Word: religion
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Amid a controversy over statements he made about organized religion and about women in this month's issue of Playboy magazine, Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura continues his cross-county public relations swing with a lengthy visit to Harvard today...
Responding to the magazine's question about regulating prostitution, Ventura lashed out against organized religion...
...Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business," he said...
Asked this Sunday by NBC's Tim Russert as to how his comments would play to the nearly 3 million Minnesotans who are religious, Ventura said "...being weak-minded is not necessarily a detriment, Tim. It just means that you have a weakness and, therefore, you go to organized religion to help strengthen yourself...
Before this race is over, voters may well see through Bush's posturing. Even if they don't, there is a danger in running as an anti-politician. It only takes a couple of Jesse Venturas bashing organized religion to remind us why we've been electing those loathsome politicians to office all these years in the first place. And as columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. '73 wrote yesterday, Ventura's act is already wearing thin. By the time Ventura-style brashness no longer seems like such a smart political move, will it be too late for Bush to change gears...