Congratulations to Senate President Pro Tempore David McBride, D-New Castle, who publicly rebuked the suit of a man state Sen. Dave Lawson, R-Marydel, for Lawson’s disgusting and vile comments on the Senate floor.
“I have never been of the mind to censure the words of other members, but I also believe deeply that words have consequences,” McBride said, reading aloud from a statement. “To criticize the sacred prayer of another religion from the floor of the Senate strikes me as antithetical to everything we ought to stand for as lawmakers.”
McBride went on to say that Muslims serve in the military and as police and are doctors, professors and teachers.
“I am personally offended that our guests from the Muslim community and anyone else here in the chamber today would feel anything less than welcomed with opened arms,” McBride said. “And for our guests today to be branded as anti-American when our First Amendment of our country’s Constitution explicitly guarantees the freedom of religion is both ironic and deeply sad to me.”
Here’s what the shit-stain of a politician said earlier.
“We just heard from the Quran, which calls for our very demise,” Lawson said after a Muslim duo gave the invocation, including a passage from their holy text. “I fought for this country, not to be damned by someone that comes in here and prays to their God for our demise. I think that’s despicable.”
And when you act like an asshole, it’s always good to double-down on your ignorance.
Afterward, Lawson said he thought McBride was “ignorant to what’s going on.”
He said the Quran includes passages about killing “infidels” and pointed to some majority-Muslim countries that restrict women’s rights and persecute Christians, among other evils.
Oh, and John Carney’s BFF, Bonini, who walked out with Lawson during the Muslim prayer had this say:
“Anybody who knows Dave knows that there is not an ounce of hate in him,” he said. “There is not an an ounce of hate in me either.”
Still, Bonini said, “Religious freedom is not a one-way street; it is a busy intersection.”
“You have a right to pray, as do I,” Bonini said after McBride’s response. “And I have a right to be offended by what you believe, just as you have a right to be offended by what I believe.”
Bonini said neither his nor Lawson’s walkout nor their comments were intended to “be specifically disrespectful to the people who are here.”
Mother fuckers.