DNC Chair Tom Perez Bashes Christianity as Republican Organizing Tool
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Speaking at a function for left wing group Demand Action, the DNC’s chairman complained that Christianity was hurting Democrats because people who go to church tend to be instilled with Republican values.
“And I had someone in northwest Wisconsin tell me: ‘You know what? For most of the people I know, their principle sources of information are Fox News, the NRA newsletter and the pulpit on Sunday.’ And it should come as a surprise to no-one that our message doesn’t penetrate,” Tom Perez said .
How dare those conservative Republicans believe in God! It’s bad for leftist messaging, after all.
“It should come as a surprise to no-one that that person has elevated the issue of courts to the top because that person on the pulpit is saying ‘ignore everything else that this person has done and is doing, we have to focus on one issue of Roe vs. Wade.’ And people buy it. Because that’s their only source,” he continued.
Perez obviously has not stepped into a church in a while. As noted by the few outspokenly pro-life pastors, getting most Christian pastors to discuss, much less denounce abortion is a difficult task. They fear alienating their major donors, board members and their church membership by being too politically controversial, regardless of the Bible’s teachings. In fact, it is one of the toughest issues plaguing Evangelical Christianity today.
“If you haven’t noticed, there’s a blood-filled gap between what the church believes and what the church does,” said a recent Relearn Church article. “Unfortunately, this inconsistency isn’t exclusive to abortion. Because of the church’s lethargy in effecting culture, it has lost much of its moral high ground in just about every politically charged topic of our time.”
Perez’s speech highlights how out of touch Democrats truly are with ordinary Americans. His idea of Christianity is exactly what one would expect of a non-Christian – that everyone who goes to church is brainwashed by conservative talking points. In reality, the Christianity has sadly become much more progressive in America.
Perhaps the reason the Democrats “message doesn’t penetrate” is not because of the church, but because they are out touch with ordinary Americans.
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Dosen't Perez realize how important Christianity is to most Hispanics. They are not all newcomers who can't speak English. Many have been here for generations and don't need to depend on Univision (which probably wouldn't report that speech). I thought the democrats wanted to patronize Hispanics forever and ever?
Don't need to. When trump called them rapists and murderers, he recruited for the dems. Words have consequences.
"In this group of people there's a series of vicious people who are dedicated to other activities, raising the possibility that many of the "undesirables," as he called them, are using drugs. "I have to say there are some good people, [but also] some awful people for our city.".....Mayor Gastélum of Tijuana
Cam't even get your lies straight....
The actual accounting:
He didn't complain, he asked. And the person from NW Wisconsin made that statement.
Most have no values. How can they claim to have values after voting for trump....who has no values?
those are thumper values. ie: hypocritical
1) Freedom of speech.
2) Yet another, "I am the victim" article.
You can use media bias fact check on your articles? So can I...
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I don't understand. What do you think the impact of that bias is on this story? Simply posting one website's opinion about the bias of some other website doesn't make much of a point.
This article is from a known fake news/conspiracy site. I am all for freedom of speech, but this is literally fake news BS.
It's hard for me to listen to Mr. Perez. He has this one tooth that distracts me. It's very annoying. He should get those invisible braces. I mean, he's the face of the party right now and I can't look at his face because of that darn tooth! Someone needs to be his friend and tell him. I nominate BF.
I haven't been in every church in America, but my sense is that most preachers aren't looking to be controversial or even political at all. There's too much risk of driving people away.
Also, it doesn't need to be that one party is Christian and the other not. The differences in the parties aren't even supposed to be about that.