Yes. That's right. Dan Patrick, the reichtwing radio talk show host whose "baby buying" bill was first reported by TexasKaos' moiv and has since brought widespread condemnation of Patrick, the Texas GOP and (of course) Texas, walked out on the very first Muslim prayer held in the Senate and then had the audacity to call himself tolerant!
"I think that it's important that we are tolerant as a people of all faiths, but that doesn't mean we have to endorse all faiths, and that was my decision," he said later, "I surely believe that everyone should have the right to speak, but I didn't want my attendance on the floor to appear that I was endorsing that."
Patrick was the only Texas Senator to walk out on him.
Ok, let me get this straight. You want to show your tolerance for religious freedom...by turning you back literally on it and walking out it?!? The man, like his buddy Rick Perry, is either a bumbling idiot or a political genius. I'm going with idiot.
What adds to the irony is the fact that the lawmaker who invited the Muslim cleric, Imam Yusuf Kavakci of the Dallas Central Mosque, was a Jewish woman and fellow Republican, Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano.
So go ahead, Dan. Explain to everyone in only your delusional, "baby buying" world how your actions make sense. Explain how a Jewish woman can invite and listen to a Muslim cleric but a fundamentalist Christian cannot. Explain why she has no problem this occured before the holy Jewish celebration of Passover but you and your fellow wingers are incensed a Muslim man spoke at the Senate days before Easter. Exactly when would it be ok for a Muslim man to speak, Dan?
Questions of racism & police brutality stroke the emotions of 100s in NYC after 5 policemen fired 50 rounds into a car, killing the driver on his wedding day.
Speaking of profiling, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish religious leaders carried out a "pray-in" protest in Washington, DC to demand an apology from US Airways which kicked 6 Muslim scholars off a plane. Seems some ignorant passenger became alarmed when the scholars began to prayer and passed a note to a flight attendant that got these men handcuffed and jailed.
I'm sorry, but I didn't realize praying to your God was a terrorist act.
Now passengers are within their rights to be stupid and bigoted. It's their life and if they want to always live in fear, that's their loss. What is inexcusable is US Airways caving into that bigotry. They owe these men a public apology. As for that passenger, I have to ask: what kind of person is frightened by prayer? This is what happens when you watch inflammatory tabloids like Faux News. Thank God some men of cloth are not so damn ignorant and afraid of life.
