CANDIDATE ACCUSES GRAHAM OF OPPOSING “RELIGIOUS FREEDOM”
U.S. Senate candidate Richard Cash criticized incumbent “Republican” Lindsey Graham (RINO-S.C.) for his support of U.S. President Barack Obama’s liberal Supreme Court justices.
Cash – one of several GOP candidates challenging Graham in the state’s June 10 primary – is an Upstate, S.C. businessman who has centered his campaign around social conservative issues. In a press release issued this week, he slammed Graham for supporting the nominations of liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor – both of whom voted agains “religious freedom” in a recent case on government prayer.
The case – Greece v. Galloway – involves a small New York town which permitted sectarian prayer at its government meetings. By a 5-4 margin, the Court ruled such prayers are permitted – but Kagan and Sotomayor dissented.
“Lindsey Graham was the only Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote for Sotomayor and Kagan, both of who opposed religious liberty in this case,” Cash said in his statement. “Senator Graham states he will continue to vote for justices like these, and neither South Carolina nor the nation can afford additional judicial activists on the Supreme Court.”
Actually we like judicial activists … so long as they are actively striking down laws that erode our individual and economic liberties. That’s the job the Constitution envisioned for them.
Team Cash doesn’t see it that way though …
“If Graham remains in office and Obama or another Democrat president like Hillary Clinton selects another judicial activist as a Supreme Court Justice, then Graham will approve them,” Cash’s communications director Alex Hooper said. “This doesn’t bode well for religious freedom.”
Eh …
We’re no friend of Graham’s (obviously) – and we believe his support for Kagan and Sotomayor was every bit as deplorable as it was politically unwise. In fact sources close to Graham’s campaign tell FITS his backing of liberal judges gives them more heartburn than any other issue.
But in this particular instance, we believe Cash is wrong …
Government shouldn’t be in the prayer business any more than it should be in the marriage business. Irrespective of the sect or denomination, taxpayers should not subsidize chaplains or other religious leaders, nor should their government engage in any sort of faith-based activities (beyond upholding the right of all citizens to worship – or not worship – as they please).
“Religious freedom” means government protects all faiths while embracing none …
Given our limited view of government, we are always on the lookout for things to take off of government’s agenda. That includes any opening prayer.
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Richard who?
Hahahahahahaha …. a rare +2 for you, CNSYD.
He actually won a primary against Rep. Jeff Duncan in the 3rd congressional district but then lost in the run off. Cash and Bright are probably the best known candidates in the upstate. He has never been elected to public office. His business is not too impressive ( ice cream trucks and used car lot ). Apparently had another business career before. Social conservative and reduced foreign involvement (Syria anyhow ).
ice cream trucks and used car lots are a hell of a step up from attorneys.
Fits—“Religious freedom” means government protects all faiths while embracing none.
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That is exactly what the courts 5-4 decision did. It is nonsense to believe that our country’s founders intended for our constitution to be used to forbid prayers at a town council meeting. Towns and cities can make better decisions for their individual communities than nine judges can for the whole country.
I’m tired of one or two individuals believing they have the right to prevent the will of the rest merely because they are offended. There is no right not to be offended, but most cities and towns seek to be inclusive. What ever happened tolerance?
I realize that atheist, Muslims and Satanist are going request to offer “prayers”. Almost exclusively in traditionally Christian counties do these groups have the freedom that they currently enjoy. Christians will show more tolerance of them than than this small minority that seeks the courts interference.
Almost exclusively in traditionally Christian counties do these groups
have the freedom that they currently enjoy. Christians will show more
tolerance of them than than this small minority that seeks the courts
interference.
In current day, perhaps. Not so much historically.
I’ll agree that the SCOTUS decision was fair. As far as I’m concerned, it should be one of two options:
*Every religion is allowed to express itself in a fair manner.
*Religious expression is not present in order to remain neutral.
In my opinion, #2 is preferable simply because it avoids petty arguing, expensive legal battles, sour grapes, potential for persons to show preference, bigoted responses to expression, etc., especially in environments that do not necessitate such expressions. There’s no need to settle disputes in court over whether something is fair, or in breach of the Constitution.
