You have to wonder what part of “in the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America” offended him. 
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My guess is “humanity”. A lot of those sorts seem to be against that.
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That sign might be stuck to Gator Board or similar, which sounds impossible to tear. How evil of those libtards to not use flimsy cardboard.
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You see, by not tolerating fascism, the libruls are the real fascists. If America were truly a free country it would be openly welcoming fascism 
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Or at least be neutral, so it can ooze in silently from the sewer.
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More about how religious belief is not necessarily antagonistic to the nation as a whole:
Asked about something that people may not know about her or that is left out of her stump speech, Gillibrand returned to her faith, saying she often leaves it out of political speeches because of the strong constitutional separation of church and state. “So it’s not an issue that I talk about really outside of a worship service or a faith-based community because it can be offensive to some people, can be troubling to some people, and something that’s not shared,” she said, even though Gillibrand said faith is something that drives her personally.
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Yeah, the people who make a big deal of their faith for the sake of electability remind me of Matthew 6…
“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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I really hoped that her faith was something other than Christianity.
Every US president since Taft has been a Christian. No Jewish person had won a presidential primary until Bernie Sanders in 2016.* There can’t be more than a dozen or so Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and other total in congress, even though these faiths combined make up 25% of the electorate. Whenever someone’s running for president, they suddenly get really open about their faith, and that faith is always a bland colorless version of white protestantism,** even if those voting for them couldn’t care less. Yawn city. We can do better than this.
*Despite his name, Barry Goldwater wasn’t Jewish. He was mostly New England WASP by ethnicity, and was a practicing Episcopalian.
**When Obama was running for president, his church wasn’t white enough. His black pastor scared and confused the white middle Americans who weren’t going to vote for him anyway. So, he stopped going.
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Don’t forget John F. Kennedy, whose Catholicism was considered a major barrier to a presidential election. Yeah, he beat it, but it was definitely held against him during the campaign.
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Taft was a unitarian, so still a Christian, as far as I know…
I don’t believe we’ve ever had a non-christian president, really… although, apparently both Lincoln and Jefferson did not specify a specific faith… But Jefferson was a deist (does that count as “non-christian”?)… So maybe them 2…
And I’m totally with you on having more non-Christians in positions of power!
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Harry Byrd was cutting into the Democratic vote, enough to win several states. IIRC Kennedy wasn’t even on the ballot in some southern states… I’m not sure if that’s true, but there was so much southern animosity towards Kennedy that they ran their own candidate.
Unitarians are not only not Christian but are also not specifically theistic. Taft considered himself a theist but not a Christian.
Jefferson was definitely not Christian, and was kind of adopted by the Unitarians as one of their own even though he didn’t consider himself a Unitarian. There were other Unitarian presidents, but I can’t exactly remember who they were.
Jackson became a Christian after he became president, so he’s kind of an edge case.
Lincoln and Andrew Johnson were nominally Christian but not religious at all.
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Except that many Unitarians are and always since the 1st century have been Christians. Trinitarianism seems to be a late 4th century innovation. Sabellianism and “Dualitarianism”/“Binitarianism” also seem to predate Trinitarianism.
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Also:
Dwight Eisenhower was raised River Brethren and Jehovah’s Witness but converted to Christianity once in office. It was the only time a sitting president was baptized.
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Millard Fillmore were also Unitarian.
Nixon and Hoover were Quakers, which I guess are not considered Christian.
So, outside of four Unitarians, two Quakers, a Catholic, Jefferson, and Lincoln, the other 35 presidents have been bland white Christians. Not looking good.
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Not the same thing as Unitarian Universalism, who don’t profess a doctrine. Some UUs are Christian, but many more aren’t. Taft wasn’t.
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Correction: he wasn’t even officially running, yet people still voted for him. He won Mississippi and most of Alabama, plus a faithless elector from Oklahoma. Although one state, most of another, and a faithless elector doesn’t quite make “several”, it’s still pretty damn good for a guy who wasn’t even running. Imagine how much the south hated Kennedy for that to happen.
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Quakers are Christians.
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