On Jan 28, 12:25 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you please find the actual quotation where "Dick Sanctamonius" made
> such a statement for us there Tom? (and by the way, you should really
> break down and buy a dictionary or start trying to utiize spell check......)
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> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gays "Make God Want to Vomit" Says Santorum's New Florida Chair
> > by David Badash on January 23, 2012
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> > in Bigotry Watch,Marriage,News,Politics,Religion
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> > Rick Santorum has found someone even more anti-gay and anti-Islam than
> > he is, so naturally he has installed him as his honorary Chair of his
> > Florida presidential campaign. Rev. O'Neal Dozier, 53, has said gays
> > "make God want to vomit." He is well-known is GOP circles, but was all
> > but washed up until the Tea Party and Rep. Allen West came along. He's
> > connected to the Bush family (Jeb Bush is the former Governor of
> > Florida,) and claims to be "a prayer warrior who faithfully spends
> > time in his own prayer closet and teaches his flock to pray."
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> > Adam Weinstein at Mother Jones has an extensive profile on Rev. Dozier,
> > writing,
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> > Dozier opened his church in 1985 and immediately began preaching a
> > different kind of gospel. "We teach and preach on the cultural
> > issues," he says in a recent video. "We also teach and preach on the
> > war on terror. We teach and preach on the dangers of Islam and Islamic
> > fascism here." He says he was heavily influenced by the work of the
> > Rev. D. James Kennedy, a founding father of the Christian right who
> > started the annual Reclaiming America for Christ political conference
> > at his church complex just down the street in Fort Lauderdale.
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> > Attending functions like Kennedy's helped Dozier build a valuable
> > political Rolodex. As the GOP sought ways to connect with minorities,
> > it took a shine to Dozier, and he was happy to deliver their messages
> > at his pulpit. In 2001, Governor Jeb Bush appointed him to serve on
> > one of Florida's key judicial nominating commissions. "I helped him
> > pick his judges in the state of Florida," Dozier said. He also went on
> > to visit with President George W. Bush in the White House. And when
> > Charlie Crist campaigned to take over the governor's office from Bush,
> > Dozier sat on the campaign's "Strengthening Florida's Families" panel.
> > Dozier later remarked at a prayer breakfast that the Lord Jesus had
> > told him, "Charlie Crist will be the next governor of the state of
> > Florida."
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> > "The tea party is a godly ordained party," Dozier has said. Also: "God
> > is not a socialist. God is not a Robin Hood."
> > As Republicans courted him, Dozier continued to express some of his
> > most extreme views. At a Reclaiming America convention in 2003, Dozier
> > declared that "We should take control of every facet of society." He
> > added that God was "100 percent for capital punishment. Oh, yeah, God
> > knew some were going to slip through, a few innocent ones. He knew
> > that. But you cannot have a society without capital punishment."
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> > He reserved his greatest fervor for that "paramount of sins,"
> > homosexuality—which he declared was "something so nasty and disgusting
> > that it makes God want to vomit."
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> > In 2006, he declared war on a local Islamic group trying to build a
> > mosque in the neighborhood. "One day," he intoned, "our grandchildren
> > will live under the grips of sharia law. It's coming our way. Islam
> > has a plan, a 20-year plan, to take over America from within. And
> > they're doing it." The feds charged a charity that Dozier and local
> > Republican activists had supported with swindling $3 million from
> > Haitian immigrants. And Dozier started asking Florida judicial
> > nominees if they were "God-fearing" and in favor of anti-sodomy laws.
> > The GOP establishment began to sour on Dozier. By the summer of 2006,
> > Crist and Jeb Bush had both dumped him.
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> > Of course, it makes perfect sense that Rick Santorum, himself totally
> > washed up for years after his historic defeat as a Senator, would
> > embrace Dozier.
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> > Go back and read Weinstein's fascinating piece. It will give you some
> > insight into those whom Santorum believes are fit to represent him.
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> > More:
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> >http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/gays-make-god-want-to-vomit-says...
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> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
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> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
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