Chicago GOP hopeful: Autism and dementia are God’s punishments for LGBT rights
"One of the Republicans lining up to challenge Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) for her seat representing the 9th District of Illinois told the Chicago Daily Herald that God is “angry” with the United States and has sent scourges to punish the American people. Candidate Susanne Atanus believes that autism and forms of dementia are punishments sent by God because of the growing support for marriage equality in the country and the prevalence of abortion.
“I am a conservative Republican and I believe in God first,” Atanus said at an endorsement session with the Daily Herald on Monday.
God controls the weather, she said, and tornadoes are evidence of his wrath. “God is angry. We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions,” she said. “Same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS. If it’s in our military it will weaken our military. We need to respect God.”
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She is a member of the Assyrian Church of the East. They have services in Syriac, related to
Aramaic and an ancient theology of a somewhat Nestorian bent. Nothing there to suggest her
Ralph Reed views, IMO.
Are we a bifurcated country?
Those who are the kinds of fundamentalists she represents (and there are a lot of them.)
And the rest of us?
Her campaign website is interesting
I'm sure she'll get up to speed on the issues.
She will run in a contested Republican primary:
"Her primary opponent, David Earl Williams III, 30, is decidedly more moderate in his views, but comes with his own liabilities as a candidate. A former girlfriend filed a domestic violence protection order against the Navy veteran.
He is currently fighting a judge’s ruling that he attend anger management classes and undergo a mental health assessment. The charges that he tried to get his former partner fired from her job and kicked out of school by impersonating her online, Williams said, are all a big misunderstanding."
I wonder if her candidacy is God's punishment for our electing a Kenyan Muslim communist?
I need a beer.
Make that a Peroni for me.
BB-Idaho: Branches of Christianity rooted in the Iraq/Syria area are, if anything, more likely to be homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-modern than those rooted in the West. In some ways they're closer to the original Christianity of ancient times (which, remember, came from that area), and they've inevitably absorbed some influences from the predominantly Islamic cultural environment around them.
I'm hopeful that this hopeful has no hope. Unfortunately, being an idiot does not always prevent a person from actually being elected.
Just another example, Dervish, of what sort of people are attracted to today's Gee Oh Pee!
Looks like you got an education from Infidel an BB Idaho.
Couldn't paint this with your broad brush,awe 😛
Anon, I don't know what you're up to, but this post on this candidate is about her, and only her.
Smarter trolls, please.
Anon's just trying to stir up conflict where none exists.
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