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We’ve known for a while now that religion is very important in the life of Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle. From her beliefs that rape and incest are part of God’s plan to her admission that she wants to legislate Biblical law, the Nevada Tea Party candidate hasn’t been shy about expressing her religious worldviews.
It appears that this has always been the case, even on issues as mundane as school football jerseys.
Via the Nevada State Democratic Party:
Beware the Power of the Dark Side. That’s the message Sharron Angle sent to a group of Tonopah high school football players who planned to wear black jerseys for their homecoming game at the start of her political career in the early 90′s.
Angle argued against the jerseys – part of a plan by the coach to psyche up a losing team for victory – at the time.
So why Angle’s grave concern about the color of some football jerseys?
“Black as a color was thoroughly evil, invoking the supernatural and especially the devil,” Angle and her posse argued at the time, writes Pahrump Valley Times columnist and former Tonopah Times-Bonanza publisher, Bill Roberts, who had a son on the team at the time.
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From the John L. Smith at the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
As a member of the Nye County School Board in the early 1990s, Angle was critical of the decision by Tonopah’s football coach to hand out black jerseys to his players to help psyche them up in preparation for a game against Laughlin High. Tonopah’s team was trying to avenge a loss from the previous year.
Angle, a conservative Christian, said the use of black was inappropriate and even Satanic…
There is no word on whether or not Angle objected to the team playing records backwards in the locker room to search for hidden messages about the other teams gameplans via demons, or sacrificing live chickens before the playoffs.
If Angle was making such religious quests out of such mundane issues while she was on the school board, one can only wonder what sort of havoc she could wreck on the senate in her desire to bring Biblical law to the country.
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+ add your ownThe color black has been used for centuries for various reasons. One if the reasons is, black is the void were all forms come from and go back.
It is the place to rest. We have only missed used the information about black around the time of the christian movement. They have made it evil.
Color,or the lack of it is not evil. Human's in the effort to control others, have made a lot of life to appear evil,. To continue their dominance.
I am glad the the light is shining into all of the slimy dark places where hurtful idea's come from. Transparency is good.
It's no coincidence that candidates such as Angle and Bachmann are on the ballot right now, and that they are women. If male candidates said the same unbelievably frightening things about the direction they wish to take this country, I think the media would take it more seriously. Since the press are already pre-disposed to not taking women seriously, they spend time discussing their hair and families, and ignore the truly scary positions they espouse. People with religious views as fanatical as Angle and Palin don't really believe in democracy or the constitution. They will say and promise whatever they think is necessary to gain the power to turn this country into a theocracy. If there are the dumb ones with big mouths that we know about, like Angle, how many brighter candidates are out there with the same purpose but able to keep their true designs quiet. It is no coincidence that the republican party has been completely taken over by religious fanatics, and that so much money and effort has gone into vilifying those who oppose them. There are a lot of bad directions this country could go in, but the one they will never recover from will be a takeover by the forces of fundamentalist religion. I've really come to believe that there is no god, at least as they posit one, but those who believe are true wild-eyed fanatics. People will do things in the name of religion they would never do otherwise. We need to wake up to the danger we're in.
I can only hope this woman continues to share her views with the public. Seems like every time she opens her mouth she demonstrates how incredibly WHACKO she is..... and that is certainly her right. I encourage her letting her nutjob flag fly (plus, it is entertaining) Don't miss the fact that as soon as the media began following her crazy pronouncements: alcohol should be banned in Las Vegas, (wow, that one won't go over well) black summons the devil, etc.... her polling numbers get worse. Shine a big ol' media light on this woman!!!! She can compete with the best of the political nutjobs.
If I was unfortunate enough to stumble upon Sharron Angle's funeral, it would be one time I'd hope I wasn't wearing black, due to its use to represent mourning--HAPPY colors would be apropos for that particular occasion! Something FESTIVE!
This idiot undoubtedly attends the same "church" as Sarah Palin!
One must be entitled to their beliefs, but beliefs have consequences. If a public figure has beliefs opposing the use of a color for religious reasons; imagine what bizarre right wing delusions would enter important political decisions. Note that conservative religious leaders attributed the horrors of 9/11 to gay Americans, along with the natural disaster of Katrina. A disease process caused by a retro-virus (AIDS) is believed by them to be the punishment of an angry deity. They ignore the fact that such a god has very poor vision; missing millions of homosexuals and taking out millions of women and children. A couple of years ago, one prominent religious leader stated that God spoke to hum about the impending results of a Florida election, saying"If I heard god right..." And people actually send money to these charlatans who are the most dividing element in the country today. What on earth has happened to the level of intelligence in the country? A news report of several days ago says that a number of enlisted servicemen were restricted to barracks because they didn't want to attend a conservative religious concert. This was apparently against Army regulations. Right wing political & religious extremism has crept into every area of life, & has impacted the progress of science with its interference at the CDC in Atlanta. This, folks, is the tip of a dictatorial iceberg.
You have GOT to be kidding me. I hope everyone shows up to her funeral in black. This also shows her probably similar views towards black people...very sick.
Is she a retard? Seriously. O_o
Religion! That's all I have to say.
Religion! That's all I have to say.
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