"An American Heresy" - Al Gore - Re: Filibuster Challenge & Zealots

[WillyT]

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Our founders understood that the way you protect and defend people of faith is by preventing any one sect from dominating. Most people of faith I know in both parties have been getting a belly-full of this extremist push to cloak their political agenda in religiosity and mix up their version of religion with their version of right-wing politics and force it on everyone else.

They should learn that religious faith is a precious freedom and not a tool to divide and conquer.

I think it is truly important to expose the fundamental flaw in the arguments of these zealots. The unifying theme now being pushed by this coalition is actually an American heresy -- a highly developed political philosophy that is fundamentally at odds with the founding principles of the United States of America.

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Link: http://www.algore-08.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=224&Itemid=78

I love this phrase. Calling these freaks un-American and Heretics at the same time. Pure Genius!

Thank You President Gore!!!

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Can ya tell I finally got to watch the speech, LOL???

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. GREAT speech!

As usual, he was FANTASTIC! I watched him this morning at 5:00 and started my day off with a smile. He was awesome!

[WillyT]

2. Yep...He Was Fantastic !!!

I wonder about calling some of the idiot RWers around me American Heretics though...

Mainly cause I don't think most of them know what a heretic is.

Or they'd think that I think they're in some sorta Heavy Metal band or something.

:shrug:

Hell.... for that matter, I don't think they know what America is either!!!

:shrug::shrug:

[ochazuke]

3. I love this man

In the past few years, he has really found his voice. Why isn't Al Gore president of the whole f****** UNIVERSE!?

To see the speech, search for "al gore" at http://www.c-span.org/

At the moment, it appears at the top of the results:

Fmr. VP Al Gore at MoveOn PAC
Former Vice President Al Gore speaks about judicial nominations at MoveOn PAC.
4/27/2005: WASHINGTON

[mcscajun]

4. He also referred to my favorite passage from "A Man For All Seasons"

The part he didn't quote is the wrap-up and altogether it's something I cling to as a central point of my own philosophy:

The historic vulnerability of religious zealots to subordinate the importance of the rule of law to their ideological fervor was captured best in words given by the author of "A Man for All Seasons" to Sir Thomas More.

When More's zealous son-in-law proposed that he would cut down any law in England that served as an obstacle to his hot pursuit of the devil, More replied: "And when the last law was cut down and the devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's -- and if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?"

The Senate leaders remind me of More's son-in-law. They are now proposing to cut down a rule that has stood for more than two centuries as a protection for unlimited debate. It has been used for devilish purposes on occasion in American history, but far more frequently, it has been used to protect the right of a minority to make its case.

The line that follows that Gore omitted: "Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

It boggles the mind that the people willing to rip the Senate apart and distort the judiciary don't grasp that concept.

[WillyT]

5. Back @ The PC Kick !!!

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