Keillor: Born-agains should not have right to vote

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Keillor: Born-agains should not have right to vote
Popular radio host says Christians' citizenship is really in heaven

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Posted: November 15, 2004
5:00 p.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Speaking in the aftermath of the presidential election, Democrat radio host Garrison Keillor says he is on a quest to take away the right of born-again Christians to vote, saying their citizenship is actually in heaven, not the United States.

Keillor, host of the popular National Public Radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," made the comments during a speech at Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and during his radio monologue the Saturday after the election.

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[HomeschoolrsRUs]

And Garrison Keillor should not have the right to preach, err sorry, SPEAK about such political issues at the "celebration of the opening of University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital."

What a hypocrite.

[RayChuang]

The Post-Election Stress Trauma syndrome from the Left is just getting way too out of hand. :rolleyes:

[Riverboat]

He actually makes a few good points

My feeling is that born-again people are citizens of heaven, that is where there [sic] citizenship is. . . Certainly that is the destination, and the True Country, no?


I am a museum-quality Democrat. . . Last night I spent my time crouched in a fetal position, rolling around and moaning in the dark. Who would doubt this? I'd pay good money to capture this precious moment on videotape, my friends. And make others pay better money to see it. I'm a Republican AND a capitalist. But I repeat myself. . . . Keillor told the audience: "If born-again Christians are allowed to vote in this country, then why not Canadians?" Clearly he never read the letters of Saint Paul, a true Christian and a genuine Roman citizen who could appeal to Roman law for protection.

[Estragon]

God bless Garrison Keillor!!

As long as numbskulls like him are out there representing the Democrats, the Republicans will continue to win elections with increasing frequency and majorities.

I remember he always said of Lake Woebegone, that all the children are above average. Too bad the same can't be said of the adults!

:tongue:

[DoctorDoom]

Liberals shouldn't have the right to leave home without adult supervision, and should definitely be kept away from pointy things.

Listening to that idiot is an infallible cure for insomnia. He is boring beyond the capacity to express it verbally.

[Blowback]

Garrison Keillor's still alive?

[tacitus]

What is Garrison Keillor?

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[Patriot Heart]

I never liked his radio show. I always felt it was extremely pompous and condescending towards those that live in rural northern climes (I grew up in one). His voice positively nauseates me. My folks loved him so I had to listen ALOT.
Patriot Heart

[DoctorDoom]

http://www.commencement.harvard.edu/images/keillor.jpg

He looks like he sounds.

[Beowulf]

Born-Agains! What a joke!

[tacitus]

However this fool would allow illegals the right to vote and deny an American citizen the right to vote. Didn't this idiot ever hear of the Constitution? Wait, the left doens't like the Constitution except when it benefits their loonie causes.

He looks like Moore, cleaned up. :duh:

[Wyatt_Junker]

Garrison Keillor says he is on a quest to take away the right of born-again Christians to vote, saying their citizenship is actually in heaven, not the United States.
And conversely, are we then to extrapolate that a lefty's citizenship is stuck firmly in a fiery middle earth? Re dual citizenship, if all lefties have zip codes in Hell, should they not vote either?

Is his name really Garrison? He looks it.

[Warlady]

This guy belongs in a rubber room.

[uncommon1]

This is coming from a guy who made his fortune on MY born again tax dollars on PBS and NPR. If he had been forced to go out and compete with comedians, storytellers, or whatever it is that he calls himself, he'd be in line at a soup kitchen. Piss on him.

[ronin9]

Garrison Keillor's still alive?maybe he'll go out for a walk, and poof-vanish!(we should make these people go to canada.)

[Timberwolf]

http://www.commencement.harvard.edu/images/keillor.jpg

"Ooooooooh, SHINEY!!!"

[Kathy29]

There might be enough democrats and independents to make a serious try at disenfranching Christians. Not just born again Christians either.

[Timberwolf]

There might be enough democrats and independents to make a serious try at disenfranching Christians. Not just born again Christians either.Sorry, but I disagree...

1st Amendment of the US Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.Since a Constitutional amendment would have to be initiated in Congress and receive a 75% approval of BOTH Houses AND the signature of the President before being submitted to the States for ratification AND then be so ratified by 75% of the State Legislatures within 7 years, I doubt that it could ever happen. Besides, I think the Bill of Rights is "off limits" for the purposes of amendment.

This is but one MORE reason for strict constructionists to be appointed to the Federal Judiciary...especially to the SCotUS.

[Maggie_T]

I wish Keillor had never been born. He's tedious, too. James likes him and thinks he's funny. I beg to differ.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:moo: Gee, if he combed his hair back, he might resemble this guy...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1965000/images/_1969542_hagee150.jpg

[Blowback]

http://www.commencement.harvard.edu/images/keillor.jpg



It's the love-child of Stephen King and Chris Burke.

