Monoculturalism and the rise of the Tea Party.

You liberals love that wild claims with no evidence thing.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appeared on “The O’Reilly Factor” last week to respond to her recent claims that America is a “Christian Nation.” In the following video, Palin explains that the “unalienable rights” in our Constitution come from God, not mankind. She also asserts that the US government should hearken back to its founding to create laws and policies based upon the Bible’s teachings.

I’m a Christian. We go to the Presbyterian Church. My wife’s a deacon there and we’ve gone there ever since we came to town. I see that Christianity and values is the basis of our society. I think that — in some ways it’s funny, ’cause people talk about laws, and they say, “Well, we have a law against this.” Laws really only work because most of us don’t even need the laws. You know what I mean? Ninety-eight percent of us won’t murder people, won’t steal, won’t break the law, and it helps a society to have that religious underpinning. You still need to have the laws, I mean, you have to have laws, but I think it helps to have a people who believe in law and order and who have a moral compass or a moral basis for their day-to-day life.

Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams, who is opposed to a proposed mosque near Ground Zero, says Muslims worship “the terrorists’ monkey god.” Williams refers to what would be a 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center as a monument to 9/11 terrorists.
“The monument would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists’ monkey-god,” Williams, a frequent guest on CNN, wrote on his blog.

In July, after the ACLU filed suit in Montana arguing that the state needed to provide some measure of domestic partnership benefits to same-sex couples under Montana's constitution, Ravndal took to his Facebook page to spread some anti-gay sentiments. (Check out the photo of this below, courtesy of Michael Hand.)
"Marriage is between a man and a woman period!" Ravndal declared, adding a news article about the ACLU's action and a closing comment of "By giving rights to those otherwise would be a violation of the constitution and my rights."

LANSING– State and national organizations who represent the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are expressing outrage over t-shirts bearing the slogan “Straight Pride” offered for sale at a Saturday rally of the Tea Party Express.
The person selling the t-shirts told the Michigan Messenger that his company — the name of the company could not be made out on the tape due to a loud blast of noise, but it ended in “free media” — was an official sponsor and financial supporter of the Tea Party Express, saying that they typically give 10-15 percent of their sales to the organization. He wore a button saying “official sponsor.”

Rep. Bilbray: You Can Tell Who's Illegal By the Clothes They Wear.
Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA) argued last week that "trained professionals" can identify illegal immigrants based on their clothing. Said Bilbray to "Hardball" host Chris Matthews,
"They will look at the kind of dress you wear, there is different type of attire, there is different type of -- right down to the shoes, right down to the clothes."

People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House -- name is Barack Hussein Obama," he said

Tea Party Nation: Retire Rep. Ellison For Being A Muslim
Eric Lach | October 25, 2010, 6:06PM

This weekend, Tea Party Nation (TPN) sent an email in support of Lynne Torgerson, who is running against Rep. Keith Ellison in Minnesota. In the email, TPN lists the reasons Ellison should be "retired." Among them: "He is the only Muslim member of congress."

You may remember Tea Party Nation. The much-maligned for-profit group organized the first national Tea Party Convention, then tried to plan a second convention in Las Vegas this year, only to face opposition from other Tea Partiers who called the group a fake. This year's convention was then mysteriously canceled.

According to The Maddow Blog, the email sent Saturday night read:

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There are a lot of liberals who need to be retired this year, but there are few I can think of more deserving than Keith Ellison. Ellison is one of the most radical members of congress. He has a ZERO rating from the American Conservative Union. He is the only Muslim member of congress. He supports the Counsel for American Islamic Relations, HAMAS and has helped congress send millions of tax to terrorists in Gaza.

Nice, right? But it gets better. Because, as The Maddow Blog points out, Ellison isn't the only Muslim member of Congress. Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) makes two.

There's no anti-Muslim sentiment in the Republican, whoops, Tea Party?

Tea Party Nation: Retire Rep. Ellison For Being A Muslim
Eric Lach | October 25, 2010, 6:06PM

This weekend, Tea Party Nation (TPN) sent an email in support of Lynne Torgerson, who is running against Rep. Keith Ellison in Minnesota. In the email, TPN lists the reasons Ellison should be "retired." Among them: "He is the only Muslim member of congress."

You may remember Tea Party Nation. The much-maligned for-profit group organized the first national Tea Party Convention, then tried to plan a second convention in Las Vegas this year, only to face opposition from other Tea Partiers who called the group a fake. This year's convention was then mysteriously canceled.

According to The Maddow Blog, the email sent Saturday night read:

Quote:

There are a lot of liberals who need to be retired this year, but there are few I can think of more deserving than Keith Ellison. Ellison is one of the most radical members of congress. He has a ZERO rating from the American Conservative Union. He is the only Muslim member of congress. He supports the Counsel for American Islamic Relations, HAMAS and has helped congress send millions of tax to terrorists in Gaza.

Nice, right? But it gets better. Because, as The Maddow Blog points out, Ellison isn't the only Muslim member of Congress.
Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) makes two.

The overall point here is that we have several Conservatives here on A2K
who have expressed admiration or affiliation with the Tea Party,
all the time going on about small government and financial items like that.
I just want to make it absolutely clear that the movement that
they are affiliating themselves with has a very nasty social element
to it as well that must be addressed by them. You can't join a group
and support a third of their goals and qualities, while pushing the
rest aside as if they didn't exist; your admiration and affiliation
are promoting the careers and ambitions of quite hateful people,
and the so-called Tea Partiers here ought to have the guts to admit that.

Although, upon reflection, in what way is this different than the regular Republican party? Most of you guys have been making friends - politically - with all sorts of bigots and religious nuts in order to get votes, for decades. The big lesson is that for all their rhetoric, the Tea Party is exactly like the Republicans who spawned them; nothing more than a cosmetic name change.

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appeared on “The O’Reilly Factor” last week to respond to her recent claims that America is a “Christian Nation.” In the following video, Palin explains that the “unalienable rights” in our Constitution come from God, not mankind. She also asserts that the US government should hearken back to its founding to create laws and policies based upon the Bible’s teachings.

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Tom Tancredo:

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People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House -- name is Barack Hussein Obama," he said

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I googled all this from remembering all the issues we have hearing about and putting tea party in the google query.