It seems that with each and every passing election, the Republicans being elected to Congress are becoming more and more conservative. One is about as likely to get drunk from drinking water as they are to find a moderate Republican either in or running for Congress.
Georgia Representative Paul Broun decided to further prove that hypothesis by saying the following in a speech he gave at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman's Banquet last month:
"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior. You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I've found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. What I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbooks, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason as your congressman I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that."
Seriously? This guy is going to claim that he makes his votes with the Bible as his guide? A book that was written between 2,500 and 4,000 years ago (approximately)? This man's voting guide is an ancient book, which he didn't write, was written in a time when he wasn't alive and of which there are numerous interpretations. What Bible is this guy reading anyway? He voted to repeal the healthcare reform bill, because in the Bible, Jesus really hated to see people in good health and adamantly spoke out against a healthcare mandate in the book of Acts. Broun voted "nay" to repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," because in the book of Romans, Jesus went on and on about gays negatively impacting military cohesion. Broun voted "nay" on the "DREAM Act," because the 11th Commandment states, "Thou shalt not be born in the United States from an illegal immigrant's vagina."
Using this guy's logic, if I ever get into office, I will vote according to The Beatles. Sure, I didn't write the songs, wasn't around during their time, yet will interpret the music as I please and when a reporter asks why I voted the way I did on a particular bill, with an expression across my face that shouts delusion, I can confidently state, "I voted 'Yea,' because it's what John Lennon would have wanted."
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/rep-paul-broun-r-ga-evolution-big-bang-lies-straight-from-the-pit-of-hell.php
http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/70001/paul-broun#.UHRXixXA_tk
Georgia Representative Paul Broun decided to further prove that hypothesis by saying the following in a speech he gave at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman's Banquet last month:
"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior. You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I've found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. What I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbooks, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason as your congressman I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that."
Seriously? This guy is going to claim that he makes his votes with the Bible as his guide? A book that was written between 2,500 and 4,000 years ago (approximately)? This man's voting guide is an ancient book, which he didn't write, was written in a time when he wasn't alive and of which there are numerous interpretations. What Bible is this guy reading anyway? He voted to repeal the healthcare reform bill, because in the Bible, Jesus really hated to see people in good health and adamantly spoke out against a healthcare mandate in the book of Acts. Broun voted "nay" to repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," because in the book of Romans, Jesus went on and on about gays negatively impacting military cohesion. Broun voted "nay" on the "DREAM Act," because the 11th Commandment states, "Thou shalt not be born in the United States from an illegal immigrant's vagina."
Using this guy's logic, if I ever get into office, I will vote according to The Beatles. Sure, I didn't write the songs, wasn't around during their time, yet will interpret the music as I please and when a reporter asks why I voted the way I did on a particular bill, with an expression across my face that shouts delusion, I can confidently state, "I voted 'Yea,' because it's what John Lennon would have wanted."
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/rep-paul-broun-r-ga-evolution-big-bang-lies-straight-from-the-pit-of-hell.php
http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/70001/paul-broun#.UHRXixXA_tk
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