Day: October 8, 2011

Perry Preacher at Christian Conclave: ‘Mormonism Is a Cult’

Jon Ponder

The first real inkling that the Republican presidential primary race could devolve into a religious infighting between extreme right Christianists and Mormons — a repeat of the lowest moments of the 2008 GOP primaries — surfaced at the Values Voters Summit in Washington on Friday.

The Christian nationalist champion this time, at least for the moment, is Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The Mormons include this year’s perennial frontrunner former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as well as former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman,

In his introduction to Perry at the values conclave, Dr. Robert Jeffress, who preaches at the First Baptist Church in Dallas, wasted no time smearing Romney’s religion:

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It’s Different When It’s My Mob

Trish

I sense a little hypocrisy unbound here. What we’re seeing on the streets of New York is a an expression of democracy. I think I remember how Mr. Cantor described protests of the tea party—I can’t understand how one man’s mob is another man’s democracy.

Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary, responding to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s statement that he is concerned about “the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities [sic] across the country.”