(12-12-2024, 05:57 AM)HiloJulie Wrote: ""A lifetime commitment" that "you can't just go in and out of" for everyone except the author of the letter, van Duyn, and all of the other "defectors". Oh the irony."
Irony, maybe. But has Gabbard ever once denounced, resigned, said it's an at arm's length relationship, was due to her parents' involvement or in any way actually defected?
NO, she has not.
At any event, the next few weeks and months will be interesting that's for sure!
Especially for Tulsi!
You have a good point. There is a strong pattern of Hawaii politicians continuing to embrace controversial and even un-American gurus:
In a campaign appearance earlier this month, Sen. Obama said, "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial." He said Rev. Wright "is like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with," telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family.
Rev. Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, "The Audacity of Hope."
An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright's sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans.
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said in a 2003 sermon. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Democrati...id=4443788&page=1
I wish you all the best.