Gingrich to Obama: ‘Respect our religion,’ not ‘every other religion’
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he’s had it with President Barack Obama “respecting every other religion on the planet,” and thinks it’s time for him to “respect our religion” instead.
At a campaign event in Florida on Monday, Gingrich seized on letters read at Catholic Churches across the U.S. that condemned the Obama administration for making birth control more available to women.
“Callista and I were at mass last night, and I believe at every Catholic Church, they are reading a letter about the Obama administration’s attack on Christianity,” Gingrich explained. “This is a fundamental assault on the freedom of religion. … If you help me win the nomination and then you help me win the election, on the very first day I’m inaugurated, I will sign an executive order repealing every Obama attack on religion across the entire government.”
“I think we need to have a government that respects our religions,” he added. “I’m a little bit tired of being lectured about respecting every other religion on the planet. I’d like him to respect our religion.”
While he was at it, Gingrich also charged that the current Republican frontrunner, Mitt Romney, had waged his own war on religion.
“Gov. Romney imposed on the Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts, a position against their conscious,” he said, possibly referring to the misleading claim that Romney supported government-subsidized abortions. He could have also been referencing a decision the former Massachusetts governor made to provide the Plan B birth control pill under Medicaid.
“Gov. Romney cut off Kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day,” Gingrich continued.
The New York Post reported last week that that Romney had used his veto in 2003 to reject $600,000 in funds that would have allowed poor Jewish nursing homes to get Kosher meals.
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Jan. 30, 2012.
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Exactly, no one is forcing to you take birth control, or have an abortion, or enter into a gay marriage!
Quoting pixie92:
Why is everything an attack on christianity? how is it that women being able to get bc is an attack on christianity? it seems to me like it is something to help women not an attack.
OK, I DO NOT like Obama, but I think Newt claiming to be a Christian with some of the questionable morals that he has is more of an assault on Christianity than anything Obama can do. I do think ALL religions should be respected and NONE of them should be the basis for laws. He's just trying to win the Catholic vote, I'm not real sure what he plans to repeal, unless he wants the holiday trees to go back to being Christmas trees. I'm in favor of that.
Again, the headline does not match up with the actual quote, does it?
Liberal twists again.
Dear Newt,
Try respecting people then the rest will take care of itself. Fucktard religion does not belong in bed with politics!
No he didn't. Making stuff up is wrong.
Quoting Maisy08:
Funny unless we are muslime we are not us, can I ask what happened to national pray day , oh that's right he took that away from the us
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