Rick Perry Compares Gays In Military To Celebrating Christmas. I'm now going to compare divorce to children trick-or-treating...
Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has caused quite the stir in recent days due to a new ad of his. In this add, Perry says the following:
"I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school."
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/12/09/rick-perrys-strong-campaign-ad-gets-the-web-angry-and-laughing/
A classic satire of the ad was displayed on "The Colbert Report" a couple days ago. That can be seen here -
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/403958/december-08-2011/rick-perry-s-pro-christmas-ad
This ad made me a bit speechless. It was reminiscent of the Herman Cain smoking ad, where I couldn't tell if the ad was legitimate or a parody. Honestly, since the ads were indeed genuine, comics didn't have to parody them for the commercials to come across as ridiculously humorous.
I think it's quite the asinine comparison to make between gays being allowed to openly serve in the military and for kids to be able to openly celebrate Christmas and pray in school. One deals with equal rights to a certain segment of the population and this equality entails these men and women going overseas and putting their lives on the line for our country. The other deals with the separation of church and state. I know many Christians and many members of the GOP don't believe in said separation, but it's there. You just have to look. Closer...closer...oh, there it is.
People can openly pray as much as they want outside of school. They can celebrate Christmas to the extreme outside of school. There hasn't been an attempt to add an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning prayer or the celebration of Christmas. I don't know of too many hate crimes that occur on a family whom decorates their yard over the holidays and places up more Christmas lights than Clark Griswald. I don't know of too many people of power (involved in politics and religion) preaching to the public that prayer and/or celebrating Christmas is/are morally wrong and an abomination to God. I don't know of too many American children whom were disowned by their parents for coming forward that they prayed regularly or celebrated Christmas. This was a very stupid statement for Perry to make and he deserves all the backlash he's receiving.
"I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school."
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/12/09/rick-perrys-strong-campaign-ad-gets-the-web-angry-and-laughing/
A classic satire of the ad was displayed on "The Colbert Report" a couple days ago. That can be seen here -
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/403958/december-08-2011/rick-perry-s-pro-christmas-ad
This ad made me a bit speechless. It was reminiscent of the Herman Cain smoking ad, where I couldn't tell if the ad was legitimate or a parody. Honestly, since the ads were indeed genuine, comics didn't have to parody them for the commercials to come across as ridiculously humorous.
I think it's quite the asinine comparison to make between gays being allowed to openly serve in the military and for kids to be able to openly celebrate Christmas and pray in school. One deals with equal rights to a certain segment of the population and this equality entails these men and women going overseas and putting their lives on the line for our country. The other deals with the separation of church and state. I know many Christians and many members of the GOP don't believe in said separation, but it's there. You just have to look. Closer...closer...oh, there it is.
People can openly pray as much as they want outside of school. They can celebrate Christmas to the extreme outside of school. There hasn't been an attempt to add an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning prayer or the celebration of Christmas. I don't know of too many hate crimes that occur on a family whom decorates their yard over the holidays and places up more Christmas lights than Clark Griswald. I don't know of too many people of power (involved in politics and religion) preaching to the public that prayer and/or celebrating Christmas is/are morally wrong and an abomination to God. I don't know of too many American children whom were disowned by their parents for coming forward that they prayed regularly or celebrated Christmas. This was a very stupid statement for Perry to make and he deserves all the backlash he's receiving.
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