Angle: Social Security, Welfare And Legal Divorce Are Nation's 'Wicked Ways'

[deminks]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/angle-social-security-welfare-and-legal-divorce-are-nations-wicked-ways-audio.php?ref=fpb

Oh boy. After months and months of insisting that she really doesn't oppose Social Security -- despite her past statements about wanting to phase it out -- now a tape has surfaced of Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle decrying the program as an example of society's "wicked ways." And this was just two and a half weeks ago.

As Politico reports, an audio recording was uploaded to the Democratic National Committee's Accountability Project site, of Angle speaking at a church on October 10. During her speech, Angle offered a confession for America's sins -- going beyond just the standard religious conservative issues of abortion, but also the legislation of divorce, and various social welfare programs.

(snip)

I confess that we are a nation who has killed our children. I confess that we are a nation who has walked away from the family and allowed divorce, even among our ranks. We have walked away from the biblical definition of marriage: one man, one woman, the two become one flesh.

We as a nation have been walking away from our constitutional freedom and relying on government instead to take care of the widow and the orphan. Isn't that what he says, true religion and undefiled before God is that you care for the widow and the orphan? Isn't that the poor and needy among us? And yet we're saying, 'Well, the government, we have all these programs now. Aid for Families with Dependent Children and Medicare and Social Security.' That's fine, but isn't it we that should be thinking about this, isn't it us that should be caring in our community for those that the Lord has called us to? Didn't he say you honor him, you love him if you've cared for these the least among you? So we do have a lot of wicked ways that we can confess as a church, and I think that's what he's calling us to now.

(end snip) Audio at the link

People, the thuglicans don't want to just privatize Social Security, they want to do away with it entirely.

BTW, what does Newtie Gingrich think of the wicked divorce meme? KKKarl Rove?

[AsahinaKimi]

1. I am convinced

that she is insane. Something has eaten away at her brain years ago. Republicans used to call themselves compassionate conservatives, (which was a joke) but Tea Party people have no compassion, its not even listed in their dictionary. They will be jack booted thugs.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I KNEW IT! Abortion wasn't enough. Birth control wasn't enough.

Gay marriage wasn't enough.

Divorce. Do voters really want to be held against their will, prisoners within a marriage, death-til-they-part?

[Dappleganger]

5. Ask Newt Gingrich.

I hear he's an expert on that topic.

:sarcasm:

[City Lights]

3. She's 51 cards shy of a full deck.

:crazy:

[PA Democrat]

4. Oh my, the irony of condemning divorce in a state infamous for

Las Vegas drive-through marriage chapels and quickie divorces!

:rofl:

[Lyric]

6. Welfare doesn't stop Christians from practicing charity.

It just doesn't allow them to REFUSE help to people they deem "unworthy".

For them, it's not about free will vs. compulsion, although they try to paint it that way. It's really about the fact that they don't WANT to help poor people unless they can also lecture them, proselytize them, and humiliate them. And if a poor person dares to speak up against this behavior? They want the right to PUNISH by withholding aid.

They want to starve innocent children in order to force their parents to bow to the authority of the church.

They're sickos, plain and simple.

[PA Democrat]

7. +1000

[lib2DaBone]

8. Oh brother.. back to the future.. back to the inquisition with Sharon Angle...