{"id":8054,"date":"2012-06-16T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2012-06-16T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T18:36:45","slug":"romney-at-hate-and-bondage-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/16\/romney-at-hate-and-bondage-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney at Hate and Bondage Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The official name of the event Switch Hit Mitt will be attending is the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, but faith cannot be expressed as hatred and there is no freedom in the lock-step forced dogma of pseudo-Christian legalism.&#160; Please do not think that I am disrespecting Christians.&#160; I am not.&#160; Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians do not follow the teaching or example of Christ and have nothing in common with authentic Christianity.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"republican_jesus\" alt=\"republican_jesus\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/republican_jesus.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"554\" \/>The presumptive GOP presidential nominee, those who waged a hard-fought primary against him and those hoping to be tapped as his running mate will grace the same stage at Washington\u2019s Renaissance Hotel this week for the Faith and Freedom Coalition\u2019s conference and strategy briefing. (Pseudo-Christians delinked)<\/p>\n<p>The social conservative group, headed by former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, kicks off its annual summit Thursday afternoon with luncheon speeches by two potential Mitt Romney running mates, Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). <\/p>\n<p>The gathering is one of two major social conservative conferences considered campaign-trail \u201cmust-stops\u201d for GOP White House contenders; the other is the Family Research Council\u2019s Values Voter Summit (Pseudo-Christians delinked), which takes place in Washington in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Friday and Saturday bring speeches by several of Romney\u2019s former opponents, including former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), businessman Herman Cain and former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). <\/p>\n<p>Romney himself addresses the gathering on Saturday morning&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/post\/mitt-romney-marco-rubio-rick-santorum-among-faith-and-freedom-speakers-this-week\/2012\/06\/14\/gJQAmbzZcV_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Martin Bashir and Frank Schaeffer take on this pseudo-Christian hypocrisy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbcc7618\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=47834976^0^292526&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbcc7618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=47834976^0^292526&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I guess the bottom line is that pseudo-Christians hatred of Obama, outweighs their hatred of Mormons.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official name of the event Switch Hit Mitt will be attending is the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, but faith cannot be expressed as hatred and there is no freedom in the lock-step forced dogma of pseudo-Christian legalism.&#160; 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