Christians look to form 'new nation' within U.S.

[davidinalameda]

where can I contribute to these morans leaving my country

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38571

Calling the approval of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts "the straw that broke the camel's back," a group of Christian activists is in the beginning stages of an effort to have one state secede from the United States to become its own sovereign nation.

"Our Christian republic has declined into a pagan democracy," says Cory Burnell, president of ChristianExodus.org, a non-profit corporation based in Tyler, Texas. "There are some issues people just can't take anymore, and might finally wake up the complacent Christians."

[bbernardini]

1. Good riddance.

[mhr]

2. Live In Texas, Not Surprised, Tyler Is One Strange Place Politically

eom

[kimchi]

3. Dupe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1654399&mesg_id=1654399

And I say...buh bye; and more graphically: don't let the door hit ya where the Goddess splitcha.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Send them to Iraq!

"America Love It Or Leave It!"

[boobooday]

5. Oh what a place that will be

Hell on earth.

Why couldn't they have thought of that before they tried to trash our country?



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[TN al]

6. Wouldn't it be cool...

...if they all moved to texas

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. I hear there's a big spread down in Waco

that they can have.

Heck, why not give them everything in between Waco and Crawford, and leave the rest of the country to us heretics and heathens?

[shraby]

8. Why don't they buy an island

someplace and set up their own government??

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Islands are very expensive

Texas scrub is plentiful and cheap. Plus it's a lot hard to destroy the environment since there isn't much environment there to destroy.

[LynzM]

10. Since when....

Do we live in a "Christian republic" ????

That is all.

[Sperk]

11. Finally!!!!! Pack up all the Bible thumpers, stick them all in Texas

as say Good riddance!!!!! Don't let the door hit you on the way out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Imalittleteapot]

15. AMEN.

Yet another reason to leave this sorry state of mind - mine.

[Bandit]

12. I hope the door hits them in the ass on the way out.

I wish they would just leave the non-secular America for another country. Why stay here and create more enemies? We will not allow a seperation of our country to fit their needs. They need to go elsewhere. The sooner the better.

[maggrwaggr]

13. they can have Oklahoma. We'll take California

yes, I used to live there.

Yes, I would like California to secede from the US

[jmowreader]

41. But who's going to extract Bartcop?

He still lives there.

[Paradise]

14. if they do,

can we preemptively attack them? :shrug:

[rucky]

16. I hear there's lots of work in Iraq

and it's kinda nice this time of year.

[beyurslf]

17. Surely there is an island we can send them all too and they

can run it however they want.

[librechik]

31. there's a peninsula (FLorida) that they can have as far as I'm concerned

no offense, liberal Floridians--you can move to my state! (Colorado)
we can use a few extras...

[AgentLadyBug]

18. lord knows i hate all things religous, but i disagree with most here...

... when people on your team are screwing up, you fix and help them, you don't pack them off, you don't kill them.... we're here to help each other dammit - and the religous wackos are in some of the greatest need of help...

dammit, we're all americans, we're all on the same team, tho we often don't get along so well. our job should be to find ways to work together, not find ways to achieve "purity"....

i like the sports analogy - lotsa bigtime sports duos didn't care for each other personally, but for the greater team good, they were able to stifle their personal conflicts, and function excellently as a duo/team.

to allow secession means that america has failed - worse, it means that americans fucking *gave up* on america - fuck that - no secession in lincoln's time, and no secession in my time....

phew - lol

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

20. If they want to leave...

Let them leave. I am sure there is somewhere down around the southern tip of South America where they can settle and remake their paradise.

[AgentLadyBug]

22. do you say the same about your 6 year old?

who says he hates you and wants to leave? of course not.

in any case, what you're describing isn't secession, it's emigration.... they're quite different....

[CO Liberal]

39. You Mean Like Jonestown???

Where over 900 followers of the "Rev." Jim Jones killed themselves with poisoned Kool-Aid in 1979.

[guitar man]

42. Hmm

Now we have millions of *bush supporters poisining themselves with kool aid here.

[maggrwaggr]

21. these people need medication more than anything

they're suffering from a form of mass schizophrenia.

It's not unlike the thousands of people who in the 1800's fell for the belief that the rapture was coming. They all sold or gave away their possessions and waited for the date when it was supposed to happen.

It didn't happen and they all looked like idiots.

It was a similar sort of mass-delusional phenomenon.

[guitar man]

43. How?

How do we "fix" these people? They seem to have a major problem living in a society where people have liberties that run afoul of their personal beliefs.

If they are really that unhappy living in a free society they need to go. I agree that it isn't necessarily a good idea for them to take a state with them, but nonetheless, they need to go.

