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January 21st, 2012
09:53 PM ET
Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivalsBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com (CNN) - If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice-married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday’s South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race. Evangelical Christians made up two-thirds of the South Carolina electorate on Saturday, and Gingrich took 44% of their votes, according to CNN’s exit poll. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who rode evangelical support to victory in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses earlier this month, each got 21% of the evangelical vote in South Carolina. Gingrich got roughly the same share of the South Carolina evangelical vote as Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher, did four years ago. The former House speaker campaigned vigorously among evangelicals in the Palmetto State, talking about “values” issues and speaking to and holding conference calls with hundreds of evangelical pastors. “Whatever his personal values may be, he certainly talked effectively and cogently to the kinds of issues that evangelicals care about,” said John Green, an expert in religion and politics at the University of Akron. “Gingrich had a very intensive campaign mentioning social issues, less as policy matter than as test of the broader ideology of candidates,” Green said. An accusation last week from Gingrich’s second wife that he asked for an “open marriage” raised questions about how much so-called “values voters” would support him. “To a degree, it will give [evangelical voters] pause, but there’s a much more insatiable appetite to defeat President Obama,” said David Brody, chief political correspondent at CBN News at the Christian Broadcasting Network. “Gingrich has never claimed to be a patron saint,” Brody said. “People have known for years about Gingrich’s marriage issues. In a way, his well-known history of troubled marriage works for him here.” Last weekend, a group of conservative Christian leaders – evangelicals, mostly – reached consensus around supporting Santorum, but many experts said the development came to late to seriously influence the race. |
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When we feel we know better than our founding fathers lets take a moment and find guidance in their words. we will never let your witchcraft rule our great country Here are a few Thomas Jefferson quotes:
1. History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose. Thomas Jefferson
2. "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man"- Thomas
Jefferson
3. "The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs." -Thomas Jefferson
4. "It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet the one is not three, and the three are not one- Thomas Jefferson
5. "And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be clas.sed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors."- Thomas Jefferson
6. "There is not one redeeming feature in our supersti.tion of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."- Thomas Jefferson
Prayer changes things
The joy of prayer in the morning
Is awakening to the presence of God
And beginning the day
In the full council of God
Enjoy the Word of God in the morning
Prayer changes things
no it doesn't, and cannot
Let's go with that. It sounds so nice. Almost a narcotic one might say.
Which gad are you talking about that's so good? The god who told followers to kill millions of people during the inquisition and other periods of man's history ? Hmmm...interesting point you make.
@Jt .. well, Karl Marx did say it was the opiate of the masses, didn't he?
demons deathly afraid of prayer
Who is a demon, and who is afraid of prayer?
If prayer changes things then pray for some very worthwhile causes.
1. Pray to restore amputees limbs,
2. Pray to end poverty,
3. Pray to end worldwide abuse of women,
4. Pray to end child abuse,
5. Many other very worthwhile causes.
Let me know when you verifiable statistical results.
Prayer most CERTAINLY does NOT work; I have prayed every day for your moronic posts about prayer to stop, but here you still are with you mindless, inane drivel !
prater in conflict with Gods grace are not answered. you cannot use God to endorse your evil intent
prayer in conflict with Gods grace are not answered. you cannot use God to endorse your evil intent
Well, me, I wished upon a star that @Atheism is not... would continue to post her drivel, so that we can continue to counter it. New folks come on here all the time and can see for themselves right off what's up.
Lo, and Behold, my wishes keep coming true 🙂
Once upon a time when a president was elected both parties worked to solve this countries problems.Now we have a bunch of morans who decided their only goal was to get rid of this president.That is from day one so don't buy their lies.S ick of Republican lies!
ok I just noticed "Atheism is not healthy" posting her(?)crap again ... Prayer doesn't and cannot work, and that is by your OWN beliefs and doctrines.
a demon tormented and deathly afraid of prayer
@ Bringoutyourdead ... to whom are you referring?
A demon tormented and deathly afraid of prayer.
Bigotry and hypocrisy are the clear winner. And S. Carolina will forever be smeared.
Are we looking for leaders that only talk the good values? Are we republicans a bunch on hypocrites? Do we praise the serial adulterer as our champion of “Family Values”? Aren’t Christians suppose to be ye doers of the word, and not hearers (or speakers) only? Who has been the 43 year doer of “Family Values” and who has committed adultery twice (that we know of)? Give me a president that lives his values, not just talks them.
