| # | Name | US State | Comments |
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| 101 | AJ Redford | KS | |
| 102 | Daniel Melder | TX | |
| 103 | Hugh Sanborn | CO | Interfaith understanding, not prejudice, needs to be promoted by our leaders. |
| 104 | david sellers | MS | |
| 105 | Rev. Marvin Eckfeldt | WA | |
| 106 | Jackie Stevenson | MN | Would we could all set aside our tainted beliefs to see the good we could bring to our lives if we worked together instead of opposed to what we don't know or understand. |
| 107 | Chris Jones | GA | |
| 108 | Wendy Edwards | CA | |
| 109 | Gerald Zeven | CA | |
| 110 | Jeanie Williams-West | LA | |
| 111 | Lance Wahl | CA | please don't lower yourself to the mindset of the terrorists! |
| 112 | Craig Culver | CA | |
| 113 | Tom Boughan | TN | |
| 114 | Michael Grello | SC | |
| 115 | Cole Miller | | www.nomorevictims.org |
| 116 | Michael Higgins | NY | In WWII we put Japanese Americans into camps because they were the same race as our enemy. Now we should discriminate against Muslims because SOME of our enemies claim to be adherents of that religion? Will we ever learn? |
| 117 | Rev. Herbert D. Nobles | LA | |
| 118 | Natashja Dewolfe | WA | |
| 119 | Brian E. Sweis | AZ | |
| 120 | Mike HIggins | NY | |
| 121 | Krista Schwabe | FL | |
| 122 | David Collesano | FL | When people start talking about moral deficiencies of Islam, I point them to the story of the ordinary Muslims in Rwanda.
Prior to the massacre of one million Tutsis in '94, Islamists were a disparaged minority of less than 4% in a country which was 56% Catholic and 39% Protestant. Both Hutu and Tutsi elites worshipped in missionary christian churches built with American and European funds.
When the massacre broke-out, Hutu Muslims hid the persecuted of both groups (educated, moderate Hutus & Tutsi) in an exhibition of universal fraternity in the face of death threats. These Hutu Muslims were immune to an ocean of government propaganda which filled the airwaves. They actively and uniformly barred Hutu genocidaires from entering Muslim villages to seek out victims. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53018-2002Sep22.html
Many Catholic and Protestant clergy, on the other hand, both foreign and domestic, either actively participated in the massacres of their own flocks or, at best, fled the scene abandoning their congregations to the mass murderers. (with a blessing, of course) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Rwanda
After the end of the genocide, as a tribute to Muslim courage demonstrated everywhere in the country, many of the Rwandan survivors converted to Islam en masse raising (by 400%) the proportion of Muslims in the general population overnight to 16%. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3561365.stm
The story is told that Muhammed said: "Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is oppressed." People asked, "…It is right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?" The Prophet said, "By preventing him from oppressing others." http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/archives/veiled4allah/010896.php
This is a no-nonsense approach to human rights that echoes the admonitions of the Torah and the prophets. Let those who have ears, hear. |
| 123 | Emily Regan Wills | NY | |
| 124 | Elizabeth O'Nan | NC | I again am ashamed of the narrow Inquisitional views of people who seem to think America is their personal possession and that they can dictate to everyone else. |
| 125 | M. Faye Bennett | OR | |
| 126 | Re. Don Bennett | CA | The Pilgrims came to this country to escape the same kind of State Religion that Pat robertson Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and others like Rep goode
are trying to impose on all of us today. If they want a state religion let them move to Iran. |
| 127 | Jerilynn Adams | AZ | |
| 128 | Connie Cook Smith | IL | As a teenager, I was so ashamed of the prejudiced, un-loving adults at church that I dropped out of Christianity for decades. You remind me of them, Mr. Goode. May God forgive you. |
| 129 | Anonymous | MN | Congressman Goode, I was very disturbed by your remarks. We in MN are trying hard to combat racism and no matter what race nor creed, we believe that everyone should have an equal chance to serve in an elected or appointed official position. I am Christian but I respect other religions, sects and races. You need to rethink your postion and offer apologies. Thank you. |
| 130 | Vincent A. Ruiz | CA | Common sense would dictate that Mr. Ellison be allowed to swear his oath to be faithful to the laws and Constitition of the United States on whatever religious text he feels is representative of his faith and gives meaning to that oath. |
| 131 | Paul Gillis | CO | Virgil, please respect our constitution. |
| 132 | Vern Goehring | CA | |
| 133 | Travis Livengood | AZ | |
| 134 | Celeste Wolfe | CA | As an Ecumenical Christian, I find Congressman Goode's actions offensive and unrepresentative of American values and Christian ideals. Christ taught tolerance, love and forgiveness. Christ never beat anyone over the head with the Bible, and neither should we. People of the Faith are people of God. And God is Love. |
| 135 | Laura Minnick | OR | |
| 136 | Fr. John Bell | CA | |
| 137 | William Bache, Colonel, US Army retired | TX | Quite interesting that the Quoran the congressman used for his private Severing In Ceremony was that of former President of the United States Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. |
| 138 | Dennis Feichtinger | MI | |
| 139 | Cindy Diamond | KS | |
| 140 | Sheila Serrao | FL | Peace on earth has to start here. |
| 141 | Ted Farrar | MD | |
| 142 | Rev. Dr. Scott Daniels | MA | |
| 143 | Rev. Richard D. Rowlands | MI | |
| 144 | Stephanie Cash | NJ | |
| 145 | Michael Westmoreland-White | KY | As a Christian, I found Rep. Goode's remarks extremely offensive. My tradition, the Baptists, were pioneers in the struggle for religious liberty and church-state separation--the latter as the guarantee of the former. Baptists and Quakers, for instance, influenced both James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in their strong stances on religious liberty. Alas, far too many Baptists in the U.S. South today have abandoned that strong stand for religious liberty and church-state separation. Many in my tradition have forgotten our history--just as Rep. Goode seems to have forgotten the history of both Virginia and the U.S.
I am happy that this Congress is not only graced with the presence of America's first Muslim representative, but now 2 Buddhist representatives (one from Hawaii and one from Georgia!) and more Jewish members than Episcopalians! The diversity of contemporary America is finally being reflected in the halls of power.
The Constitution forbids any religious test of office. Rep. Goode violates the Constitution he swears to uphold with his intolerance for Rep. Ellison. Repent, Rep. Goode, repent! |
| 146 | Tony Mitchell | NY | It has long been a basis tenet of this country's beliefs that when one person is persecuted for their beliefs, all suffer. It is time that we work to end suffering, not perpetuate it. |
| 147 | Rev. David P. Baak | MI | |
| 148 | Maurice Smith | MA | Fundamentalist Christian bigotry is alive and well along with Fundamentalist Christian homophobia and racisim. the fundamentalist christian movement is distroying Christianity just look at the % of educated people that even go to church at all. gee I wonder why. maybe its because we don't want to be rubbing shoulders with the likes of KKK thinking people. maybe its time for Fundamentalist Christians to act like real Christians. |
| 149 | steve james | FL | |
| 150 | Arlene Murphy | VA | You are a good and caring man. Please reach out to your consituents to address this misunderstanding |