If this were to happen, we would need to institute strict border control policies. We have already suffered major terrorist attacks by religious fundamentalists, we don't need any more.

[Renew Deal]

19. We should invade Texas to save them from a murderous war criminal.

Bush will become the Ayatollah of Texas. It's America's responsibility to liberate the people of Texas from such evil.

[BayCityProgressive]

23. Didn't they already try this in the dark ages?

[candy331]

25. Sick disturbed people who are genuinely

not Christians according to what the Bible states. Sounds like that same bunch who were instrumental in having the leader of real Christianity (Jesus Christ) killed.

[davidinalameda]

24. send them to Iraq

and let Bushie be president over there

[truthbetold]

26. I heard...

California might break off from the United States sometime. How about we put them there?
:think:

[Taylor Mason Powell]

35. Uh, no thanks.

Really. We'll pass.

:-)

[sophie996]

40. thank you very much, but no thanks.

nm

[rdfi-defi]

27. what i take from this...

is that the "family values" issues have overtaken real issues. gay marriage is related to civil rights, and important, but is it as important as going to war in violation of international law, subversion of the bill of rights? These people are the perfect constituency, their "faith" programs them and tells them not to question their leaders. If their leaders tell them that "our christian republic has declined into a pagan democracy," they believe it. even if the truth is that we do not have democracy in this country, and the republic was overthrown in 2000 by the very people who are now telling them gay marriage is more important than the wars and domestic policy. i find it very funny that these people have been programed and rewired to the point they could suggest forming a new nation within the u.s., as if that would be allowed from a territorial standpoint. imagine a group of left libertarians (or right libertarians for that matter) saying they were going to set up a government free zone within the territorial u.s. they would be dead or in jail licket-e-split. (i did not read the link, too ridiculous) the other option to forming a christian nation within the u.s. is to form organizations within the state apparatus allah (pun intended) gw bush and his group of fundies. once they have enough political power they can force our secular republic to decline to the state of a christian theocracy. of course this last point is nothing new. this is a serious topic i thought i would throw in my 2 cents.

[FleshCartoon]

28. This is confusing.

I thought they already had formed a new nation that encompasses all of the U.S.

God does talk to Bush, right? Bush was called by God, right?

Et voila--a new nation with the U.S. has been formed.

[BabsSong]

29. Oh I do hope this group gets more and more publicity..............

It's the type of thing that may make a lot of people set down that beer and say "what the hell is going on in this country"??? If nothing else, maybe they will never let anyone from Texas rule anything in this country again!!!!!!!!

[tjwash]

30. Come on now, they are being PERSECUTED dammit!!

So what if Christians make up 90% of our population, they are over 90% in control of all branches of our government, of all American states and cities and schools, and are the board of directors of every major corporation. They are being trodden down!!

[markses]

32. Via con Dios, you lunatics

n/t

[kaitykaity]

33. The idea for Oregon, Washington, and N. California to

secede and become a country called "Cascadia" has been
around for years.

Real civil war. They want real civil war. :puke:

[greekspeak]

34. Good...they're taking initiative & not telling the rest of us to leave

Hallelujah, Praise any and all powers above. For once, they are getting the idea. Instead of expecting everyone they do not agree with to leave "their country," some fundimentalist pricks are taking the initative and realizing that maybe THEY could leave the country. I personally think it is a stupid cop out how people of their ilk expect us all to worship Bush or leave "their" country. But hey...if they want to go under their own power, let 'em. Then they can have the protestant theocracy they want, where nobody is free to worship, the women can all be barefoot and pregnant and covered in acres of cloth, and "men can be men." No gay people, no biological evolution taught in schools, church attendance by gunpoint. The rest of us can get on and advance with the rest of the world, while they fester in a replay of the dark ages. Its what they want after all.

[UrbScotty]

36. True Christians should stay away from them. (nt)

[yellowcanine]

37. South Carolina???? Someone needs to remind these morons that SC did this

once already - and it didn't turn out too well.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

38. SC? Why not Texas? Or both? Hell, we'll throw in AL & MS.

And, they can have a few more thrown in. Then BushCorp can have it's own little backward empire ready formed.

[mitchum]

44. I wish that they would all go 'walk those streets of gold" with Jesus...

and leave me the hell alone. If they're in such a hurry to get to heaven, why the dawdling and delay?

[GOPBasher]

45. That would be awesome!!!!

I hope they take four or five of those ultra right wing nutcase fundamentalist Christian states. Then we'll have the country back!!

[bigbillhaywood]

46. EVERYONE FIND OUT HOW TO CONTRIBUTE! n/t