Why? Republicans say they want a President who acts like a CEO – ruthless with the budget, hard of heart. The whole "family values" thing is just a smoke screen and a way to discriminate against Gays. They are "pro-life" until a child is born, at which time the infant becomes unimportant. It's a party of contradictions.and duplicity. Terrified on their own shadow, looking for a "daddy" to keep them safe. Just a bunch of angry, old white men. I think that about sums it up.
The worst candidate of the worst party. Poor leadership is the curse of God on a nation. Would say the same for Santorum.
Tell you what ... if this 'god' of yours is so upset as to levy a curse upon us, then 'god' is the most petty, vidictive, arrogant s.ob. ever. Take your ballot, write-in 'god' on it. See if 'it' wins, and then do it in the general election come November. Then all will see who or what takes the oath of office on Jan 20, 2013.
When a nation turns to sin it is a self fulfilling prophecy that poor leadership will result. God will not provide good leadership to a nation of sin and mockers. God will leave that nation to what it deserves. Cause and effect.
How can you claim cause and effect when the 'cause' has NEVER, in human history, been verified?
Should God wins on a ballot and takes oath in office, atheists would definitely screams, FAKE!!!!
Nothing could convince a stubborn and insolent creatures like atheists.
*scream
Review all nations from recorded history, loss of moral direction, loss of leadership, loss of nation. Decline and fall of the Roman Empire etc. etc. Your ignorance is surpassed only by your disbelief or is it that your disbelief is your ignorance?
a demon afraid and tormented by history
@ just sayin ... ok, list for me the stable, non-corrupt theocratic governments on the planet today, or in history.
The strength of a nation is in the believing peoples, not in the nation itself. A nations identification with God is its peoples identification with God. God has seen fit to allow the USA to be founded on and live according to Biblical directives, from it's founding until just recently.It is the peoples turning from God that is the problem. A mere 50 years ago your bs would not have been tolerated.
@No Monkeys No Atheists
*win, *take
Just proves that GOP claims to be the "family values" party are lies...
This just confirms that the GOP is full of fake christians.
Well....Gingrich is living up to his telling them what they want to hear. Too bad they are swallowing it. Everyone may have known about his marriages for years but that doesn't mean all of us accept his behavior as presidential material. Don't judge him? Of course not...but his past is factored in when it comes to analyzing his character traits.
I always knew South Carolinians were a bunch of ignorant, prejudiced red-necked hypocrites (remember who started the Civil War), and their vote for the Grinch proves it...perhaps we should not have allowed them back into the Union..
Callista looks like she needs an interview with Hugh Hefner – I'm sure she could get an actual Job – immediately ! I'm positive he would hire her !
...so am i right to say that these evangelicals are pushing for a christian-sharia here? no matter what substance that their candidate is? i can just imagine if any other religion do what they are doing, they would be up in arms...
They might be able to push for it, but good luck getting it through the House and Senate. The President does NOT make the laws, and then there's that little club called the Supreme Court. I think they might have something to say about ANY laws that have a religious base. I guess the rednecks in South Ca-ka-lackee don't know how gov't works.
evangelicals will compromise their christian values by electing a lying, white, philandering time bomb as long as it gets the black secret muslim from kenya out of office for a second term. obama sucks btw, dont change the fact about evangelicals
evangelicals will compromise their christian values by electing a lying, white, philandering time bomb as long as it gets the black secret muslim from kenya out of office for a second term. obama sucks btw, dont change the fact about evangelicals
It appears that the true Evangelicals are a bunch of hypocrites, but this is not surprising. I just wish many folks could see through this bunch of so called "Christians".
Newt! Newt! He's our man, if he can't do it.....oh, never mind.....
They're going straight to hell.
BOOBIES!!!! BOOBIES!!!! BOOBIES!!!!! BUT NO BLACK LADY ONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so the "family values" crowd is ok with a serial adulterer only if that person is White Straight and a Republican amazing..
And a protestant. The idea that 21% of evangelicals voted for a Mormon is startling. Romney should be praised for that feat.
JJ maybe people are starting to figure out humans don't judge. its up to a god of there understanding when you die we all find out wheather he is real or not. rember when your pointing your finger at another human being there are 3 pointing back at you
BINGO! you hit the nail right on the head...these folks sure will be running into a problem soon when they start becoming the "minority" in this nation. they will soon realize that their tactics of "majority" rules will be backfiring on them soon...