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Last week, Brad Pitt’s mother Jane Pitt hit headlines after penning a response letter-to-the-editor of her local newspaper, Missouri’s Springfield News Leader, in which she advocated support for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, referring to him as a “a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion, and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality.”
“Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for Romney's opponent, Barack Hussein Obama – a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for years, did not hold a public ceremony to mark the National Day of Prayer, and is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage,” she continued. “I hope all Christians give their vote prayerful consideration because voting is a sacred privilege and a serious responsibility.”
However, it seems the backlash surrounding Jane’s opinion has become so vehement that she has reportedly been “scared into silence.”
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
and other people have the freedom to have and express opinions about them.
What a good "Christian" she is!
I am not picking on you, FF. You just start the best threads!
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
You would be singing a completely different song if she wrote an anti-republican letter and republicans gave her death threats in my humble opinion.
Most lefties will defend this and all of them would say "Neanderthals, so violent bla bla bla" if the tables were turned.
Originally posted by NavyDoc
Makes one wonder about Mr. Pitt's politics if his mother is so conservative.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
reply to post by NavyDoc
Originally posted by NavyDoc
Makes one wonder about Mr. Pitt's politics if his mother is so conservative.
I don't wonder about his politics at all:
1. He's not a politician. He's an actor and Hollywood star. Why should his politics matter?
2. Brad Pitt is known for supporting Democratic causes...
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Originally posted by jjkenobi
Ah yes, Democrats, the party of diversity and tolerance. The irony just drips off of this one. I wonder if Brad will stick up for his mommy.
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Originally posted by jjkenobi
Ah yes, Democrats, the party of diversity and tolerance. The irony just drips off of this one. I wonder if Brad will stick up for his mommy.
To further the point why would anyone attack anyone else for their point of view?
You're just proving the point for them.
If I should call someone out as being an asshole and that someone should beat me up does that make that someone suddenly not an asshole?
Originally posted by FlyersFan
So .. really America? Death threats against someone who wrote a letter to the newspaper simply because you disagree with them poltiically? I don't agree with Jane Pitts position, but I certainly don't think she deserves death threats because she has very conservative views and supports one candidate over the other.
Originally posted by groingrinder
This is the folly of Democrats and Republicans and why they need to be removed from our political system. Criminal gangsters will always behave like criminal gangsters no matter how nicely they dress up for the press.
You cannot keep voting Republicans and Democrats into office and expect any real change. We have had nothing but gangsters in office for the last fifty years. I do not understand why people cannot make the connection between our failing country and the shysters that have been in office for the last fifty years.
Democrats and Republicans have an AGENDA. That agenda does not include you and me.
Do America a big favor and quit voting Republicans and Democrats into office.
If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten. BOHICA!!
Originally posted by olaru12
I'll bet that it was conservatives that wrote the death threats just so they could rag on the liberals.
Agent provocateurs as it were. A well known ploy in American politics where we get the best government money can buy.edit on 11-7-2012 by olaru12 because: (no reason given)