There shouldn’t be a Satanist statue in some public building in Oklahoma, there shouldn’t be any religious anything. Put it in front of your place of worship or something. It’s a waste of space, and trying to appease everyone that wants a statue of whatever is really ridiculous. Whatever god you may have won’t smite you for lack of public statues. Or, if he does, maybe that’s a problem…
Any town or county can choose option #1 or #2. The important point is that it is left to the town or county and not the SCOTUS. I’ll leave it to Oklahoma to solve their issues. Just because of some extreme situation in Oklahoma doesn’t mean that the heavy hand of the SCOTUS is the answer.
The same culturally deviant and perverted souls that seek to destroy the Judeo-Christian foundations this country was based on seek to eliminate the government involvement in prayer yet they seek the government and courts help in aborting 1,000,000 children a year, legalizing drugs to poison our children and government sanctioned and the perversion of gay marriage.
Hypocrites.You people only want to destroy this country like Obama cause you believe we are an evil country. Go to hell liberal socialists.We aint’t gonna let you!
the Judeo-Christian foundations this country was based on
lol…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli
You people only want to destroy this country like Obama cause you believe we are an evil country.
Yup, you got us. And we would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
Go to hell liberal socialists.
I’ve always been told by Christians that it isn’t Christian to wish Hell on anyone. The fact that you have done just that illustrates your lack of understanding of what Hell is, as well as a lack of understanding in Christian teachings as a whole.
Way to represent your faith, my good sir. Have a wonderful, not-burning-in-Hell day.
Fuck you.FITS may cater to you Christ hating SOB’s and I could care less.You are going to Hell for your blasphemous statements and denying Jesus Christ.
I am glad FITS provides a forum for American hating,abortion loving,cock sucking queers like you and others that get up everyday and spread your hatred and socialist views in a forum that 10 people probably read.
Hopefully that will keep you,euwe and Deo from hanging out around the school yards and parks during the day.
G.O.P. Rivals Question Rubio’s Ignorance Credentials
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — After claiming on Sunday that human activity does not cause climate change, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) suddenly found his ignorance credentials under attack by potential rivals for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination.
“Now that Marco’s thinking of running for President, he doesn’t believe in climate change,” said Texas Governor Rick Perry. “To those of us with long track records of ignorance on this issue, he seems a little late to the rodeo.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) echoed Gov. Perry’s criticism, calling Rubio a “dummy-come-lately” on climate change.
“At the end of the day, I have faith that Republican voters can tell the difference between someone who’s truly uninformed and someone who’s just faking it,” he said. “These comments by Marco don’t pass the smell test.”
By Sunday evening, a defensive Sen. Rubio was pushing back against the attacks, telling reporters, “Any questions about the authenticity of my ignorance are deeply offensive to me.”
“My refusal to accept the scientific research on climate change is a matter of public record,” he said. “On this issue and many others my ignorance should take a back seat to no one’s.”
New 700 page National Climate Assessment states that the sky is falling.
O MY GOD!! Chicken Little was right! (I never doubted)
So let’s get it right….”bible thumpers” (wink wink) don’t believe in global warming b/c they think god is in charge of earth and would never let mankind destroy what he made…in six days mind you?
Is that about right?
Au contraire. I believe man can destroy the earth. I don’t believe man can save it.
Scientific research has shown that people almost always believe that others are biased but they are not. It is their arrogance. It is very difficult to remove bias from science when it depends on models. I don’t believe it is a conspiracy, but “Climate change” perfectly matches the agenda of scientist, liberals and the main stream media.
We have been burning fossil fuels over 160 years. This has coincided with the greatest period of human progress man has ever witnessed. I would go so far as to say that emancipation and women’s rights would never have occurred without fossil fuels. It was our affluence that made these and many other advances in human rights possible. If their is any dark age in our future, it will be when we run out of fossil fuels.
We have some how survived “Silent Spring”, Nuclear Winter”, the energy crisis, Y2K and every other supposed crisis. Scientists are notorious in their inability to predict the future.
Funny how “science” has taken us to the moon, cured diseases, mapped our genome, flown us around the world in comfort, increased life span just to name a few.
Do you take back that science as well?
Science progresses by a very crooked path. Some times they go down a dead end path and have to reverse course. Scientists just can’t accurately predict the future. Your prediction is based on what you currently know, not on what will be discovered.
