Voters in the Republican primary will have two very different candidates to choose from in the 9th Congressional District, as David Earl Williams III and Susanne Atanus vie for the right to face Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the fall.
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"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 in response to gay rights and legalized abortions.
"God is angry. We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions," she said. "Same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS. If it's in our military it will weaken our military. We need to respect God."
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Gay sex does not cause bad weather. Bad weather causes gay sex. When the weather is bad, people stay inside more, when people stay inside more, they have more sex. The more your god causes bad weather, the more it is encouraging gays to have sex.
Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne! All shall burn!
By the dubz, Suzanne At Anus, have you entertained the prospect that maybe homophobia , not homosexuality, is causing the bad weather?
God is angry. We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions
God is also very upset about the designated hitter rule in the AL, the speed limit on the Jersey turnpike, and the 2014 prime time line up on NBC, but you can't please everybody, can you?
Btw, this is Ms. Atanus:
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Looks like God's punishment isn't limited to just bad weather.
I'm autistic and I find this offensive.
What? You were expecting a reversal? Too bad, this woman is just plain offensive.
So, there were no tornadoes, autistic people or people with dementia in the world before WWI?
Chapter and verse in the Bible where God prohibits abortions, please. If he's so angry due to these things, how come Sweden is pretty safe from tornadoes, but the US Bible Belt has tornadoes quite often? Sadly, we have these nutters here in Sweden too; recently a new party was formed by people who think our Christian Democrats are not conservative and reactionary enough, whose primary issue is infringements on reproductive rights and prohibition of abortions.
Opposite-sex activities cause most HIV cases nowadays, stupid. The drugs against AIDS are now so effective that very few in developed countries get full-blown AIDS. It seems God is appeased with drugs...
"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 in response to gay rights and legalized abortions.
"God is angry. We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions," she said. "Same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS. If it's in our military it will weaken our military. We need to respect God."
Unfortunately a lot of righ-wingnutters will vote for her based on this alone.
'She said she believes God controls the weather and has put tornadoes and diseases such as autism and dementia on earth as in response to gay rights and legalized abortions.'
Every intelligent person who read this probably groaned, either inside their head or audibly.
Well done on losing the respect of people with brains.
Well, Atanus's manifesto should be enough to make intelligent people cast their votes with care - for a candidate who puts the affairs of the citizens and the country first, and leaves people to make their own way to God, as they choose.
It's batshit pure and simple for anyone to claim they know the mind of God with such precision. Probably also blasphemous. For a politician to do so, in my mind, reeks of religiosity . I would further take the view that political power in the hands of such a person is unsafe.
It used to be 'God bless America'. Nowadays it's more like God help America!
For autism, I think Inigo Montoya summed it up best: "I do not think it means what you it means."
Seriously I've seen many people confused about what autism means. It's not a mental illness or disease or any stupid crap like that. It's a neurological condition that makes socialization difficult. Not to mention the varying degrees to the spectrum.
I myself am autistic. I think I speak for all of those who have autism when I tell you to go fuck yourself.
She said she believes God controls the weather and has put tornadoes and diseases such as autism and dementia on earth as in response to gay rights and legalized abortions.
Susanne Atanus, you little bitch, I hope David Earl Williams III win the GOP primaries.
Else, I hope your Dem opponent win the 9th Congressional District seat.
@babyhenchy1
..when I tell you to go DIAF .
FIFY
On the bright side, the article does imply that David Earl Williams III is, at least, fairly rational. Let's hope he's got a good PR machine to match...
Again, if God sends tornadoes because he's angry at gays, why does he send the vast majority of them to godfearing places like the Bible Belt and the Midwest instead of sinful heathen liberal places like Massachusetts? Thinking doesn't run too highly in fundies, obviously.
Hail S.Atanus! That should be enough to deflate her campaign. Just keep referring to her as Satanus, and reminding the voters that you can spell Satan with her name, so voting for her is voting for Satan... Suddenly a conservative base doesn't work in her favor
So I live in Jan Schakowsky's district and she's a longtime family friend. Reading about the opponents she's going to be going up against makes me happy that we'll be having a another few terms of Jan to look forward to.
It's not like the Republicans have been able to field an opponent for her ever before, to the point where she's run unopposed a few times. I'm not sure why they think this time will be any different. Jan's district is almost entirely filled with hardcore progressives.
""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"
Yeah, well the last time someone else - and very recently - said the same, a correspondent on Sky News said 'You've just lost [i]half[/i] the country!'
PROTIP: Those in North Korea say that their Eternal President Kim Il-sung controls the weather too. Oh, and China has virtually industrial-scale abortions. Not exactly seeing your military wanting to invade China; not even before DADT; eh? Nah, can't be due to all their Type 99 Iron Chariots; Judges 1:19 and all that jazz...! [/Doug Piranha-levels of sarcasm]
Moral: Right-wing Fundamental ist Christains in the US clearly don't learn from their lesson(s). Insanity being defined as repeating the same thing, and expecting different results.
If 'God is angry', o Susie Hatanus, then in Soviet China, God worships you.
@Mech610
"It's not like the Republicans have been able to field an opponent for her ever before, to the point where she's run unopposed a few times. I'm not sure why they think this time will be any different"
After all, look where their past selections has gotten them? Mitt Romney was the loser when McCain was nominated. McCain was the loser when Dumbya was nominated , so if the past LOSERS haven't done the GOP any good, especially considering the rest they'd dredged up from the fetid sewage pool, and selected the least gangrenous & zombified - to represent their 'best', then no wonder the Democrats have absolutely noting to worry about, re. 2016. The only possible chance the Repubicans have now - with that now all-important word 'Demographics' - is to become more Democrat than the Democrats themselves.
And that means a complete purge of all right-wing & fundie elements from the GOP. They've ultimately done for you, so it couldn't possibly make things worse for you to become left -wing & Atheist, eh Repubicans?
As an autistic person, I reject the notion that my existence is a curse. Sure, I have problems that "normal people" don't, but I also have the advantage of being able to see through bullshit when others around me don't and the ability to think things through logically without being blinded by my own arrogance (most of the time, anyway). Fair trade, I'd say.
"she believes God controls the weather and has put tornadoes and diseases such as autism and dementia on earth as in response to gay rights and legalized abortions"
At least Autistic people have a far greater grasp of Reality than you do, Susanne (Who wears her)Anus (as a H)at.
...that's where your head is usually situated, is it not?! >:D
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...and someone who belie ved in a Repubican has lost the whole country.
And that was just in the local elections in May here in the UK.
After that political equivalent of certain scenes in the "Hostel" films, what happened a month later was the electoral version of what the Cenobites do to their victims in the "Hellraiser" films.
All of which was a couple of years after Obergefell vs. Hodges. Also, a legislation-deciding referendum in Ireland.
What happened to Kim Il-Davis. Fundie Christain bakers in Northern Ireland last year, when they lost their appeal.
With a name like 'Atanus ', would you like to be the head or tail segment of the socio-political equivalent of what is the eponymous 'creation' in the "Human Centipede" films, Suse...?!
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