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beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 06:43 AM Nov 2015

Republican Who Said Autism Was Result of God’s Anger Over Gay Marriage Will Run for Congress Again

Republican Who Said Autism Was Result of God’s Anger Over Gay Marriage Will Run for Congress Again
November 26, 2015 by Hemant Mehta

Susanne Atanus (below), the Illinois Republican who told a newspaper in 2014 that God put autism and dementia on Earth as punishment for marriage equality and abortion, lost her bid for Congress that year.

But she’s going to try again anyway, even if the Republican Party wants nothing to do with her.



Atanus Atanus told the Daily Herald in January of 2014:

“I am a conservative Republican and I believe in God first,” Atanus said. She said she believes God controls the weather and has put tornadoes and diseases such as autism and dementia on earth as punishment for gay rights and legalized abortions.

“I am a conservative Republican and I believe in God first,” Atanus said. She said she believes God controls the weather and has put tornadoes and diseases such as autism and dementia on earth as punishment for gay rights and legalized abortions.


Atanus’ comments were so despicable that GOP officials asked her to drop out of the race. It didn’t work. She won her primary, lost the race to Democrat incumbent Rep. Jan Schakowsky, and the Republicans lost a chance to pick up another seat in the House.

I guess I should be thrilled, then, that Atanus announced she’ll run again next year:

Susanne Atanus filed petition signatures Monday to get on the ballot as a Republican candidate in the 9th Congressional District.
Cook County GOP Chairman Aaron Del Mar says someone with the party will “for sure” challenge Atanus’ petitions in an attempt to get her removed from the race.

...

“We will not support her at all,” Del Mar said. “We don’t want anything to do with her.”


That’s right. They won’t support her. They’re too busy supporting the candidates who think Mexican immigrants are rapists, that Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain, and that being gay is a choice. Given the Presidential candidates in the Republican Party, Atanus is hardly out of place on the Right. “God did whatever idiotic thing I’m about to say next” is practically their slogan.

Schakowsky, I assume, is thrilled at her entrance into the race.


http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/11/26/republican-who-said-autism-was-result-of-gods-anger-over-gay-marriage-will-run-for-congress-again
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Republican Who Said Autism Was Result of God’s Anger Over Gay Marriage Will Run for Congress Again (Original Post) beam me up scottie Nov 2015 OP
If she wins Turbineguy Nov 2015 #1
Yep. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #2
she actually sounds pretty mainstream Republican to me. mountain grammy Nov 2015 #3
Unfortunately they're getting loonier every election season. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #5
The GOP really doesn't like reaping what it's sown. deucemagnet Nov 2015 #4
Yeah it stopped being funny a long time ago. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #6
Ugh... sakabatou Dec 2015 #7
Just when you think you've seen the worst of the Republicans beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #8
the face of ignorance RussBLib Dec 2015 #9

deucemagnet

(4,549 posts)
4. The GOP really doesn't like reaping what it's sown.
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 12:58 PM
Nov 2015

I'd find it much more humorous if there wasn't a real chance some of these nutjobs might actually be elected, even to the highest office in the nation.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
8. Just when you think you've seen the worst of the Republicans
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 04:48 AM
Dec 2015

one like this crawls out from underneath a rock.

RussBLib

(9,665 posts)
9. the face of ignorance
Thu Dec 3, 2015, 11:22 AM
Dec 2015

damn, "she" looks like Scalia.

It's really embarrassing when these asshats run for office. Even worse when they get elected.

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