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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Brad Pitt's Mom Anti-Obama Letter Receives National Attention

Jane Pitt, mother of Actor Brad Pitt, sent an anti-Obama letter to her local newspaper and is now getting death threats. She is, however, getting support from Angelina Jolie's father, Jon Voight.

Jon Voight, father of Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, has come out in defence of actor Brad Pitt's mother, Jane Pitt, who recently made national headlines with a letter to the editor of the Springfield, Mo. News-Leader. According to the UK Daily Mail, Pitt has now been frightened into silence because of death threats she's received in response to her letter to the editor.  In the letter, Pitt referred to President Barack Obama as a "liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage" and encouraged fellow Christians not to vote against Romney just because he is a Mormon. (Read Pitt's full letter here.) Pitt's letter was in response to a June opinion piece by Richard Stoecker in which he wrote, "The conscience of many…

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