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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.....Rather than reconsidering the issue, wondering whether the pastor has good reasons to protect life before birth, Perez suggested that religion is to blame for the stupidity of the electorate, especially the pro-life crowd.
Perez has consistently drawn a line in the sandon abortion, and polling suggests he may be alienating many self-identified Democrats from their party. Many Democrats agree with certain time limits on abortion, but the DNC chair has proven uncompromising.
"Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health," DNC Chair Tom Perez said in a statement last April. "That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state."
If Democrats take a hard pro-abortion stance and close themselves off from the possibility that life begins at conception — when an individual human being with unique DNA enters the world — they will likely become more hostile to religious conservatives. Even secular Americans often believe life begins at conception, however. It is a matter of science, as well as faith.... https://pjmedia.com/video/dnc-chair-tom-perez-blasts-religion-people-buy-it/
Anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows who and what he's talking about. Without the gullible sheep, their tax exempt status, and the same tired wedge issues that appear prior to every election, the GOtP would be extinct by now. I have zero respect for born again scum that espouse unamerican and unconstitutional ideologies while using that same Constitution as a shield to propagate the distribution of their twisted ideals. Main stream religious organizations also suffer from the religious/political activists that hide behind the general label of Christianity. I'll never recognize any fringe religious sects that claim to be Christian for the sole benefit of it's tax exempt status and the cash cow it represents for the exclusive use by the right. The same unamerican trash that whines and cries about being forced to pay for things that are counter to their fragile beliefs seem to have no problem with everyone else picking up the tax burden they create with their tax exemptions as bogus charities. I will continue to mock their claims of religious persecution and oppose any need of additional religious freedom legislation unless that legislation includes means testing for eligibility of their tax exemptions. Their support of the teavangelical political savior and demigod in the white house is a glaring testament of the adherence to their bullshit faith and values. Who was it that said money is the root of all evil so long ago? Women's freedom of choice for decisions involving what healthcare is best for them is the law. If non-secular scum attempt to illegally impose their beliefs on others, they can expect opposition in kind. IMO the karmic invoice of watching some thumpers leaving Planned Parenthood clinics feet first on the TV news is way overdue.
You just can't let women make their own healthcare decisions, can you? I don't believe what you do. Period. And I'm not an atheist. You need to stop trying to force your interpretation of your religious dictates. Live them. And let women live theirs. Your entire spiel on when life begins means nothing to me or most people. After what evangelicals have embraced with Trump, they can stick their beliefs up their own asses, thank you very much, and leave the rest of us alone with ours.
the inalienable rights crowd believes that free will belongs to them exclusively.
Exactly... They think freedom of religion means their religion ONLY.
In the long run, does anybody actually have free will?
Still bitter that evangelical Christians deprived Hillary Clinton of the Presidency? I’m still happy she’s not our President.
Everyone who ever lived, is living now, and will ever live has had, has, will have free will.
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
The mayor and Trump are both right. Trumps support among Hispanic Americans has been growing since he defeated Hillary in 2016.
Hispanics know the difference between legal immigrants which most of them are and illegals who increasingly are becoming dependent upon government upon arrival and commit crimes while here. They also know illegals compete with them for jobs and depress wage rates. Lastly the economic opportunities for Hispanics is at an all time high with Trump and their unemployment at an all time low.
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.
The link to your source confirms the seeded article view and account. “Tom Perez laments the pulpit religious messages”
Yeah, funny how yours changes the dialogue.
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
No values at all are better than the so called values that Hillary claimed for herself.
keep on talking. the political sky is getting darker, the patter of subpoenas is getting louder, the hailstorm of indictments is about to begin, and the tornado that levels fascist-ville is forming above in the clouds. Americans are just around the corner from discovering the shiny gilded values of the self righteous are nothing more than shit wrapped in gold colored tin foil, just like their beloved administration.
How many times has Hillary been married? Once.
Trump? 3 times, and he has cheated on them all.
Values? Hillary has them....trump? I doubt that piece of shit can even SPELL "values".
1) Freedom of speech.
2) Yet another, "I am the victim" article.
Actually it’s Perez pretending his party to be the victim of religion.
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.
I have never understood that fallacy either.
And your point here is.....?
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 not listed as questionable by the jerk wad idiot site above so deal with it. I Like that this site is right on that borderline.
Huh?
How is mixed factual reporting NOT questionable? You have got to be kidding me.
The borderline between "far right" and, "extreme"?
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Does it say questionable source or does it say right bias? Believe me, I get that his ratings are totally arbitrary and capricious and tinged with vindictiveness if anyone goes public against his personal rating of them. He listed the seeded article site as right bias and that he said what he did that you quoted is why it’s now a favorite of mine here.
Exactly! At least in the mind of the reviewer there.
The bottom line is that the article was carried by many different sources and they all said virtually the same thing.
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.
That is the bottom line. There are people of right and left, Republican and Democrat in church and taking political sides in campaigns during elections does divide and distracts from the message of the kingdom that really matters that is presently not of this world.