Bob McDonnell: "I'm not apologizing"

In the video set forth below GOP candidate Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell had the opportunity to confirm that he no longer adheres to the far right batshittery set forth in his thesis written while he was a 34 year old student at crackpot Christianist Pat Robertson's CBN University (n/k/a Regent University) yet McDonnell chose to disclaim none of it. Of course, knowing Bob McDonnell and his puppeteers at The Family Foundation - Daddy Dobson's Virginia arm of the gay hating Focus on the Family - and at Regent University, McDonnell will never disavow his thesis statements: to do so would send the wingnuts in Virginia into convulsions and also cause them to stop contributing money and grass roots labor to his campaign. On top of that, I believe that McDonnell truly believes everything he wrote in his thesis. He simply does not get the fact that as a public official, be it as Governor or as a member of the Virginia General Assembly, he does NOT get to force his religious beliefs on all other citizens.

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Thomas Jefferson who drafted the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom - which is STILL Part of the Code of Virginia - must be rolling over in his grave at the prospect of McDonnell and his allies in the Christian Taliban possibly gaining control of the Governor's mansion. McDonnell and his Christianist allies are exactly the type of people Jefferson condemned so eloquently:

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[T]he impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavouring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical. . .

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I cannot state it any better than Jefferson. Taliban Bob needs to look in the mirror and understand that Jefferson was writing about people like McDonnell and his masters in the Christian Taliban.