This video showed up on my wife's facebook page. It's made by a man who was the music Pastor of her childhood church (a super conservative Baptist Church in Tampa) whom she knows personally, although she doesn't know him well, as no one in her youth church really knew her well.
Apparently the group he's heading, "Faith and Family Values Republican Club of Pasco County," has successfully attracted Rubio to their July 23 club meeting.
They want to hear from candidates:
on their beliefs about our faith in God, and our conservative family values ... we want to find out where candidates stand on ... religious liberty, sanctity of life, traditional marriage and family, protecting the innocencey of children, separation of church and state, how about morality and integrity in our political leaders, and quality education in our public schools.
link and comments below
Here's the page with the video.
On July 23, his club will be hearing from Rubio, and I'm sure it would be a really fun place to infiltrate, just to catch some nice quotes for when Crist switches to an I and takes Rubio on in the statewide. You won't be doing anything unasked for, because the video invites all to the event.
I know if I were still in Tampa, I couldn't resist.
It should be pretty juicy. These are the type who literally believe that Obama is the Antichrist.
Here's where I stand in regard to John Tracey and his club's issues of major import.
Health Care
Foreign Policy
Immigration Reform
Climate Change
religious liberty: All for it. But based on his recent facebook linking to this video in which the pre-1954 pledge of allegiance is repeated like it's some new age atheist ploy, I think we might have a differing perspective on what religious liberty means.
sanctity of life: This must be where he's going to ask about health care, since 22,000 people die every year from not having health insurance.
traditional marriage and family: I'm not sure if I'm just out of the loop, but I was completely unaware that there was any debate about the legitimacy of traditional marriages and families in Florida. Call me crazy, buy I'm pretty sure in all 50 states a traditional family is still a family, with all its rights, and traditional marriage is still a marriage, with all its rights.
separation of church and state: Agreed, this is important.
how about morality and integrity in our political leaders: Haha. That must suck to be a conservative republican religious person right now.
quality education in our public schools: Yes, definitely, we should be teaching sex ed and evolution much better than we do. Also, it would seem a little bit of atmospheric chemistry and climatology might do us well. Glad we are agreed about quality education.
Not so much to fight over. But perhaps someone will attend this meeting, take some notes, and let me know if I have misinterpreted any of John Tracey's ideals.
EDIT: I heavily edited this in an attempt to keep some parties hopefully somewhat anonymous after John Tracey responded on his blog, citing me by name, which I feel fine about, but I do wish to keep some level of anonymity for my relatives.