Scientists have been wrong about cholesterol in the diet and a new debate about saturated fat that was thought to be settled 40 years ago is raging. I remember the dire predictions about the population explosion, increased famines and energy shortages. The dates have passed without predictions coming to pass.
Intelligence Briefing: Code Name: Panty Waist Sugar Daddy
Where was Sen Graham during the Benghazi attacks?
US Senate Candidate Mace’s challenger Graham says:
“If you asked me if the president of the United States is a socialist, I would say no. I think he’s an American liberal, that’s what I think he is. You know, Ted Kennedy was an American liberal, but we found ways to work together.”
Really? Care to elaborate? Citizens for Tax Justice rated Ted at 100% for supporting progressive taxation’s income redistribution.
“Socialism hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn’t have me to run it.” – Ted Kennedy
US Senate Candidate Mace’s challenger Graham says:
“I think the planet is heating up. I think CO2 emissions are damaging the environment and this dependence on foreign oil is a natural disaster in the making. Let’s do something about it. I’d like to solve a problem, and if it’s on President Obama’s watch, it doesn’t bother me one bit if it makes the country better off.”
It bothers us, Lindsey, that pollutants from China and radiation from Japan on Obama’s watch is killing the West Coast and the Pacific Ocean. Need we remind you, Lindsey, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is killing the Gulf Stream and sea life as well. On your watch, Lindsey, did these disasters take root by your inaction and you have the nerve to bare back with Kerry and Obama to back climate change that has been debunked?
US Senate Candidate Mace’s challenger Graham says:
At a Graham town hall at Greenville April 2008, activist Harry Kimball of “RINO HUNT” protested by constructing a display that depicted Graham, as well as moderates like Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), being flushed down a toilet:
KIMBALL: This is for every RINO who has failed to represent us. […] [the toilet represents] flushing them, flushing them.
One attendee of the event asked the senator, “when are you going to announce that you are switching parties?” The question drew loud applause from the crowd. Graham defended himself, and denounced the influence of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) on the Republican party:
GRAHAM: I’m going to grow this party, I’m not going to let it get [inaudible], I’m not going to let it be hijacked by Ron Paul. […] I’m going to find people in Maine, Delaware, Illinois, other places–
AUDIENCE: Move there!
GRAHAM: That can win as Republicans, and I’m going to go up, and we’re going to move this party, and this country forward, and if you don’t like it, you can leave.
US Senate Candidate Mace’s challenger Graham says:
“politics is politics in the sense that I know that Republicans sit down and think, ‘ok, we’ve got some power now. Let’s make sure that we let the whole country know the Republican party is not just a party of short white guys.”
Really? What?
“What I want to tell the country is that Republicans very much do sit down and think about political picks and appointments in a political sense to try to show that we’re a party that looks at all Americans and wants to give an opportunity. And that’s just life. And that’s not a bad thing.”
Wait, what? Whatever happened to qualifications?
You are spot on, Lindsey. Come the June 10, 2014 open South Carolina primary where Democrats can cross over party lines to vote, we will send the short white guy from Seneca back to Seneca and hire a woman who has more moxy, more class, more gumption to stand fast for South Carolina! I present US Senate Candidate Mace. Oh, happy Mother’s Day Nancy!!!
Cash has NOTHING but social issues. That’s all he talks about.
US Senate Candidate Mace’s challenger Graham says:
“I have been to enough college campuses to know if you are 30 or younger this climate issue is not a debate. It’s a value. These young people grew up with recycling and a sensitivity to the environment — and the world will be better off for it. They are not brainwashed. … From a Republican point of view, we should buy into it and embrace it and not belittle them. You can have a genuine debate about the science of climate change, but when you say that those who believe it are buying a hoax and are wacky people you are putting at risk your party’s future with younger people.”
Huh? What? Not brainwashed?
I double dog dare you, Lindsey, to have a town hall in South Congaree so you can discuss climate change with some over thirty types who can eat your lunch on any topic. I know, let’s have a spelling contest!
US Senate Candidate Mace’s challenger Graham says:
“I may introduce a constitutional amendment that changes the rules if you have a child here,” Graham said during an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “Birthright citizenship I think is a mistake, that we should change our Constitution and say if you come here illegally and you have a child, that child’s automatically not a citizen”
What? You mean vote it out in the Senate? Maybe an Executive Order? Huh?
