{"id":128677,"date":"2015-11-10T21:02:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T04:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/by-their-conference-hosts-you-shall-know-them.html"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:23:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:23:55","slug":"by-their-conference-hosts-you-shall-know-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/by-their-conference-hosts-you-shall-know-them.html","title":{"rendered":"By their conference hosts you shall know them"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I can only assume, by accepting the invitation and taking the stage with a radical anti-gay theocrat like Kevin Swanson, is Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, and Ted Cruze either:<\/p>\n

a. Actively support Swanson's passionate declarations, before and at<\/i> this soiree, that the Bible clearly calls for the killing of gay people, and that the only<\/i> reason not to do that right away<\/i> is to give them a chance to repent and turn to Jesus … but, next week, next month, hey, who knows?<\/p>\n

b. Figure they can garner some extra polling points by showing up at an event headlined and including and applauded for those declarations (by Swanson and others), regardless of how they feel about it.<\/p>\n

I'm not sure which is more despicable.<\/p>\n

Do watch the extensive video of Swanson's tirade on the subject, on the very stage that the three candidates each showed up on to tout their superior eligibility for the presidency. The story begins about 5:55 into the clip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThree Republican candidates speak at anti-gay pastor’s rally<\/a><\/span>
\nRachel Maddow shows that while Democrats were participating in a candidates forum, Republicans Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz were guests at “religious freedom” event led by a pastor who preaches that homosexuality should be punished with death.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So I can only assume, by accepting the invitation and taking the stage with a radical anti-gay theocrat like Kevin Swanson, is Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, and Ted Cruze either: a. Actively support Swanson's passionate declarations, before and at this soiree, that the Bible clearly calls for the killing of gay people, and that the … Continue reading “By their conference hosts you shall know them”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,25,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-gay-stuff","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136875,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/the-convenience-of-considering-correlation-to-be-causation.html","url_meta":{"origin":128677,"position":0},"title":"The Convenience of Considering Correlation to be Causation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 4-Aug-18 3:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It takes some massive blind spots to play the \"This awful natural disaster is occurring in this place because They Have Sinned Against The Lord,\" but that doesn't keep dolts like Kevin Swanson from doing so.Like, for example, hey, Kev -- why does God pay such strict attention to state\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130217,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/17\/death-to-girl-scout-leaders.html","url_meta":{"origin":128677,"position":1},"title":"Death to Girl Scout Leaders!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Mar-16 8:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That's the call by Kevin Swanson, who says that, because he believes the organization drags young women into abortion, lesbianism, and birth control, its leadership ought to be killed -- preferably by drowning (per his interpretation of Matt. 18:4).I've seen some folk ask the difference between Da'esh and some of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131720,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/on-the-joys-of-the-swanson-tv-dinner.html","url_meta":{"origin":128677,"position":2},"title":"On the Joys of the Swanson TV Dinner","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Oct-16 12:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I, too, used to love these things. 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