Every Now and Then Their Pants Fall Down
Remember when I told you about how the Multnomah County Republican Party in Oregon up and decided that a great way to celebrate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King was to raffle off an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle? You know, two men murdered with guns.
Well, there’s been a small hitch in their fan belt. It seems that some people, one even from right here at your favorite beauty salon, decided that it was be a good move to complain to the church where the Multnomah County Republican Party was holding this event.
A Greek Orthodox church in Portland on Friday yanked permission for the Multnomah County Republican Party to hold a Lincoln Day fundraising dinner tied to a controversial gun raffle.
Of course, they are playing victim, claiming that “this is what Republicans face in Multnomah County,” a heavily Democratic County. I don’t think he completed the sentence. In actuality it goes like this – “this is what Republicans face in Multnomah County … when they try to do something butt ignorant and hateful.”
Way to go, Oregon Democrats. If Republicans are going to celebrate violence, better it is that God not endorse it.
Thanks to Fenway Fran and Mark for the heads up.
Wow! It’s nice to see the good guys win for a change.
1Why aren’t the Repubs celebrating? They always seem to think that private organizations and churches in particular should be allowed to do whatever they want.
2One wonders how much longer it will be before Republicans claim all gun regulations are an unconstitutional infringement on their freedom of religion.
3So, a Greek Orthodox church decided they didn’t want this event on their property and the Repubs are claiming to be victims.
Gee, sounds as though the Multnomah County Republican Party doesn’t believe in freedom of religion.
4Good on the one who contacted the church about this! The Repugs are whining cuz they lost the venue but are they still going to proceed with this obscene gun raffle in “honor” of Abe and MLK? That’s the money question as they say on the Hill.
5Not that this great group of commenters needs to be reminded but I would say this reaffirms the often forgotten truth that “the Pen is Mightier than the Assault Rifle” and can even be mightier than the “Ass . . . haulters” that would plan a sick, racist party
6such as this to “honor” genuinely good people.
Pfft. Yeah, they are being persecuted again. Morons.
7Yeah, my grandson got persecuted like that once when he accused me of NOT MAKING him do his homework. It was my fault, see?
8‘Beat your swords into plowshares.’
9Good grief … these people couldn’t have found a Southern Baptist church with a basement hall or something? If that’s not the case in the Pacific Northwest, there ought to be plenty of nonsectarian for-profit banquet halls around. And if that fails as well, maybe they can just set up folding tables inside one of the local indoor shooting ranges, although it might be trampling on some shooters’ Second Amendment rights to require that they suspend blasting away during the meal.
10Good on that church! I bet they would have been pleased to host a raffle of homemade pies or hand carvings, or maybe a barbeque pit.
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