Louisiana Gov. Jindal’s prayer rally handouts blame gays and abortion for Hurricane Katrina

[IDemo]

Source: Raw Story

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) plans to kick off his presidential candidacy in January with a stadium-sized prayer rally in Baton Rouge.

Right Wing Watch reported that materials being distributed ahead of the rally blame LGBT acceptance and legal abortion for natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the devastating tornado system that leveled the town of Joplin, Missouri.

The prayer rally — titled “The Response-Louisiana: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis” — is scheduled for Jan. 24 and is closely modeled on a similar rally that kicked off Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)’s own unsuccessful bid for the presidency.

As RWW’s Miranda Blue noted, Jindal’s rally features many of the same far-right evangelical luminaries as Perry’s rally, and even seems to be recycling some of the publicity and advanced promotional materials from Perry’s rally.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/louisiana-gov-jindals-prayer-rally-handouts-blame-gays-and-abortion-for-hurricane-katrina/

[Scuba]

1. The "party of stupid".

[Trillo]

4. The party of liars.

[asjr]

5. Jindal is the star of stupid.

[RKP5637]

2. These people are fucken off their rockers. There are no longer excuses for them, they are wackos! nt

[Thinkingabout]

3. Then we could say gays and abortions must have caused him to be stupid.

I know the RW loves to hear this crap but someone needs to call him out on this, right I his face in his meetings. Perhaps Reparative therapy can help his mind to heal.

[IDemo]

6. 'Stupid' isn't seen as a handicap by these people n/t

[Thinkingabout]

9. Another GOP presidential candidate, Perry has said it isnt an IQ test to run for president,

Especially for Republicans.

[RKP5637]

7. I wonder when the witch burnings will start. Unfit to be a governor! n/t

[bullwinkle428]

8. REBRANDING!!1!1!

Holy shit (no pun intended), there is so much fail based on just this short description, that I don't even know where to begin tearing it apart.

[turbinetree]

10. Party of Dumb

These people of the self-righteousness are beyond stupid, they are just plain dumb.
I wonder if its going to held in the Mercedes Dome and how much does it cost, will Jimmy Swaggert be there
And he is trying and will try to blame gays, and the weather for this countries ills, really.
How about oil companies, coal companies, and the sooth sayers of hypocrisy and discrimination, with the spewing of there hate and fear thrown into the mix.
How about the privatization of the public school for greed in good old Louisiana

[RKP5637]

11. One would think a governor would be above sh** like this. It's appalling that

fools like this rise into office in a supposedly civilized country. This, is like something out of the dark ages.

[Shrike47]

12. The party of the willfully and proudly ignorant.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. This, and Perry's Christian Dominionist revival in Houston, are for all the po folks that can't make

it to the National Prayer Breakfast held in Washington DC every February. They all have the same agenda: stealth theocracy.

[Shemp Howard]

14. It all depends on who is handing out the handouts.

Who handed out the handouts? And did Jindal know about the handouts ahead of time? If he knew, or if the group was officially affiliated with him, then Jindal should be censured.

But if the group was simply one of many that appeared at the rally, then Jindal is less at fault, and perhaps not at fault at all.

Suppose for example I decide to hold a civic event. And a couple of the attendees start handing out hate literature, without my knowledge. Perhaps I don't even know those people. Then I'm guilty of not vetting attendees better, but not much more than that.

On the other hand, if I knew about the hate literature ahead of time - and I mean really knew - then it's a different story.

[OldRedneck]

16. Bullshit

Stop making excuses for these sonsabitches.

Obviously you didn't grow up in the South in a bible-thumping family.

These ignorant assholes believe that shit; they inculcate it into their children.

Jindal knows exactly WTF is going on. It's planned.

[Shemp Howard]

18. You could very well be right.

But I wanted to see some linkage here between the handouts and Jindal.

In a way, I suppose I'm looking at a bigger issue. Consider the Occupy Wall Street situation. OWS was filled with good people trying to do what they thought was right. But in that mass there were a few troublemakers, a few people who wanted destruction for destruction's sake.

The right pointed at those few troublemakers, and used them to unfairly smear the entire OWS movement. As a fair-minded person, that really bothered me. And it's worth noting that perhaps the same sort of thing is happening here.

As an aside, I'm not equating Jindal to OWS. Jindal is in many ways a hapless fool. OWS was noble, and in some respects it represented the last best hope for reform in this country.

[OldRedneck]

15. Read:

"Made In Texas: George W. Bush And The Southern Takeover Of American Politics"

"Most Southern Place on Earth"

"Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II"

"Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America"

Bottom line: This nation is fucked. It's over. The great experiment in individual freedom and representative self-government is over and the fascists have won. At age 70, I'm glad I won't be here to see the end result but I cry for my grandsons.

[Sunlei]

20. link to the documentary, Slavery by Another Name. More we face our history the better we will become

http://video.pbs.org/video/2176766758/

[mikehiggins]

27. I hate to say how much I agree with OldRedneck

even to the part of being sad over what my grandkids will have to go through. There never was any sort of guarantee that a democratic republic would survive, not since Greece and Rome. We've had a good run but now its over. It may take awhile for things to get so bad that people start building guillotines in their back yards but that day is coming.

What a shame but, as Vonnegut said, "...so it goes."

[Deadbeat Republicans]

17. Stupid sheeple.

N/T

[Sunlei]

19. lol another republican eyes the free war chest of donations bonanza

now he can write some crappy online book, give it away free to 'campaign supporters' and gain millions of almost tax free money. Maybe he will make a crappy movie like Palin

Abuse religions tax free existence too!

[Owl]

21. Unbelievable idiocy!

[McCamy Taylor]

22. Naw. I blame the Hurricanes sold on Bourbon street , the lap dances (and handjobs) sold by strippers

and the women who show off their tits during Mardis Gras.

Gotta love it when the Gov. of La. gets all moral.

[dhill926]

23. this is some really sick shit….

Theocracy anyone?

[n2doc]

24. Piyush can go suck a lemon

No amount of pandering to the mouth breathers is going to get his sorry ass into the Oval Office.

[beac]

25. "closely modeled on a similar rally that kicked off Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s own unsuccessful bid

Good plan, Bobby! May you have the same level of success.

IQ test indeed.

[frylock]

26. why does god target the bible belt when unleashing his punishment for teh gay?

shouldn't he be focusing his vengeful endeavors on places like San Francisco and NYC?

[obnoxiousdrunk]

28. Unlike Perry this

guy is a Rhode scholar ...WTF ?

[SummerSnow]

29. he's not even hiding that he is playing to the far-right evangelicals ...lol

lets call it, " god is mad with us rally" and he sent me to fix things

Next week we'll see videos and images of him and his family going to church.rofl

[muntrv]

30. Shut up Piyush!