Here is the sixty-eighth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is RNC Member Tamara Scott. She is so honored for the Republican way in which she addresses people with different religious beliefs.
Last year, the Religious Right largely celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway, in which the court ruled that municipalities can open meetings with sectarian prayers as long as minority faiths aren’t excluded and attendance isn’t mandatory.
But the protections for minority religions don’t 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 that conservative Christians are losing religious liberty in America, but that didn’t 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.
Tamara Scott, an Iowa member of the Republican National Committee [GOP delinked] who is also a lobbyist for The Family Leader, struck a similar note 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.
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 “when we’re not willing to defend our God in the public square, we shouldn’t be surprised when others try to replace Him.”…
Inserted from <Right Wing Watch>
Barf Bag Alert!!
As an authentic Christian, I welcome and honor your beliefs, no matter what they are (or aren’t), with one exception. I will not honor intolerance to others’ beliefs. This women exemplifies that intolerance with her Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian bigotry.
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Not to mention that if your God(dess) needs YOU to defend him(her), then he(she) is pretty puny. About as strong as the carved ones that worshipers used to put face down in a drawer or closet to punish them for not answering prayers (answering "No" to prayers). They really must think God is some kind of coin-operated machine.
Excellently and pithily put!
Amen!
Makes one sorta wish we still had the belief that was present in part of Biblical history that no one knows God's name and thus can never say it or lay claim to it…
Amen!!
(Maybe it's sexist, but I think if Tamara Scott ever decided to sue her hairdresser for malpractice, she'd have a damn strong case.)
Hair and clothing remarks do tend to be sexist – of course you can always throw in a remark about Donald Trump's combover to helpo equalize it. But to me it's always the eyes that are scary.
Not sexist – just good taste!
Her hair looks like she crawled out of bed and only fixed what she could see in the mirror, face on.
What do you get if you cross Donald Trump's hair-do with Rand Paul's? I don't know but it would be funny.
You'd get Idiot, Son of Idiot, Grandson of Idiot, Hair of Idiot.
EEk she's scarey
That is the problem with most right wing, fundamentalists, they accept no faith but theirs as legitimate, and try to force everyone else to believe what they do.
Religion is human made, but this little cupcake hasn't figured that out yet, nor do I think she wants to or is capable of same. The so called persecution of pseudo Christianity in the US is nothing but a power and ego issue, not God's power or ego, but that of pseudo Christians.
Nameless, I agree with you when you say "I think if Tamara Scott ever decided to sue her hairdresser for malpractice, she'd have a damn strong case." LMAO! She might even be close to ressembling Christine O'Donnell.
I think her hairdressewr deserves a medal for valor for working in such close proximity with her mouth.
I'm with TC on this one.
Brilliant comments – I agree with them all – God doesn't need anyone to defend the creator of the Universe, let alone a nasty little … person…. like that!
I don't understand her problem with an Imam praying to Allah. It is just another name for God. The Wiccan prayers don't invoke satan. They invoke all that is good of nature. Will they have a problem with a Rabbi praying to Jehova or Yaweh? She cites the Iowa Constitution. I copied the Preamble here so you can read it. It only says Supreme Being, not Christian God.
WE THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF IOWA, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of those blessings, do ordain and establish a free and independent government, by the name of the State of Iowa, the boundaries whereof shall be as follows: …
Thanks all!!