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For the Tea Party, truth is stranger than The Onion

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Tea Party Hates Manatees, Says Protecting Them Is "Against the Bible"
Jesus apparently hated manatees, according to a new Tea Party platform circulating around Florida.

Originating from the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots group, teabaggers are crying about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's intent to place restrictions against boating and other things near the city of Crystal River -- and now they're trying to get all Florida Tea Partiers to ask congress to block the wildlife service, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

And why would they be trying to do this? Because protecting animals like manatees is against the Bible and the Bill of Rights, according to one Tea Party leader.

"We cannot elevate nature above people," Citrus County Tea Party Patriots leader Edna Mattos told the paper. "That's against the Bible and the Bill of Rights."
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The only thing missing is a comment from a local man.
 
While the Tea Party may have co-opted this stance, it is hardly new. Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt once said, "We don't have to protect the environment. The Second Coming is at hand."

The Bible is one of the favorite tools of environmental rapists.
 
Wow!

With a stance like that it reminds of how it took a few weeks before they got around to changing their original name of the 'Tea Baggers' to the new name of the 'Tea Party'.
 
Well, they are waaayyy more to the right, and even less informed than this man.

Reagan said:
I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees, you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?
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Jesus apparently hated manatees, according to a new Tea Party platform circulating around Florida.

Originating from the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots group, teabaggers are crying about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's intent to place restrictions against boating and other things near the city of Crystal River -- and now they're trying to get all Florida Tea Partiers to ask congress to block the wildlife service, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

And why would they be trying to do this? Because protecting animals like manatees is against the Bible and the Bill of Rights, according to one Tea Party leader.

"We cannot elevate nature above people," Citrus County Tea Party Patriots leader Edna Mattos told the paper. "That's against the Bible and the Bill of Rights."
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:jaw-dropp
 
These people are the worst thing that could happen to the planet. Now, I'm no tree-hugging liberal, but dear God! How stupid can you get?
 
Almo said:
I'm glad I live in Canada right now...
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Got room?


And you see that religion really is a cult focused on death. We don't need to conserve. Our buddy Jesus is going to lovingly wipe everyone out when he comes back.

Sometimes I can't believe the idea got past the 3rd century AD.
 
PGH said:
Got room?


And you see that religion really is a cult focused on death. We don't need to conserve. Our buddy Jesus is going to lovingly wipe everyone out when he comes back.

Sometimes I can't believe the idea got past the 3rd century AD.
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:confused:
 
PGH said:
Got room?.
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Why do you think Canada and Australia keep their populations so low compared to the space we have?
For the sane Americans mass exodus that will eventually happen if this country keeps lurching to the right. :D
 
Every quote involved here comes from one person: Edna Mattos. Who the hell is Edna Mattos? Nobody of any importance, as far as I can tell. So now we know that Edna Mattos is... strange. But I'm having a hard time getting particularly incensed about one person saying stupid stuff. Hell, it's not even a standout in the genre.
 
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