Conservative Group Calls for Ehrlich's Resignation

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FALLS CHURCH, Va., June 23, /Christian Newswire/ -- Public Advocate President Eugene Delgaudio released the following statement today calling for the resignation of Maryland Governor Ehrlich.

“It is a disgrace that anyone would be fired for stating their religious beliefs in a public forum not connected with their job capacity. But that is exactly what Governor Ehrlich did last week when he fired Metro board member Robert J. Smith.

“This is sure to have a chilling effect on freedom of speech rights of Maryland government officials, all of whom have been put on notice that if they state their personally held religious beliefs in public they can be expect to pay for it with their jobs. What’s next? Are these public officials going to have to check with the Governor to see if their church is politically correct enough?

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“The Governor should be ashamed of himself and should immediately resign. The pro-family citizens of Maryland should not have to be represented by an anti-Christian bigot.”

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/51532402.html








As you may have heard, Smith was fired for commenting on a cable TV show that gays are sexual deviants. I applaud Governor Erlich for his action and do not in any way see it as "anti-Christian bigotry". Just because you cloak your prejudices and hatreds in the form of religious beliefs does not mean you can get away with spewing them and hurting others with them, and Governor Erlich's action shows just that.

[Mythsaje]

1. Public servants don't get to be public bigots...

He shouldn't be casting stones until he pulls the log out of his own eye.

Or something to that effect.

Christians my ass.

[NMMNG]

3. Indeed

These people think they can use their position as a pulpit for their bigotries. Maybe this can be their wakeup call that this is not the case.

[Erika]

2. Why don't these so called Christians worry about the

poor, and their shelter. Instead they are showing a deep hatred for any group who doesn't bow down to their narrow fanatical religious views. These people are as fanatic as the Fred Phelps group.

The new Republican party and W's America.

[NMMNG]

4. Their opinion of the poor is that they deserve their plight

You know..."Pull yourself up by your bootstraps you lazy #$%!", "God helps those who help themselves" and all that. Heartless bastards. :eyes:

[xchrom]

5. public servants paid with public dollars don't get to spew hate.

[Meldread]

6. I hope Erlich steamrolls the bastards...

...I'm glad that he did what he did and he should be commended. He should come out and flat out say he won't accept bigotry in his Administration, and that if members of his Administration can't show respect to ALL Maryland's citizens then they are in the wrong line of work.

[thrift_store_angel]

8. Ehrlich is just playing election yr politics

He really isn't all that noble, he deserves to take a beating from the religious right. I doubt he is winning over anyone with these ploys, no one is going to forget that he vetoed the medical decision making act, so if he alienates some of his base in the process of doing a few good things then that is even better.

[yardwork]

7. So now bigotry is a religious belief?

I'd think that most Christians would want to distance themselves from having their religion identified as bigotry.

[NMMNG]

11. It always has been (at least for the religious right)

Because the Buy-Bull sez so. :puke:

[kevinbgoode]

9. His ass wouldn't have BEEN on that cable program if he was just

"Joe Everyman". . so the christo-fascists need to just shut-the-fuck-up with their crap. Calling someone a "sexual deviant" isn't a "religious" belief anyway - nor is it anti-christian to reprimand a public official for insulting members of the public. Just because so-called "christians" believe they alone have special rights to insult others doesn't mean it is proper behavior for all public officials. Perhaps someone should go on the air and attack their version of religion - and do it relentlessly and with the same tone of viciousness.

I'm sick of them crying out they are "victims". . .maybe they need to learn what it means to actually be treated like scum.

[NMMNG]

12. Isn't it interesting?

Those whackjobs can go on the air and say whatever vile crap they want and they usually get away with it. But any time a show comes on that impugns their precious religion in the slightest they are all over it with rants, boycotts and other BS until it is canceled or censored. They love the First Amendment when it protects them, but hate it when it protects others. :eyes:

[ruggerson]

10. It's not bigoted to oppose bigotry

this is the rational of the mind fuckers:

We support slavery. It's our religious belief. If you oppose us in our belief system, then you are an anti christian bigot.

Black is white and white is black.

They are insane.

[NMMNG]

13. Of course they are

They want a stranglehold on the nation, if not the world, and anybody who opposes them is a bigot. However nothing they do is bigoted no matter how hateful. :crazy: