Delaware GOP Candidate: Ask Liberals Why They're Nazis
Updated at 5:43 p.m. ET
Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell may be getting all the attention these days, but Glen Urquhart, the Republican candidate for the state's open House seat, apparently doesn't want to get left out of the action.
The Tea Party-backed candidate appears in a video in which he says: "Next time your liberal friends talk about the separation of Church and State ask them why they're Nazis." Democrats have seized on the comments and labeled Urquhart an extremist, The Hill reports.
Urquhart's full comment:
"Do you know, where does this phrase separation of Church and State come from? Does anybody know? ... Actually, that's exactly, it was not in Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists. He was reassuring that the federal government wouldn't trample on their religion. The exact phrase 'separation of Church and State' came out of Adolph Hitler's mouth, that's where it comes from. Next time your liberal friends talk about the separation of Church and State ask them why they're Nazis."
The phrase does appear in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists. The passage reads, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
As The Hill notes, Urquhart's spokesman said Urquhart has apologized for the comments. The candidate "believes 100 percent in religious freedom for all Americans," the spokesman said, and was speaking against the "oppression of religious freedom in the name of separation of church and state."
Urquhart's comments are not the only controvertial Nazi-related statement this week: Pope Benedict XVI, appearing in Scotland, yesterday cited "Nazi tyranny" as an example of "the sobering lessons of atheist extremism in the 20th century," as the New York Times reports.
The comment prompted the British Humanist Association, an atheist group, to complain that "The notion that it was the atheism of the Nazis that led to their extremist and hateful views, or that it somehow fuels intolerance in Britain today, is a terrible libel against those who do not believe in God."
It also comes as comedian Jon Stewart announces a "Rally to Restore Sanity" which calls on both the right and left to stop comparing those they disagree with to Hitler.
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Republicans are retarded.
He is probably right, Hitler along with many other leaders have made words sound rightous amongst men, but Glen is wrong for calling liberals Nazis.
For indeed, Socrates was executed for "disrespecting the gods".
Certainly Socrates was a liberal thinker we all admire today.
The idea that Jefferson conveys' also holds true of religion overwhelming the power of the state thus holding true to democracy you idiots....not national socialists.
Glen indeed is getting his 15 minutes of fame because the freedom of the press will not be infringed.
"Freedom FROM religion!
KEEP YOUR FAITHS OUT OF MY FACE!!!"
Is NOT a Hitler quote. It is my own statement.
"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."
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"I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work."
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"Thus inwardly armed with confidence in god and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it."
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"The National Government will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."
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"The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society."
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"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith ... We need believing people."
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"The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ...proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism..."
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"As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service."
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"The work that Christ started but could not finish, I, Adolf Hitler, will conclude."
Freedom FROM religion!
KEEP YOUR FAITHS OUT OF MY FACE!!!
~ ADOLF HITLER