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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChristian group ‘investigating’ family and staff of 2016 candidates to expose gay sympathizers
A Evangelical Christian organization has called on right-leaning pastors to investigate the family and staff of U.S. presidential candidates in order to expose anyone who is secretly gay or who supports LGBT rights.
The Washington Examiners Paul Bedard reported on Monday that David Lanes American Renewal Project had asked 100,000 pastors that it was working with to mobilize Christian voters to also dig up dirt on people connected to presidential candidates.
As the race begins in the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary, Evangelicals have no choice but to investigate which consultants and operatives are behind each of the candidates; decisions about personnel provide evidences about policy, Lane wrote in a column for Western Journalism last week.
Lane pointed out that evangelicals had been disappointed when Ken Mehlman revealed he was gay after stepping down as the chairman of the Republican National Committee. And he suggested that George W. Bush would have been disqualified if Christian voters had known that his wife, Laura Bush, would hint at support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights after the president left office.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/christian-group-investigating-family-and-staff-of-2016-candidates-to-expose-gay-sympathizers/
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)brooklynite
(94,598 posts)...in case some pastor endorses the "wrong" candidate?
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)"Turn your friends in, turn your neighbors in, turn your parents in, turn your kids in! it's the patriotic thing to do."
Fuck the fundys with a meat hook.
Rex
(65,616 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)that is the only response possible.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Holy-insane people are dangerous no matter what the name of their God is or how far they have to go to force their moral code onto others.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)American Renewal Project is working with 100,000 pastors to push 80 million evangelicals and 40 million Catholics who typically don't vote to the polls in 2016 to elect a conservative Republican.
They're the American Taliban pushing their Sharia Law on all of us. Tax the churches and get their damn holy book out of our government!!
It's interesting that Raw story cut abortion out of the headline. The war against women needs attention, too, people.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)TAX the BUSINESSES OWNED by the CHURCHES." - Frank Zappa
Initech
(100,081 posts)Or people who have way too much free time on their hands.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Everyone, including typical republicans, need to witness and stop denying the hatefullness and hypocrisy of far-right evangelicals. Then Repubs can put them on "ignore" also.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)They don't have to look at the Democrats, their gay and gay friendly staffers are OUT.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)See this is what the teahaddists mean when they say "take back our country! "
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)David Berzins: What's a Little Genocide Between F :
Oh hell no.....
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
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beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Watch How Rand Paul And Ted Cruz Have Been Trying To Woo The Anti-Gay Religious Right
Here at The New Civil Rights Movement, we've worked hard to ensure our readers understand just how deep the anti-gay Christian right is embedded into Republican politics. There are many people who tirelessly work behind the scenes, and are very generously funded by anti-gay hate groups like the American Family Association and the Family Research Council, to ensure your civil rights to marriage and equality are denied. Tea Party Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are two of the greatest beneficiaries of this financial, electoral, and spiritual support.
David Lane, whom we have profiled so extensively he's blocked us on Twitter, is one of those who works behind the scenes. He's been bought and paid for by the certified anti-gay hate group American Family Association. Lane is the guy people like Cruz and Paul and Texas Governor Rick Perry call when they're vying for the GOP presidential nomination, to endear them with Americas Evangelicals. His m.o. is to arrange a trip to Israel -- which he's done for all three right-wing religious conservatives -- and then take them to Iowa to meet with the evangelical crowd. Lane's stamp of approval is a big deal.
So is his view of the LGBT community. Regular readers will remember well Lane's vicious anti-gay hate speech, in the form of a World Net Daily op-ed. Where are the champions of Christ to save the nation from the pagan onslaught imposing homosexual marriage, homosexual scouts, 60 million babies done to death by abortion and red ink as far as the eye can see on America?, Lane, head of the AFAs American Renewal Project asked in an op-ed so inflammatory even WND was forced to pull it. Who will wage war for the Soul of America and trust the living God to deliver the pagan gods into our hands and restore America to her Judeo-Christian heritage and re-establish a Christian culture? Today, Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody published a story and this video about the recent Pastors and Pews summit in Iowa. It's stunning. "First there was the removal of the Bible from public schools; then there was the legalization of abortion. And just last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in support of same-sex marriage," Brody writes:
All those gathered - including possible presidential contenders Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas - agree that boldness is needed. "The book of Hosea tells us, 'My people parish for a lack of knowledge," Sen. Cruz told the Pastors and Pews audience. "Edwin Burke put the points a little differently when he said, 'The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.'" Sen. Paul agreed. "We must do something our world often tells us not to do: we must seek God, for our redemption and salvation, for our country's revival," Paul said. That's what these pastors pray for above politics: spiritual revival. "Father, we're again in need of another Great Awakening," one pastor prayed. The first Great Awakening began in the 1700s, led by pastors like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield. In the following century, a second revival saw large camp meetings spread like wildfire. Is there a third Great Awakening around the corner? Some of that doubt could be due to events over the last 50 years that have taken aim at Christian principles. In 1963 public school prayer ended, and a decade later, abortion was legalized. Now there seems to be a cultural acceptance of homosexual marriage.
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