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Fri Sep 12, 2014, 01:30 PM Sep 2014

Tony Perkins thinks he's an "expert" on Islam and the Constitution...

Say Tony, what about your OWN religion?

Tony Perkins: US Constitution Doesn't Protect Muslims Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 9/12/2014 12:30 pm

The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who now styles himself as an Islamic scholar, said on his “Washington Watch” radio show yesterday that members of militant groups like ISIS are the real Muslims who are truly “practicing their faith.” Islam is such a danger, Perkins explained, that Muslim-Americans should not have the same religious freedoms as other citizens. Perkins, who was responding to a caller who worried that mosques in her hometown are harboring terrorist sleeper cells, said the vast majority of Muslims who aren’t committing acts of violence are all phony Muslims who “don’t really believe the Quran or practice it as its written.” He warned that Islam isn’t necessarily protected under the Constitution because it “tears at the fabric of our society” and undermines “ordered liberty,” adding that Islam is “not just a religion, it’s an economic system, it’s a judicial system and it’s a military system.” “Those things will tear and destroy the fabric of a democracy,” he said. “So we have to be very clear about our laws and restrain those things that will harm the whole. We are a nation that was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, that’s the foundation of our nation, not Islam, but the Judeo-Chrsitian God.” Perkins has previously described Islam as “evil” and said that LGBT-inclusive Christians shouldn’t have the same religious rights as conservatives because they aren’t real Christians.

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Tony Perkins thinks he's an "expert" on Islam and the Constitution... (Original Post) Archae Sep 2014 OP
Uh huh atreides1 Sep 2014 #1

atreides1

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Fri Sep 12, 2014, 01:50 PM
Sep 2014

Just like a vast majority of Christians are also phony, they don't believe in the teachings of Christ and are interested in only practicing the parts that would permit them to enslave, beat, and murder anyone who doesn't believe as they do!!!

Perhaps putting Perkins in a lion enclosure would be a way to see if God loves him as much as God loved Daniel!!!

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