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Archae

(46,335 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:00 PM Mar 2015

Inevitable scandal brewing...

One or both of these guys will be outed when they are caught with a "Rentboy" like George Reker.

Right-Wing Pastor: 'Secular Humanist Caliphate' & 'Militant Homofascism' Taking Over America

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Monday, 3/16/2015 11:41 am

This weekend’s Awakening conference, an annual event hosted by the Religious Right legal group Liberty Counsel and attended by any number of far-right activists and a few GOP presidential candidates, was dominated by the theme that the Christian Right is in a spiritual war against a satanic coalition of LGBT rights, Islam and progressivism. Nobody summed it up quite as well as Ken Graves, a pastor from Bangor, Maine, who declared to the audience sitting in a megachurch in Orlando that they were in a fight against “militant homofascism” that “seeks to take over our land and make it Sodom” and secular humanists who, in conjunction with militant Islam, want to “destroy everything we have” and establish a “secular humanist caliphate.” Evoking Seven Mountains dominionism, the doctrine that seeks to deliver control of the “seven mountains” of society to conservative Christians, Graves declared that it is the secular humanists who now “have every major institution.” He then pulled a Bible out of his pocket and bellowed to the crowd: “Why should we be intimidated if what has been placed in our hands is the very word of God?”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-pastor-secular-humanist-caliphate-militant-homofascism-taking-over-america#sthash.AIBJ6DnV.dpuf

Right Wing 'Army' Will Save Texas From 'Public Approval And Acceptance To Homosexual Activity'

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 3/16/2015 11:17 am

Next Monday, March 23rd, Conservative Republicans of Texas, with the support of over 100 state officials, will host a Defense of Texas Marriage Amendment Rally outside the state capitol at which Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore will be the keynote speaker. Last week, the organization's president, radical right-wing activist Steven Hotze, released a video calling for activists to "join our army to protect biblical marriage" and prevent Texas from having "to grant public approval and acceptance to homosexual activity." "It's time for Christians and conservatives to draw a line in the sand and to rise up and take a stand for God's truth about marriage," Hotze said. "A fierce battle for the soul of Texas has begun. The liberals and their pro-homosexual allies want to force Texans to redefine marriage and to accept homosexual mirage [sic] as morally right. The idea that homosexuals could be married is a mirage. It is contrary to God's moral order. It's a counterfeit. It's a fake. It's a lie."

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-army-will-save-texas-public-approval-and-acceptance-homosexual-activity#sthash.rmuhJYVE.dpuf

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Inevitable scandal brewing... (Original Post) Archae Mar 2015 OP
I hope it is a big name yeoman6987 Mar 2015 #1
It's possible they are both just sincere assholes el_bryanto Mar 2015 #2
"Decency" crusades are always--no exceptions--distractions. Orsino Mar 2015 #3
Secular Humanist and Caliphate don't really seem to go together... Oktober Mar 2015 #4
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. I hope it is a big name
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:12 PM
Mar 2015

Not some obscure pastor we never heard of. Too many scandals end up ho hum. I hope this is big.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
2. It's possible they are both just sincere assholes
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:16 PM
Mar 2015

I don't know about the theory that many of the most virulent homophobes are closet homsexuals.

Bryant

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
3. "Decency" crusades are always--no exceptions--distractions.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:17 PM
Mar 2015

Doesn't mean these guys are Ted Haggards. They might be heterosexual grifters.

 

Oktober

(1,488 posts)
4. Secular Humanist and Caliphate don't really seem to go together...
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:45 PM
Mar 2015

I've always wanted to nail one of these nutters down and force them to explain this weirdness...

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