Today in GOP Extremism: Martin Says Obama & Carnahan Will Take Away Freedom "To Find The Lord"

UPDATE: TPM picks up the story.

Speaking on the Gina Loudon radio program this afternoon, Congressional candidate Ed Martin told listeners that "we have to be very, very aware" of policies pursued by Barack Obama and Russ Carnahan that will "take away" the freedom to be a Christian. 

MARTIN: One thing I like to say is: America is great, not because of our genetics. We're great because we created a place and space where people can be free. And they can choose Christ, they can choose to be faithful.  They can worship, and they find their way to the Lord. And -- or some of them don't. We sure want them all to, but some of them don't.

And part of that freedom -- when you take a government and you impose, and take away all your choices. One of the choices you take away is to find the Lord.  And find your savior. 

And that's one of the things that's most destructive about the growth of government. It's this taking away that freedom. The freedom -- the ultimate freedom, to find your salvation, to get your salvation. And to find Christ, for me and you.

And I think that's one of the things that we have to be very, very aware of that the Obama Administration and Congressman Carnahan are doing to us.

LOUDON: Very well said.

This is pure lunacy, and as a person of faith, I find this incredibly offensive and outrageous. It's too insane for a response, really.  But he said. 

Martin doesn't explain which policies supported by Obama and Carnahan "take away all your choices" to be a Christian or find any other religion, perhaps because there aren't any.  Maybe it's health care reform that keeps people from Jesus?  Or unemployment benefits?  Whatever they are, "we have to be very, very aware" of them anyway. 

Listen to the full exchange between Martin and Loudon here.

Martin's most recent comments on KSJL are reminiscent of ones he made to a Missouri Roundtable for Life gathering early in 2009 in which he said that Secretary of State Robin Carnahan is "the devil."

If you don't know this, you need to know this one thing: The Secretary of State in Missouri is the most anti-life, most obstructionist, most unpleasant, and one of the smartest people in public life in America right now.

She is very, very devious. She does -- with a, with a clever hand -- she does the devil's work [inaudible]. It is easy when you see someone who is a terribly unpleasant, you know, nasty, hateful person, you say, "Well the devil's got a hold of that person."

This woman, the devil, she's figured out how to really damage our efforts to do amendments to the Constitution, to do initiatives for other conservative, good government things.  I mean, she will, she does everything for one thing in mind: politics of the left, and her own advancement.