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[LyricFox]

ROFL...I saw a couple of pieces on this yesterday, but nothing I really wanted to post. Steve Benen from The Washington Monthly and Michael Stickings over on The Reaction have put it in perspective. I think the last time the pagans got noteworthy political mention was from Falwell right after 9/11.

BRING ON THE PAGANS
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_06/018512.php

Newt Gingrich, pagan hypocrite
http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2009/06/newt-gingrich-bullshitting-hypocrite.html

[Marilyn (ABSENTMINDED)]

BRING ON THE PAGANS
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_06/018512.php

Newt Gingrich, pagan hypocrite
http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2009/06/newt-gingrich-bullshitting-hypocrite.html

I do wish that one of the first respondents hadn't said this, though:

Even the Golden Rule comes from the Wiccan Rule of Three.

I hate to meet the republicans' ignorant spokespeople with our own.  I would rather not think the playing field was quite that level.

Absent

[WarHorse]

Is hypocrisy a Republican virtue?

[yewberry]

I do wish that one of the first respondents hadn't said this, though:

I hate to meet the republicans' ignorant spokespeople with our own.  I would rather not think the playing field was quite that level.

Pretty much all the supposed "pagan" responses in both articles were wince-worthy.  And screaming "SILENCE, MORONS" at my monitor isn't helping at all...

Brina

[Perzephone]

ROFL...I saw a couple of pieces on this yesterday, but nothing I really wanted to post. Steve Benen from The Washington Monthly and Michael Stickings over on The Reaction have put it in perspective. I think the last time the pagans got noteworthy political mention was from Falwell right after 9/11.

The comments on that story were some of the best laughs I've had in months.

'I'm sacrificing a goat for the Equinox...'

'Silly Pagan, the Summer Solstice is coming...'

'I was planning ahead'.

I died.

[skyth]

Is hypocrisy a Republican virtue?

Yep, pretty much.

[mlr52]

Yep, pretty much.

I did not know Republicans had virtues.

[LyricFox]

I did not know Republicans had virtues.

****HOST HAT ON***

MLR52,

That's over the line. You're painting with far too broad a brush and only exposing your own ignorance by assuming that all Republicans are the same as the current crop of GOP spokespeople.

Please refrain from those sorts of comments.

LyricFox - Co-hostess of The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum

[Morag]

ROFL...I saw a couple of pieces on this yesterday, but nothing I really wanted to post. Steve Benen from The Washington Monthly and Michael Stickings over on The Reaction have put it in perspective. I think the last time the pagans got noteworthy political mention was from Falwell right after 9/11.

Apparently Gingrich is still sore over that one time that witch turned him into a newt.


What? He got better....

[mlr52]

****HOST HAT ON***

MLR52,

That's over the line. You're painting with far too broad a brush and only exposing your own ignorance by assuming that all Republicans are the same as the current crop of GOP spokespeople.

Please refrain from those sorts of comments.

LyricFox - Co-hostess of The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum

I hear you.

[Figment99]

ROFL...I saw a couple of pieces on this yesterday, but nothing I really wanted to post. Steve Benen from The Washington Monthly and Michael Stickings over on The Reaction have put it in perspective. I think the last time the pagans got noteworthy political mention was from Falwell right after 9/11.

Thanks, I needed a laugh this morning. I usually hear with some political figure makes a fool out of himself, but I miss this one.

[WarHorse]

Apparently Gingrich is still sore over that one time that witch turned him into a newt.


What? He got better....

Oooooh!  I need a wincing emoticon!

[ladywhitewolf]

ROFL...I saw a couple of pieces on this yesterday, but nothing I really wanted to post. Steve Benen from The Washington Monthly and Michael Stickings over on The Reaction have put it in perspective. I think the last time the pagans got noteworthy political mention was from Falwell right after 9/11.

BRING ON THE PAGANS
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_06/018512.php

Newt Gingrich, pagan hypocrite
http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2009/06/newt-gingrich-bullshitting-hypocrite.html

He says surrounded by Paganism like it's a bad thing.  When will people open their minds and do some research?

[RandallS]

He says surrounded by Paganism like it's a bad thing. 

To people in the Religious Right, it IS a bad thing. They seem to be convinced that their God will turn his back on America if everyone here does not believe just like they do. The funny thing is that Newt is Catholic now and Catholics are "Pagan" to most Protestant fundies.

[Starglade]

<shippage> Catholics are "Pagan" to most Protestant fundies.

They don't even have to be fundies. My parents' denomination, Dutch Reformed, is pretty middle-of-the-road--but OMG, Catholics are the closest thing to damned. They both attended an adult catechism class on Roman Catholicism in the late 60's. I still can't get over the amount of dreck they were fed in that class. ::shudder:: I wonder, the book might still be tucked in Mom's dresser drawer. ::makes note to look next time I'm at the house::

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