After the publication of the Congressional Budget Office’s reconciliation package score, which concluded that health reform legislation will reduce the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years and by $1.2 trillion over 20 years, Iowa Congressman Steve King and Fox News clown Glenn Beck declared that calling for a Sunday vote on reform legislation is "an affront to God," something Beck insisted "our founders would have never" done "out of respect for" their Heavenly Father, who is apparently unconcerned about the 32 million uninsured Americans that will benefit from this bill.
Rep. King: They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that we have right from God.
Glenn Beck: Steve, you're a religious man?
Rep. King: Yes!
Glenn Beck: Thank you for pointing this out. You couldn’t have said it better. Here is a group of people that have so perverted our faith and our hope and our charity, that is - this is an affront to God! And I honestly, I don’t think anybody is like, "yes, and now what we’ll do is we’ll vote on the Sabbath." But I think it’s absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put the nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday - something our founders would have never, ever, ever done. Out of respect for God.
Think Progress notes that a Republican-controlled Senate convened on Palm Sunday in 2005 to pass a measure urging the federal court to intervene in the religiously-charged Terri Schiavo case. (But you see, that was different. They were doing the Lord's business in order to prolong a woman's suffering.) From HuffPo: Beck himself recently irked various religious leaders when he told listeners earlier this month to "run as fast as you can" from all churches that advocated "social or economic justice" because they were really pushing tenets of Communism and Nazism. (Really, as if the Faux News gasbag and his shrieking Tea Party fan base know the difference between the two.)
Do you suppose Beck and Rep. King observe all of the Sabbath restrictions, or is it just this particular vote that's chafing their self-righteous asses? Are conservatives capable of discussing any political issue without dragging their religious views into the conversation?






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