The Reverend Al Sharpton's Recent Comments

Al Sharpton certainly was very, very vocal about the comments Don Imus made towards the women Rutger's basketball team. In fact, Sharpton was one of the leading forces which caused the termination of Don Imus. Sharpton spoke out against bigotry and said that there is no place in America for those types of comments. Really?

Then, on Monday during a debate with Christopher Hitchens, Sharpton made the following comment -

“As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don’t worry about that; that’s a temporary situation."

The one word in that statement that really stuck out to me like a sore thumb is "really". Those who really believe in God. So here Sharpton accuses Romney of not having any belief in God. If Sharpton were to look very closely at each of the candidates in this Presidential race (both Democrat and Republican) he would see that Romney's personal life and values reflect a very strong belief in God, if any of them believe and follow the values bestowed by a Supreme Being it would be Mitt Romney.

But that's beside the point. Romney's camp responded to Sharpton's comment the following way -

“It is terribly disheartening and disappointing to hear Reverend Sharpton offer such appalling comments about a fellow American’s faith. America is a nation of many faiths and common values, and bigotry toward anyone because of their beliefs is unacceptable.”

Sharpton, if you're going to speak in a bigoted way toward another individual, at least don't do it within a month of leading the march to fire a famous talk show host for doing the same.