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“Each of us believes the other to be in theological error. “I am no more unbiased ‘when it comes to Islam’ than is an Imam ‘when it comes to Christianity.’ Each of us accepts the authority of our faith,” Rizzo emailed me. I asked Rizzo whether these comments show a bias against Islam and put him in the best position to review the party’s social media accounts. But since most of this controversy is about Islam, I’ll stick to those tweets. ” Rizzo also has views on gay and transgender people that are today out of the mainstream for some Republicans. And, in response to an Ohio billboard in 2014 that said Jesus is a Muslim, he said that “God will deal w/Islam the Great White. #theKingwins.” (For context on the gate and theories on why it was sealed, read this). In 2015, he accused President Obama of, among other things, “ Islamic apologetics.” In 2013 - presumably in response to the Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s contemporaneous anti-gay comments - Rizzo tweeted “When was the last time an interviewer asked a celebrity muslim what they think about sodomy? Wonder what would happen? #UniverseWouldImplode.” In 2012, showing a picture of a historic and religiously-significant gate in Jerusalem, he tweeted “The East Gate! Jesus WILL walk through it even though the muslims sealed it thinking they could stop him. Rizzo has a long Twitter history, so I searched for some keywords in his timeline.
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(How he retweeted the eradication meme accidentally, I can’t fathom.) And last week the Sussex County GOP tapped Pastor Phil Rizzo of City Baptist Church in Hoboken to review the party’s social media accounts to “ensure that they reflect the policies of the Republican Party and the traditional values that we stand for.” Scanlan did apologize Monday after a defiant statement last week, saying he didn’t carefully review everything he re-tweeted. It's noteworthy that I haven't seen a single elected Republican or party official call for Scanlan’s removal as chair after he shared a meme literally calling for a religion to be eradicated from the United States. The one that really sticks out to me was a retweet of a meme that called Islam a “cult” and said “America must eradicate Islam from every town, city, county and state in our homeland!” You’ve probably read about Sussex County GOP Chairman Jerry Scanlan’s tweetsthrough the party’s official account.