mr. frist you asshole, liberals are not 'against people of faith' o.k?

[mopaul]

so stop using jesus as your own personal football and your bornagain voting bloc as the fans.

it's not nice to use jesus like a football or a weapon asshole.

[Mz Pip]

1. Amen

Jesus as your own personal weapon. Where's the love, dude? Or did your heart go totally dark when you were killing those kitties? And how did you get into Med School?

Frist is an embarrassment. It's hard to believe that the majority of the country would back the kind of crap he puts out. Thing is I seriously doubt many people are paying attention - just his cheering section who are loud and irrational and us. Somehow we have to turn up the volumn on this without stooping to hyperbole.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Withywindle]

2. Kerry touched on this so fiercely yesterday

I saw his speech on the Senate floor. Here's a quote but it doesn't do justice to how angry he sounded (think he adlibbed a bit too):

"Are we really willing to allow the Senate to fall in line with the Majority Leader when he invokes faith to rewrite Senate rules to put substandard, extremist judges on the bench?

It’s not up to any one of us to tell another colleague what to believe as a matter of faith.

But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me."

whole thing is here: http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/cfm/record.cfm?id=236760

[EC]

14. good speech

but I can just see Bushy smirking the whole time...This has got to stop.

And as far as Frist goes, he knows exactly what he is doing...he knows this isn't a fight against faith, or that liberals don't hate the faithful, he's purposely saying it to incite the passions of the weirdo's of the country...the over-pious, self-righteous fringe...Can we have him arrested if violence comes out of this, for inciting violence?

[HockeyMom]

3. People of WHICH faith?

Only THEIR preferred faith? Wiccans have just as much right in this country to their faith as Fundie Christians.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I so despise that evil, twisted, lying fuck

I wish he'd retire.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Hey Mo! How come you're not down here for Jazz Fest?

:hi:

Crawfish pie, alligator sausage, jambalaya, jazz, blues... there's always next weekend! :9

[mopaul]

6. i'm playing at jazz louisiana kitchen tonight, in k.c.

so those mud bugs look familiar. only they don't get that big here

[spanone]

7. This senatorial son-of-a-bitch is from my state. He's bad news.

Rich boy. Fortune is from Hospital Corporation of America. A family business. The VERY company that has paid the largest fines to our fine federal government for Medicaid/Medicare fraud. Read all about him. Long but revealing.

http://www.metropulse.com/dir_zine/dir_2003/1328/t_cover.html

[Zynx]

10. Save for 2008 - that's a good attack ad.

Along with the cat torture.

[patcox2]

8. Not against them, just think they're insane, delusional, weak.

Irrational, superstitious, mentally ill, in need of a crutch because they can't handle reality.

But we're not against them.

Noone would ever get that idea by reading your posts, mopaul.

Thou dost protest too much, in this one instance, I think.

[mopaul]

9. sorry

[Jacobin]

11. Tell 'em what Barry Goldwater said:

However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'

Barry Goldwater

[Pallas180]

12. Has it occurred to anybody that wrapping themselves inthe flag

became a cliche' so now they're wrapping themselves in religion, and of course if you say you're against religion you must be for the devil.,,,,,

Actually I'm against doctors who cheat on medicare, who sell out to the drug companies, and screw Americans.

Does that sound like anybody named Frist?


On Edit - by the way I just called his office in Memphis, and you guys might try calling any of his four offices and told them:

I would never vote for him for President, that he and the Family Research Council and those people are trying to turn this country int
a one religion country and that flies in the face of the constitution,that religion has no place in American politics
that he and the house of representatives are destroying this country and the constitution, that the lobbyists and the drug companies are running the country, that he has no business appearing with the Family Research Council about judges, that there is meant to be balance and checks and 3 separate branches of government and they are destroying that, that THOSE people are crazy and destroying this country....AND I DONT LIKE IT, and that although I'm not from Memphis, I'm an American and he still represents me.

[Pallas180]

13. Frist's contact numbers - use em

http://frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenat...


Office Information

Washington, D.C.
Office of Senator Bill Frist, M.D.
509 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-3344
202-228-1264 (fax)
Nashville
28 White Bridge Road
Suite 211
Nashville, TN 37205
615-352-941
615-352-9985 (fax)

Chattanooga
James Building
735 Broad Street, Suite 701
Chattanooga, TN 37402
423-756-2757
423-756-5313 (fax)
Jackson
200 East Main Street
Suite 111
Jackson, TN 38301
731-424-9655
731-424-8322 (fax)

Kingsport/Tri-Cities
10368 Wallace Alley Street
Suite 7
Kingsport, TN 37663
423-323-1252
423-323-0358 (fax)
Knoxville
800 Market Street
Suite 121
Knoxville, TN 37902
865-637-4180
865-637-9886 (fax)

Memphis
5100 Poplar Avenue
Suite 514
Memphis, TN 38137
901-683-1910
901-683-3610 (fax)

[Pallas180]

15. Tal;k is cheap. Here's your senators phone #s- revoke Family

Research Council non profit religious status - mixing politics with
religion.....they'll love Frist for that

[Cleita]

16. Apparently his own church, the Presbyterians, have

denounced his position as not being their's. I just heard it on AAR.

[OneBlueSky]

17. what liberals believe is a hell of a lot closer to what Jesus taught . . .

than the pseudo-Christian dogma espoused by the likes of Frist solely for perceived political gain . . .

Jesus would not like what these people are doing in his name . . . not one little bit . . .