[DoctorDoom]

I'd trust John Hagee almost infinitely more than Keillor.

[Samcat]

http://www.commencement.harvard.edu/images/keillor.jpg

He looks like he sounds.
Looks like an inbred Michael Moore to me.

[CaliGirl]

Looks like an inbred Michael Moore to me.
:claps:

[Incident_command]

http://www.commencement.harvard.edu/images/keillor.jpg

Richard Cranium.

[RyteWynger]

Sorry, but I disagree...

Since a Constitutional amendment would have to be initiated in Congress and receive a 75% approval of BOTH Houses AND the signature of the President before being submitted to the States for ratification AND then be so ratified by 75% of the State Legislatures within 7 years, That's not exactly right: http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm#con5



Besides, I think the Bill of Rights is "off limits" for the purposes of amendment.

Sorry, that's wrong, too. The Constitution may amended -- in whole or in part -- by the mechanism provided for in Article V.

[ronin9]

Looks like an inbred Michael Moore to me.yeah!he looks like michael moore-100lbs,and his face is shaved.it really does.:patriot:

[BackFromIraq]

http://www.commencement.harvard.edu/images/keillor.jpg
When Botox goes bad :duh:

[Timberwolf]

Quote:
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Sorry, but I disagree...

Since a Constitutional amendment would have to be initiated in Congress and receive a 75% approval of BOTH Houses AND the signature of the President before being submitted to the States for ratification AND then be so ratified by 75% of the State Legislatures within 7 years,

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That's not exactly right: http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm#con5 I knew that didn't sound quite right...it's two-thirds of both Houses, not three-quarters. My bad...
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Besides, I think the Bill of Rights is "off limits" for the purposes of amendment.



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Sorry, that's wrong, too. The Constitution may amended -- in whole or in part -- by the mechanism provided for in Article V.I think you may need to re-read the 9th and 10th amendments...they effectively put the BoR off-limits.

[RyteWynger]

I think you may need to re-read the 9th and 10th amendments...they effectively put the BoR off-limits.
Not really. Amendments IX and X don't have much of anything to do with amending the Constitution: http://www.constitution.org/billofr_.htm#bor11

There's nothing terribly special about the Bill of Rights: they just happen to be the first ten amendments and they were proposed and ratified as a set. This doesn't render them immune to repeal or modification. Any of them [or all of them] could repealed or modified at any time.

[Samcat]

yeah!he looks like michael moore-100lbs,and his face is shaved.it really does.:patriot:
Now we know their secret......:thumb:

[eyesoftexas]

THE GOOFUS REMINDS ME OF ELTON JOHN!!:boxer:

[DesertFox]

Michael Moore's big brother. I never understood why anyone would willingly listen to this dunce's inane prattlings. I've even tried to read his stuff and it's even more insipid on the printed page.

[Wolfcounsel]

"There's nothing terribly special about the Bill of Rights: they just happen to be the first ten amendments and they were proposed and ratified as a set. This doesn't render them immune to repeal or modification. Any of them [or all of them] could repealed or modified at any time." --RyteWynger


Dumbasses may try to amend the BoR. and if they manage to remove the Second Amendment, they do so at their peril.<!-- / message -->

[TheRealLobo]

And conversely, are we then to extrapolate that a lefty's citizenship is stuck firmly in a fiery middle earth? Re dual citizenship, if all lefties have zip codes in Hell, should they not vote either?

Is his name really Garrison? He looks it.
Doggone it Wyatt. I was thinking the same thing, and thought I ought to look for your reply before I posted mine.:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

[TheRealLobo]

Hey! hillary the dishonorable senatrix from NY stated in another article that she was an evangelical Christian. Now I know that's most likely BS, but let's give her the benefit of the doubt and have her removed from office following this lame*ss' line of logic.

[BackFromIraq]

http://www.commencement.harvard.edu/images/keillor.jpg


He shouldn't have a right to a mid-night snack but he will eat his and everyones' around him.

[DesertFox]

Dude make Steven King look just ugly and Michael Moore sound just stupid.

[Samcat]

THE GOOFUS REMINDS ME OF ELTON JOHN!!:boxer:
Yeah, probably has had one too many anal probes...

[DoctorDoom]

Yeah, probably has had one too many anal probes...And unfortunately for him, none of them were removed.

[DeclinetoState]

Though Keillor's comments about disenfranchising born-again Christians apparently was made in jest, posters on FreeRepublic.com were not amused.

"Replace 'born-again Christians' with 'black people' and Keillor should get a sense of the depths of his bigotry," said on post.


Yeah, but remember how people got upset over Reagan's joke that we were going to blow up the Soviet Union during a mike check? Reagan's joke probably was spontaneous, whereas Keillor's comments "made in jest" were apparently prepared.

Be that as it may, I question the fellow's sanity as well as his judgment.