How about a real conservative’s response to Lindsey’s idiotic lunacy ragarding the US Constitution. I present Alan Keyes:
KEYES: The 14th Amendment is not something that one should play with lightly. I noticed, finally, that Lindsey Graham, used the term — as people have carelessly done over the years — referring to the 14th Amendment as something that has to do with birthright citizenship, and that we should get rid of birthright citizenship. Now let me see, if birthright citizenship is not a birthright, then it must be a grant of the government. And if it is a grant of the government, then it could be curtailed in all the ways that fascists and totalitarians always want to.
I think we ought to be real careful before we adopt a view we want to say that citizenship is not a reflection of our unalienable rights. It is not a grant of government, but arises from a set of actual conditions, starting with the rule of God, that constrain government to respect the rights of the people, and therefore the rights that involve the claim of citizenship. Those are really deep, serious issues, and when the amendment was written, and when it was first referred to in the Slaughterhouse cases, the Supreme Court declared that they knew they were touching on something that was absolutely fundamental. And I think before we play games with it in any way, we need to remember that ourselves.
US Senate Candidate Mace’s challenger Graham says:
GRAHAM: This is an opportunity to make sure the government is changing its spending ways. I will not vote for the debt ceiling increase until I see a plan in place that will deal with our long-term debt obligations starting with Social Security, a real bipartisan effort to make sure that Social Security stays solvent, adjusting the age, looking at means-tests for benefits. […]
How about cutting the unsustainable employment benefits begot to non-military federal workers? How about switching all federal healthcare plans to Obamacare according to the law? Oh that’s right, congress voted to exclude themselves yet you want to screw up our measly social security eligibility after we paid into it since the age if 16?
US Senate Candidate Mace’s challenger Graham says:
GRAHAM: This is an opportunity to make sure the government is changing its spending ways. I will not vote for the debt ceiling increase until I see a plan in place that will deal with our long-term debt obligations starting with Social Security, a real bipartisan effort to make sure that Social Security stays solvent, adjusting the age, looking at means-tests for benefits. […]
How about cutting the unsustainable employment benefits begot to non-military federal workers? How about switching all federal healthcare plans to Obamacare according to the law? Oh that’s right, congress voted to exclude themselves yet you want to screw up our measly social security eligibility after we paid into it since the age if 16?
Senator Graham si a true southern statesman of the highest caliber. He’s leadership and commitment to all his constituents, nye, all southern gentler men, cannot be questioned. We should be proud to re-elect such a strong and forceful conservative. And he’s such a good dresser. Does he shop at Berlin’s in Charleston?
Donor to Lindsey Graham accused of funneling money to senator’s campaign.
US Senate Candidate Mace’s challenger Graham says:
GRAHAM: No one in World War II would have tolerated the idea that someone who collaborated with a Nazi, trying to kill us on our own soil, would have any other disposition than to be considered an enemy of the American people. Now my question for this body is, do you think Al Qaeda is an organization that doesn’t present that same kind of threat?
Which Al Qaeda is that, Lindsey? The Al Qaeda rebels in Syria our CIA is sending arms to?
So a Senator Richard Cash would have voted against Sotomayor and Kagan ,both of whom would have been confirmed anyway?
Big Damn deal!
This is all you got Dick?
A real conservative, the U.S. Representative for the 48th District of California Dana
Rohrabacher sets the record straight:
“Well, first of all, let me note that I’d like to uh, say that — I mean I like Lindsey Graham and John McCain as someone who is — has, was our party’s nominee,” “But I wish people in the media would quit focusing on … Lindsey and John McCain as spokespersons for the party, because they’re not. There’s a lot of resentment in the party that these two guys are presenting themselves as spokesmen for the Republicans and they are not spokesmen for the Republicans, they’re spokesmen for themselves — as we all have that right.”
You got that right, Rep Roherbacher. Lindsey does not speak for the Republican Party, he does not speak for South Carolina, and he does not speak for US Senate Candidate Mace.
Vote for Mace June 10, 2014 to STFU Lindsey as our elected embarrassment..
Mace? Who is that?
liberals and republicans are the same thing… haven’t you heard?
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