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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 03:42 PM Feb 2015

Dana Loesch leads religion pity party at CPAC: ‘It’s time to make Christians a protected class’

Columnist Cal Thomas, radio host Dana Loesch, and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins took part in a CPAC panel on religious freedom Saturday, and they pronounced that times were dire for followers of Jesus Christ.

“I feel like it’s time to make Christians a protected class,” Dana Loesch said, as the discussion reached a fevered pitch of self-pity. Thomas chimed in that “our commander in chief” — who is Jesus, not President Obama — instructed his followers that they would experience persecution.


Then Thomas and Loesch admitted that it just wouldn’t be worth being a Christian if you couldn’t feel persecuted. “And since we have the victim competition in the United States,” Loesch added, “I think we win.”

Here, watch them climb up on those crosses for yourself…



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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/dana-loesch-leads-religion-pity-party-at-cpac-its-time-to-make-christians-a-protected-class/
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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. The GOP is infested with Christian extremists and terrorists, I mean they are not even hiding it anymore
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 03:45 PM
Feb 2015

They are grinning and hating away in chairs on a national stage...and the nation remains silent....

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
6. But they say they are Christians and acting in the name of Jesus...so...they must be Christians...
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:09 PM
Feb 2015

this is very confusing....

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
8. What's confusing?
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:12 PM
Feb 2015

I would think a Christian would act like Jesus might. and practice what he taught.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
9. No one on this panel is a Christian....I agree. They shall be known by their deeds not their tongues
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:17 PM
Feb 2015

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
2. What is so sad is that she is dead serious.
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 03:49 PM
Feb 2015

I see that CPAC has really upped it's tone and agenda. If they weren't so freaking scary, they might be amusing.

Arkansas Granny

(31,538 posts)
5. Cry me a river, Dana. Just because Christians are not allowed to force their beliefs on others,
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:08 PM
Feb 2015

it does not equal persecution. This appears to be their mantra anytime their desire to establish a theocracy is thwarted.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
7. Poor souls, some for sure, seem blissfully unaware, as they count their pieces of gold, of what "tools" they are.
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:11 PM
Feb 2015
 

Humanist_Activist

(7,670 posts)
10. Fucking dumbass, Christians are a protected class, they fall under "religion" in
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 05:28 PM
Feb 2015

protected classes, but that also means they are on equal footing with all other religions and non-religious philosophies and groups as well. They aren't asking to be protected, but to be put on a pedestal, to be put above everyone else.

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