Torgerson launches campaign on 9/11, calls Ellison “radical Islamist”
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 10:41 am
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Lynne Torgerson launched her second campaign against Rep. Keith Ellison on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 this weekend at her home in Golden Valley, calling for a return to “Judeo-Christian values” and labeling Ellison as a “radical Islamist” who wants to do away with the U.S. Constitution.
Torgerson, who has the backing of Tea Party Nation, also took shots at fellow Republican challenger Chris Fields for his divorce and support for LGBT rights.
Torgerson is running for the Republican nomination in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Earlier this year, she told Tea Party Nation that she would be running—the group backed her previous run for office. Torgerson raised $60,000 in the last cycle—nearly as much as the Republican in the race. She self-financed $25,000 of that money and she was the only Minnesota-based donor to her campaign; all other contributions are from out of state. She ran as an unaffiliated independent.
One of Torgerson’s main issues is an opposition to civil rights for gay people. She said homosexuality goes against “natural law.”
“Two men cannot make a baby. Two women cannot make a baby. Further, all cultures which have evidenced moral decline have fallen,” she wrote. “Homosexuality has traditionally been seen as evidence of moral decline. Thus, homosexuality is not good for America, nor any culture.”
Torgerson told Golden Valley Patch at her 9/11 campaign launch that she was “entering the race to stand for the moral, Judeo-Christian values the country was founded upon. That’s our foundation, and if we don’t have our foundation in place, then the economy and things aren’t going to be doing so well.”
She said it was important to her to support the U.S. Constitution.
“I still need to expose Keith Ellison for being a radical Islamist. I do believe that he says he does eventually want to replace the U.S. Constitution with sharia law,” Torgerson said.
Torgerson told Patch she recently asked Ellison whether he believed the Constitution or “Sharia law” was supreme.
“He evaded the question,” she said. “He refuses to state that the U.S. Constitution should be supreme over Sharia law, which is to me quite surprising. He talked about how the Constitution has been amended and it appears that he would amend the Constitution to incorporate Sharia law.”
Torgerson’s question was caught on video posted by her campaign. In the exchange, Ellison said there are no communities in the United States that have tried to install Sharia law.
“I believe that the United States Constitution which has been amended well over 25 times is the bedrock of American law,” Ellison said. “This whole movement to try to ban Sharia, this bill has been introduced in over 22 states, in my view, this is a very thin-disguised effort at religious persecution of people who are Muslim.”
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Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 10:52 am
Stupid is as Stupid does. Did this woman not learn anything during her failed 2010 run? Apparently not!
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 10:56 am
Funny, I thought their was a Judeo Christian law saying it was a sin to bear false witness on your neighbor….
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 11:00 am
Any chance of passing a Constitutional amendment against that hair??
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 11:17 am
I thought Kate Gosslin had a different haircut? ..and shoudl she be home with her 8 kids? …dontay love these asshole GOP nitwits….escared of sharia law – while Imposing thier Christian Sharia law.
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 12:15 pm
Torgerson was recently asked whether she believed the Constitution or “Biblical revelation” was supreme.
“She evaded the question.” “She refuses to state that the U.S. Constitution should be supreme over the holy Bible, which is to me quite surprising.”
Exactly how stupid is this woman? She’s against one religion’s being involved in government but all for another religion running the government. Let’s hope there are debates so Ellison can point out the stupidity.
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 12:22 pm
Why do these ultra-right wingnuts believe this nation was founded on judeo-christian non-sense? IT NEVER WAS!
Could this Torgerson please go back to middle school and re-take history. This nation was founded on religious FREEDOM.
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 12:29 pm
If some one is such an extreme baker of the US constitution that they would pass legislation to ban sharia law from ever affecting it, wouldn’t they then be forced to pass legislation to ban the 10 commandments from ever affecting the constitution as well??
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 1:13 pm
“Two men cannot make a baby. Two women cannot make a baby.”
And your point being what? Haven’t we been through this argument like maybe a million times and every sane person comes to the same conclusion each time: It proves nothing. It means nothing.
Yes, I agree. Make a law or something about that hair.
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 2:05 pm
Could one of the wingers that comment here give me a solid definition of what separates “Judeo-Christian” values from Budhist, Muslim, or even atheist views? Specifically, what values are Judeo-Christian that are not found in any other culture?
Thanks so much,
Alec
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 5:30 pm
Kevin, that’s how the lunatics keep advancing. They yammer on about the exact same points again and again and again until we get tired of rebutting it for the zillionth time, at which point they declare victory.
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 6:05 pm
Well Lynne Torgerson is a “radical Dominionist” who wants to do away with the U.S. Constitution.
Soft Dominionists are Christian nationalists. They believe that Biblically-defined immorality and sin breed chaos and anarchy. They fear that America’s greatness as God’s chosen land has been undermined by liberal secular humanists, feminists, and homosexuals. Purists want litmus tests for issues of abortion, tolerance of gays and lesbians, and prayer in schools. Their vision has elements of theocracy, but they stop short of calling for supplanting the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Hard Dominionists believe all of this, but they want the United States to be a Christian theocracy. For them the Constitution and Bill of Rights are merely addendums to Old Testament Biblical law. They claim that Christian men with specific theological beliefs are ordained by God to run society. Christians and others who do not accept their theological beliefs would be second-class citizens. This sector includes Christian Reconstructionists, but it has a growing number of adherents in the leadership of the Christian Right.
Comment posted September 13, 2011 @ 10:10 pm
Kevin, to paraphrase Mark Twain, “I’d rather battle a total scoundrel than an idiot. At least a scoundrel takes a day off once in awhile.”
Comment posted September 14, 2011 @ 7:37 am
Huh, another bigot on the Tea Party ticket with a nasty mean streak. The folks who vote these extremist clowns into office are equally responsible.
Comment posted September 14, 2011 @ 8:39 am
Another crazy slithering from under a rock.
Comment posted September 14, 2011 @ 10:39 am
Lynne’s brand of crazy might fly in the 6th…but I guarantee it won’t in the 5th!! I will do everything in my power to see to that!
Comment posted September 15, 2011 @ 1:04 am
The constitution is the most profane. and thanks for sharing this info with us.
Comment posted September 15, 2011 @ 1:35 am
For a minute there, I thought that was a dead possum on her head.
Doesn’t the bible say something about women not cutting their hair short?
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