ANTI-CHRISTIAN US REP STEVE IRA COHEN, D., TENN.
OPEN LETTER TO US REP STEVE IRA COHEN, D., TENN.
Dear Congressman Steve Ira Cohen of Tennessee ;
I called your office in Washington , but they told me they only accept emails by form, AND ONLY from your constituents in Tennessee , so I must address you through the media with this open letter. Your party (democrat), likes to make vociferous critiques of my party (republicans) regarding separation of church and state, which makes your recent act of hypocrisy and insult twice as bad. You are Jewish by faith, and I am Christian, and I am far-beyond insulted that you stood up on the House floor on September 11th, and belittled the Man who I firmly believe is the Son of God, namely Jesus Christ, or in your ancestral language Y’shua ha M’shia (Jesus the Messiah). You, in essence, compared Barack Obama with Jesus Christ stating that Jesus Christ was a “community organizer” in the manner of Senator Obama. Then, to add further insult to my party, my candidate for Vice President, Governor Sarah Palin, and me, you commented that “Pontius Pilate who crucified Jesus was a Governor,” clearly making reference to Alaska’s governor in a horrible way.
Your biography, Congressman Cohen, states that by faith you are a practicing Jew, which indicates that you do not even view Jesus Christ as the Son of God, as I do as a Christian. Therefore, by using the story of the Crucifixion to make your political classless statement, you trivialized my personal religious beliefs, disparaging all my fellow Christians and me, much less totally disrespecting Governor Palin with such a horrendous comparison. To any Christian, comparing a fellow Christian to Pontius Pilate would be even worse to us than it would be for a Christian to compare you or any of the Jewish faith or race to Adolph Hitler.
Your callous disregard for and disrespect of the strong religious views of Americans not sharing your own faith, not only demeans us, but also reflects total disrespect towards your fellow Jews, Democrats, and fellow Tennesseans. The reason for that latter comment is that I personally believe that most serious Jews, Democrats, and residents of Tennessee would be embarrassed and ashamed that a member of their “fold” would make such derisive, divisive, and disrespectful remarks that clearly show that you are lacking refinement, but are more beyond “definement.”
I demand that you publicly apologize to Governor Palin and the citizens of the United States for your classless, thoughtless, and biased attack. I hope that all the fine people of Tennessee take note of your words and when re-election comes up for you, they kick your sorry butt to the curb. Tennessee democrats and republicans alike have blessed our great nation with some of the finest statesmen in American history. You certainly are not one of them. Some from your state wish they could rise to the stature and legacy of Davy Crockett. You obviously would not even rise to the level of Jiminy Cricket.
God bless America,
Don Bendell
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Don Bendell, 61, is an author of 26 books including a number of military thrillers with over 1,500,000 copies in print worldwide and is a popular editorialist who has appeared on FOX NEWS LIVE, many national radio shows, and his editorials have been published all over the world. A 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, he and his wife also own karate schools in southern Colorado . A 60% disabled vet, Don served as an officer in 4 Special Forces Groups, including a 1968-1969 tour on an A-team in Vietnam as well as in the Top Secret Phoenix Program and has offspring serving in Special Forces now. He lives in Florence , Colorado . Write him at don@donbendell.com .
