Pompeo....A bigot in more ways than one:
Secretary Of State Nominee Mike Pompeo Vs. Religious Pluralism | Right Wing Watch
CIA director and former member of Congress
Mike Pompeo, whose confirmation hearing to be secretary of state will be held on Thursday, has a w
ell-documented history of working with activists who inflame anti-Muslim fear and bigotry, as Miranda
noted yesterday. A few years ago, speaking at a “God and Country” rally in Kansas, Pompeo allied himself with a pastor who gained notoriety for delivering a prayer in the state legislature criticizing America for having “worshipped other Gods and called it multiculturalism.”
Pompeo’s record of hostility to religious pluralism is deeply troubling for a secretary of state nominee, and not only because it undermines the core American values of religious liberty. A panel of distinguished former diplomats recently met at Georgetown University to warn that growing religious intolerance in the U.S.
threatens the ability of the U.S. to effectively advocate for human rights and for the victims of religious persecution in other countries.
You people stupidly call those of us who reject him religious bigots. ! It does not get much more dishonest than that. What the fuck is he?? He does exactly what you accuse us of doing, but it's OK because its directed at Muslims, but in your small minds it is somehow different
Those on the extreme right love to accuse the liberals and progressive of being hateful and intolerant but they are either willfully lying, or in denial, projecting their own hatred, and not in touch with reality.
They can say that we are hateful, bigoted, or intolerant all they wish. But let me sum up the difference between them and us. We do indeed have a problem with people who are hateful towards others simply because they do not approve of them or do not understand them. We are not tolerant of people who are on a mission to make life miserable for others in the name of ideology. We are not tolerant of the selfish and greedy who kick those who are less fortunate and struggling to get by, to the curb, so that they and their donors can have even more. We have a problem- and you can call it hateful if you wish- with people who arbitrarily and capriciously chose to marginalize, demean and deprive others of the rights that they take for granted.
We have a problem with people who discriminate and incite violence against others who they do not like, do not understand, or are threatened by them in some vague way. The same goes for vilify the poor, immigrants and with those of other ethnic groups and religions.
In summary, the rights intolerance is driven by hate, greed and ideology . All intolerance is not equal.
Anyone who has hatred and intolerance directed at them- whether it be subtle or overt, verbal or physical, in private or in the public/ political arena has the right to respond proportionately. If that response is portrayed or characterized as hatred so be it. But, know this all hatred and intolerance is not equal. Consider the following: