By Olivia Nuzzi
At a prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning, Rand Paul practiced pandering. The senator from Kentucky will announce that he is running for president in less than two weeks, and it seems the pressure to be all things to all people is resulting in the breakdown of his political brand, with the latest example being his newly articulated position on marriage.
He conceded to the evangelical crowd, which included Dr. Jerry Johnson, CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters, that there is a "moral crisis in our country" and more specifically, "a moral crisis that allows people to think that there would be some sort of other marriage" in addition to heterosexual, or "traditional," marriage.
To solve the crisis, Paul called for a religious revival and lost himself.
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"We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform,'" Paul said, adding that Washington has a responsibility to help, too. "There is a role for us trying to figure out a thing like marriage." After all, he said, "The First Amendment says keep government out of religion, not religion out of government."
ReplyDeleteThis is pure theocratic pablum. One prominent feature of old fashioned tent revivals were fire and brimstone preachers instilling fear into the crowd with threats of 'turn or burn.' Rand Paul implies a similar point with his "reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform" line. This reminds me of when Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blamed 9/11 on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other 'sins' which allegedly offended God.
The majority of Evangelicals seem to forget that Jesus told them the two greatest commandments were to love God and to love their neighbor as their selves. Those words alone should cause an Evangelical to utterly reject everything about the state.
When Rand Paul proclaims he is for liberty, it is liberty by his own definition based upon his convictions, not yours nor anyone else.
Rand is nothing but another mindless Fundy.
ReplyDelete"This reminds me of when Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blamed 9/11 on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other 'sins' which allegedly offended God."
LOL. Yeah I remember that. I think maybe The Imperial City's foreign policy might just have a teensy weensy bit to do with it? Is it any wonder there are so many atheists these days?
I'm not convinced foreign policy can cause an office furnishings fire to collapse a steel framed building.
ReplyDelete"the breakdown of his political brand"
ReplyDeleteHere I was thinking that Randy's political brand was off-the-shelf GOP. Apparently, some people think he's something other than a typical republican politician.