{"id":15053,"date":"2015-04-14T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15053"},"modified":"2015-04-14T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:21:33","slug":"republicans-on-parade4142015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/republicans-on-parade4142015\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade–4\/14\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the sixty-eighth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is RNC Member Tamara Scott. She is so honored for the Republican way in which she addresses people with different religious beliefs.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0414Scott\"Last year, the Religious Right largely celebrated the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway<\/a>, in which the court ruled that municipalities can open meetings with sectarian prayers as long as minority faiths aren\u2019t excluded and attendance isn\u2019t mandatory.<\/p>\n

But the protections for minority religions don\u2019t seem to have completely sunk in for everybody in the movement, as was made clear last week at a Republican presidential forum hosted by the influential Iowa conservative group The Family Leader. As we noted earlier, the message at the forum centered on claims<\/a> that conservative Christians are losing religious liberty in America, but that didn\u2019t stop The Family Leader President Bob Vander Plaats from warning that a Wiccan prayer at the Iowa statehouse that morning might cause God to withdraw His blessing from America. <\/a><\/p>\n

Tamara Scott, an Iowa member of the Republican National Committee<\/a> [GOP delinked] who is also a lobbyist for The Family Leader, struck a similar note<\/a> in her remarks to the forum, saying that the Wiccan prayer and the invocation delivered by a Muslim imam the previous day showed the need to teach Christian-nation history in public schools.<\/p>\n

Scott joked that she had prayed for a storm to greet the Wiccan woman that morning, before telling the audience that the non-Christian prayers at the statehouse showed that \u201cwhen we\u2019re not willing to defend our God in the public square, we shouldn\u2019t be surprised when others try to replace Him.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Right Wing Watch<\/a>><\/p>\n

Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n