(RW news watch) Hillary says immigration bill would make Jesus illegal

[underpants]

This was just mentioned in the press conference. I googled it. The RW is all over this.

Looks like Hillary is trying to take Jesus back.

GOP WOULD HAVE BOOTED JESUS: HILL
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/63514.htm
March 23, 2006 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ratcheted up her talk about religion yesterday - saying a GOP-sponsored bill making it a felony to be in the United States illegally would have "criminalized" Jesus.

Clinton: Immigration Bill Would Make Jesus a Criminal
http://www.nysun.com/article/29661


Hillary Clinton: GOP Immigration Bill Would 'Criminalize Jesus'
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/22/223316.shtml



Playing the Religion Card
http://www.worldmagblog.com/blog/archives/023425.html

[mike_c]

1. if that's true, it has my full support....

eom

[LittleClarkie]

15. Jesus is the shit

It's some of his followers who have "issues"

[SaveElmer]

2. Good for her...

I think it makes the point quite well actually...if the RW'ers are choking on it all the better!

[0007]

10. Ya have ta love it! Carl Cameron brought it this morning at the

nooz conference with McClellan. Of course McClellan danced around it.

[mmonk]

3. Why not?

The republican version of Jesus isn't anything I can find in the words attributed to him.

[Radical Activist]

4. But Jesus was American!

That woman is just hysterical! ;)

[mmonk]

5. Who spoke in King James English.

[xultar]

6. GO HILL! Though Dems hate her she's the only one who will get down

and roll-with the fuckers. She's got some big-ass-brass-ones. I for one salute her for that!

[wisteria]

8. Oh, please. She isn't the first Dem to refer to religion while

making a point, why Senator Kerry and former Presidents' Carter and Clinton have deferred to their beliefs when making a point about an issue. Actually, I almost cringed when I heard her say this. The statement just didn't seem to fit IMO.

[xultar]

11. I wasn't saying she was.

[juajen]

13. Hey, that's a generalization!

A lot of us love her. Stating that over and over again does not make it so.

[eleny]

7. Not to mention that this administraton would drive him to a barstool

[stray cat]

9. She is right! of course we would not let him in the country

or we would have let him die as a child

[karynnj]

12. It would have made sense

if she could refer to an action that would have made Jesus a criminal. I guess with the good smaritan she is assuming that the stranger he helped was an illegal alien - which I think goes beyond the text.

I get a bad feeling when the Republicans distort religious texts. Here if she pointed to specific elements of the bill and said this went against her vaules as a Christian (mentioning other religions too would get extra points.).

[John Barrett]

14. I'd Like ALL To Keep Religion Out Of Government

Frankly I wish that all these politicians would shut up about religion. It has no place in government and the less said the better.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. LOL, you gotta love her saying that!

She's giving um custody of that little legislation to gain Hispanic voters...
but can the Republican savior resurrect the party that pulls his strings?
only time will tell.