Words Or Turds: Hillary Clinton on Criminalizing Jesus |
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 by Helen Jupiter, February 1, 2008 |
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Forget the Farm Workers Endorsement: you want J-dog on your sideIn describing her stance on immigration policy during Thursday's Democratic presidential debate, Senator Hillary Clinton dropped a subtly sly Jesus-bomb. Was the namedrop heartfelt and coincidental, or was it simply good planning? Half of those surveyed in a recent poll commissioned by the American Bible Society said they wouldn't vote for a candidate
who doesn't believe in God, and a whopping 78% percent of those questioned said they like their candidates citing Scripture. So, you tell me: Is Clinton spouting words or turds?
When the House of Representatives passed the most mean-spirited provision that said, if you were to give any help whatsoever to someone here illegally, you would commit a crime, I stood up and said that would have criminalized the Good Samaritan and Jesus Christ himself.
I have been on record on this against this kind of demagoguery, this mean-spiritedness.
And, you know, it is something that I take very personally, because I have not only worked on behalf of immigrants; I have been working to make conditions better for many years.
Previously: Mike Huckabee on Gay Marriage, Fried Squirrels
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Helen Jupiter is a writer based in Los Angeles. She regularly contributes to Gridskipper, More... |
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ChevyNazi
Just More BS from Hitlary
She'll do any thing to get elected.lol
ChevyNazi
I can't wait too when she
I can't wait too when she goes campaigning in the south and starts talking twangy.lol
Peace Love Unity
Politics
lol... she's definitely witty!
I say politicians will say almost anything to get to what they want.
But I would love to hear her talk twangy....hehehe
mistah charley, ph.d.
senator clinton misremembers the parable and its message
the man whom the good samaritan helped had not committed any crime - he had, in fact, been the victim of a crime
those who passed him by without helping him - the priest and the levite - may have done so for "legalistic" reasons - e.g. they would have been ritually contaminated by contact with an apparently dead body - but this is not explicitly stated in the story
the good samaritan of the story extended much-needed help - and behaved in the way a good neighbor would behave despite his (the helper's) "outsider" status - but he did not do so in a way that violated any civil or religious laws
the story, word for word with an accompanying commentary, can be read at
http://www.carm.org/parables/parablesamaritan.htm
a detailed exegesis from a wesleyan-arminian (methodist) perspective - and i believe senator clinton has a methodist background - can be found at
http://wesley.nnu.edu/Biblical_Studies/parables/Lk10_25-37.htm
my conclusion - once again, senator clinton displays her contempt for the truth and for her listeners
[as for me, i received unitarian and methodist religious training as a child, and now regularly attend catholic services to accompany my wife]
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