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Originally Posted by Sabby
People are WAAY too touchy about this. It is no big deal. He probably should have said "brother in the Lord".The host audience knew exactly what he meant; he was identifying with fellow christian believers! BIG DEAL!
I don't get the impression that he created a different standard of treatment for Christians over non-christians, in spite of the howling from jews or muslims. Their protests are really disguised efforts at silencing all mention of Christ in the political arena. The last thing I want my elected officials to do is bow to the politically correct environment. Right on, Gov Bentley!
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People look for acceptance and significance in their lives. It's an entirely human and also a universal phenomena. We will tend to look toward our "leaders" for that acceptance. We seek to have our leaders acknowledge us and our needs. Even if they can't or, in many cases, simply shouldn't satisfy
all of those needs, they are expected to acknowledge our worth and value as human beings.
... and then, along comes a governor who says, "You aren't my brother..."
Of course, the exact context could be parsed down and mitigated to some degree. But what about the responsibility to affirm our shared humanity? This is my complaint. Bentley doesn't harm Muslims and Jews with this statement so much as he harms Republicans. His little sound bite that was greedily offered for a few hearty "Amens" will go through the echo chamber and be used to advance the causes of the radical Left in this country.
Everybody should probably listen to Newt's advice to Sarah Palin in this regard:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/0...-more-careful/
... again, just IMHO. I'm only "some guy on the Internet" & etc.
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