Comments on: Bachmann to join Pawlenty at controversial religious right rally

By: Michael J. O'Connor

Michael J. O'Connor — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:38:57 +0000

The question is are we going to adhere to a political ethos that says that anyone can do anything they want at anytime and call that good and moral or are we going to acknowledge that there are some standards that although they restrain certain behavior are in the long run good for society. In the last fifty years we as a society have been following after the former and as a result we have seen an exponential increase in homicides, suicides, out of wedlock births and fatherless children, divorce and breakdown of the nuclear family, drug addiction, obesity, aids, etc. Take aids for instance. It can be prevented by restraining out of marriage sex, illicit drug usage, tatoos and piercings. Curiously enough all of these factors have long since been proscribed in the Bible as being unhealthy and against good standards. It is time that we grow up, stop acting like self-centered children and fight for what is best for our future as a people. Anything else is suicide.

By: Gov. Tim Pawlenty Gives Out Phone Sex Number During Radio Show, Brings New Meaning To Tea Bagging « DUSTYTRICE.COM

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:31:47 +0000

[...] is outrageously funny once you realize that T-Paw is speaking at the Values Voters Summit with Michele Bachmann later this evening. Hilarious! How’s Guv T-Bag going to live this one [...]

By: rmath

rmath — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:14:14 +0000

This is right where Bachmann and Pawlenty belong, standing shoulder to shoulder with bigots and haters.

By: Bud Smith

Bud Smith — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:05:06 +0000

Values voters?All they value is their political careers,and the lucrative benefits that come with it.They especially value their single payer health care plan that the tax paying public provides them!!

By: Doug Indeap

Doug Indeap — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:02:39 +0000

“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.