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Glenn Beck and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)expressed harmonized
outrage<http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/87665-rep-king-r-slams-sabbath-vote>
on
Beck's radio program Thursday about news that the House might vote on the
health care reform package this Sunday. Voting on a Sunday, they said, was
offensive and heretical.

"They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty
that we have right from God," King said.

"Faith has been perverted," Beck responded, then repeated. "They are going
to vote for this damn thing on a Sunday, which is the Sabbath, during Lent."

Beck continued:

"Here is a group of people that have so perverted our faith and our hope and
our charity, that is a -- this is an affront to God."

Though Beck conceded that he didn't believe that the Sunday vote was
consciously chosen as a plot against God, he did find the timing apt.

"I think it's absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put the
nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday -- something our founders
would have never, ever, ever done. Out of respect for God."
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As Think Progress points
out<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/18/king-sabbath-vote/>,
a Republican-controlled Senate convened on Palm Sunday in 2005 to pass a
measure which granted a federal court the power to intervene in the
religiously-charged Terri Schiavo case.

Beck himself recently irked various religious leaders when he told
listeners<http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/14/why-does-glenn-beck-hate-jesus/?xid=huffpo-direct>
earlier
this month to "run as fast as you can" from churches and denominations that
advocated "social or economic justice" because they were really pushing
tenets of Communism and Nazism.
--
Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners
(202) 333-1880
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.co