Pawlenty to bolster religious right bona fides at Values Voter Summit

Is this the crowd who wants the priviledge of divorce only for married people of opposite sex? Doesn’t like people who’s sexual desires are different than theirs? Promotes abstinence while practicing everything under the sun?

Is this really the base of Mr. Pawlenty’s political philosophy? It would be disappointing if true.

I’ve long suspected Pawlenty just tones down the Christian fundamentalism for the broad electorate, but now he needs to play it up. We can hope he won’t turn out to be a closet creationist and global warming denier.

Pawlenty is a creationist, and he supports doing something about global warming.

Tim Pawlenty has demonstrated his contempt for the Minnesota family. Rather than balance the government budget, he is going to use the money Minnesota was supposed to receive to stimulate it’s economy instead to make up for the shortfall in his budget. This way all of his rich friends will not have to pay their fair share of taxes. This strategy may not have been so contemptible before the George W. Bush economic collapse. The Minnesota budget will be balanced on the backs of the families of the tens of thousands of Minnesotans who have lost their jobs from Target to Denny Hecker to Medtronics.
Pawlenty’s policy is to the right of Dick Cheney, right of Rush Limbaugh Pawlenty has nothing but complete disdain for the average Minnesotan. It is pathetic that such a poor excuse for a leader is mentioned as a possible national candidate.

Since Jesus said “Whatever you have done to the least of these, you have done to me”, I’d like Pawlenty to explain to Jesus how stripping all the programs in order to avoid raising taxes on the well-off is what Jesus had in mind. Oh well, Governor, you won’t explain it to us, but you will explain it one day……………..good luck with that.

[...] Tim Pawlenty.  Bowing down before the Religious Right.  And getting out of dodge before the going gets real tough.  And keeping Franken out of the [...]

“Dogma voters” is the more fitting label. “Values voters” is a label invented by people who like to think of themselves as championing good human values. What many of them are pushing actually is dogma. “Values” are “the principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations.” Cambridge Dictionary of American English. “Dogma” is “a fixed, esp. religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts.” Id. The two, we can only hope, overlap to some extent, but they are hardly the same. Some of what religious fundamentalists hold up as values others find plainly wrongheaded and even immoral. Labels count. Those pushing the “values voters” label hope it will help them pass off their dogma as values. If they want to push their dogma, that’s their right. But “dogma voters” they are, and that’s what I’ll call them.

Master Pawlenty is full of Dogma! we could smell it when he spoke Hate in a church in Albert Lee, MN. 2 years ago.