmjustin]

3. I think he knows he is going to loose and now he wants to get into heaven now so he will...

...talk up God.

[PatrynXX]

4. all the while his feet are getting warm

He can talk to God but he's ignoring Jesus.. I have serious doubts that the same Jesus who prevented the stoning of a prostitute would advocate raping a woman again after she's raped. Thats not how I was raised.

[defacto7]

5. Steeped in the bonds of religion...

It's the most pervasive and successful scam in the history of humankind. Control the masses, stupefy them, keep them dumb, offer them answers to their fears but keep the fearful, that's the trick. Offer them something that will take away the destiny of us all, death, and replace it with esoterica, the delights of perfection where worms and dust doth not corrupt. It's the control game of millennia.

As for me.. give me truth, give me reason, give me freedom for ignorance.

[Suji to Seoul]

6. Onward Christian Soldiers, marching off to war. . .