Thread: McCain spouting "God's children" again

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McCain slams Cruz's call for religious test for refugees

By Alexander Bolton - 11/17/15 01:55 PM EST



Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday panned the idea of favoring Christian refugees from Syria over Muslims, delivering a rebuttal to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a GOP presidential candidate.

McCain said using a religious test on Syrian refugees, especially children, makes no sense.

“I don’t think any child, whether they are Christian or whether they are atheist or whether they are Buddhist, that we should make a distinction,” McCain said. “My belief is that all children are God’s children.”

It’s a rare example of McCain siding with President Obama, who defeated him in the 2008 presidential election, on a hot-button political topic.

Cruz and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush over the weekend said efforts to resettle refugees from Syria should focus on Christians.

"There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror,” Cruz said at a Sunday event in South Carolina, according to The Washington Post. “If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had a different religious view than they, we would have a different national security situation."

Bush on Sunday told CNN’s “State of the Union” that the U.S. “should focus our efforts as it relates to the refugees with the Christians that are being slaughtered.”

McCain’s comments Tuesday backed up Obama, who earlier this week called a religious test “shameful” and “not American.”

Bush, however, softened his stance in an interview with Bloomberg Politics on Tuesday.

“The answer to this is not to ban people from coming. The answer is to lead, to resolve the problem in Syria,” he said.

Noting public worries over the vetting of refugees, he said, “If there’s any kind of concern, we shouldn’t allow people in.

“But I don’t think we should eliminate our support for refugees,” he added.

McCain said Tuesday “there should be no litmus test” for the religious affiliation of refugees as long as they are vetted and determined not to pose a threat.

“Are we going to differentiate children by their religion? I don’t think so,” he said.

McCain blamed what he called Obama’s “failed, feckless” policy in Syria for the violence that has sent hundreds of thousands of migrants flooding into Europe.

“The decisions by the president of the United States, the commander in chief, have put us into this position where we’re fighting over refugees,” he said.





Tags: John McCain, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush

There should be no as in zero refugees from Syria or anywhere else, whether Christian or Muslim or something else. We have no money, we have no jobs, we have nothing to offer them. We don't need them, we don't want them. Tell them to go home and fight for their countries like the rest of US have had to do. Maybe they can learn through war how to get along with each other to feed themselves. Idea?!

The US is no longer a "melting pot", we're a pot boiling over. Stop this nonsense. All of it. As for you McCain, just sit down and shut up.

"Safe Zones" over there in their own country or neighboring country (that now refuses to take them because they know the terror that would infiltrate). Their language, their beliefs, etc. could continue. We can offer assistance over there.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

"Safe Zones" over there in their own country or neighboring country (that now refuses to take them because they know the terror that would infiltrate). Their language, their beliefs, etc. could continue. We can offer assistance over there.

Yes, but really, we don't need to offer assistance. Syria is an oil-rich nation like most of the Middle East countries, they are friends with Russia that can help them because Russia has a big Naval Base in Syria. We just need to stay out of it altogether except for bombing everything we can set our eyes on to destroy ISIS. But no money or troops or anything like that.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

"Safe Zones" over there in their own country or neighboring country (that now refuses to take them because they know the terror that would infiltrate). Their language, their beliefs, etc. could continue. We can offer assistance over there.

Yes, for the safe zone, but really, we don't need to offer assistance. Syria is an oil-rich nation like most of the Middle East countries, they are friends with Russia that can help them because Russia has a big Naval Base in Syria. We just need to stay out of it altogether except for bombing everything we can set our eyes on to destroy ISIS. But no money or troops or anything like that. We can't afford another war, and I don't want any of our troops risking their lives for people in other countries who would never ever return the favor.