The Jew made sense.

[HairOfTheDog]

He doesn't defend Christianity and seems to embrace and welcome Islam. It's unsettling to me and I'm guessing many millions of Americans.

Why should a President have to defend Christianity?

I don't think your question is silly at all. I think MS doesn't wanna answer questions posed to him in response to his comments because he's afraid of tripping himself up with silly-ass answers. Too bad; back and forth is the foundation upon which discussion boards and forums were established.

Anyway, MS is wrong and easily unsettled, IMO. Not only should the President not have to defend Christianity over other religions; he should avoid doing so if he wants to be in line with the intentions of the Founding Fathers. The US isn't a religious state, FFS, it's a secular one............Thank Christ!

Early American leaders didn't make a deliberate effort to separate church and state for nothing. MS (and several extreme right-wing politicians) might wanna read up a bit on that, along with words on the subject by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, et all.

Or, maybe just take a gander at the the Treaty of Tripoli from 1797, signed by John Adams, in part stating: As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims]; and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Muslims, like Christians, are guaranteed the right to practice their religion freely in the United States. If they commit crimes, conspire against the state in the name of Islam, engage in terrorist plots or activities, or anything of that nature in the process, they should pay big time in accordance with US law (same for Christians, Jews, and people of any other faith engaged in those types of activities).