Filibuster fight reflects anti-Christian bigotry

[theHandpuppet]

Not totally unexpected from the Bushreich's favorite daily rag, but this is a bit extreme even for the Zinzinnati Enquirer...

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050519/COL05/505190326

Filibuster fight reflects anti-Christian bigotry
By Peter Bronson
Enquirer staff writer


At Solid Rock Church in Monroe on Sunday, Pastor Lawrence Bishop was sayin' it. Punctuated by scattered shouts of "Amen" and "Thank you, Jesus," he jerked his right leg like he was kick-starting a Harley Sportster, and shouted to the packed house of God: "Have you seen Jesus lately?"

It's the kind of church that would give seizures to the ACLU and make People for the (un)American Way choke on their French chardonnay.

If they could ever force themselves past the Paul Bunyan Jesus that reaches toward heaven alongside the whooshing traffic of Interstate 75, and actually visit Solid Rock, bigots who slander the "Christian right" would get an 800-watt shock.

(snip)

It's too bad the ACLU crowd missed it last Sunday, because Pastor Bishop had a message for them. He talked about how Democrats are threatening filibusters to block President Bush's judicial nominees. "They don't want people like us to serve on the courts," he said....

(snip)

Pastor Bishop is Solid Rock right. The filibuster is being used to keep Christians off the courts.

E-mail [e-mail] or call [phone].

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Damn, our secret master plan has been revealed.

[Bridget Burke]

2. Concerned Women for America: One of the Sources....

The filibuster has a long history, but the Democrats are abusing it in their current maneuvering in the Senate –– a small handful of minority party senators are blocking the will of the majority; they are using their personal ideology to grind democracy to a halt.

The Democratic senators dont seem to realize that “to the victor go the spoils” and that the losing party is not in control. Sadly, some of the winning Republicans havent yet realized, either, that the winning team (that’s the key word) gets to call the shots.

Several of President Bushs nominees for federal appeals and district courts have been waiting for FOUR YEARS for their nominations to have a vote in the Senate. These are distinguished Americans –– Janice Rogers Brown got 76 percent of the vote on her election to the California Supreme Court.

www.cwfa.org/articles/8167/BLI/reports/index.htm

You can always depend on CWA to broadcast the latest Right Wing Talking Points. The organization was founded by Tim & Beverly LaHaye to fight the Equal Rights Amendment. Tim was one of the founders of Christian Reconstructionism; he retreated a bit from public life after some questionable deals but has rebounded as co-author of the "Left Behind" books. Beverly has made a career out of telling other women to abandon careers & stay home.

www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5601&abbr=cs_

Of course, most of the judicial candidates are questionable because they are corporate tools--not because of "values."

[roseBudd]

3. Please flood this newspaper with well reasoned complaints...

pointing out the many fallacies in this column.

Yesterday the editorial board of this paper published an editorial suggesting the beloved UC football coach Bob Huggins should go. The reaction was swift and vehement AND this newspaper noticed, publishing 10 LTTEs on just this issue in a space not normally reserved for LTTEs.

Send your LTTEs (if you are from SW OH) to [e-mail] and if not from SW OH directly to the editorial board and Bronson's boss:

Ray Cooklis Assistant editorial page editor: guest columns 513-768-8525 [e-mail]
Tony Lang Editorial writer: Kentucky issues 859-578-5569 [e-mail]
Byron McCauley Deputy editorial page editor 513-768-8473 [e-mail]
Sharon Morgan Editorial page assistant: Letters to the editor 513-768-8359 [e-mail]
Krista Ramsey Editorial writer: Education, children's issues 513-768-8527 [e-mail]
David Wells Assistant Managing Editor: Editorial page 513-768-8310 [e-mail]

To write a 400 word your voices column on this or other progressive issues (SW OH residents), contact:

Ray Cooklis Assistant editorial page editor: guest columns 513-768-8525 [e-mail]


FYI asshat Bronson enjoys all the complaints, but I would CC him so he sees the complaints his bosses get.

[The Icon Painter]

4. Parody?

This is a joke - like Landover Baptist Church - right? This has to be the newspaper humour columnist. We are meant to laugh at this?

[theHandpuppet]

5. No, this is not a joke

You apparently aren't familiar with the Cincinnati Enquirer, rag of the red heartland.

Edited to add: Here's the paper's own profile of Mr Bronson, regular columnist who penned the editorial: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=col05 and a quote from Mr Bronson: ""Conservatives in the media are about as common as Christians at an ACLU convention, but I like to go against the current."

[trogdor]

24. Ohio is like California in a way.

The further south you go, the more it resembles its southern neighbor, in Ohio's case, it would be eastern Kentucky.

[roseBudd]

6. While the tortured metaphors are certainly laughable, no this is not a ...

joke.

Please complain now and send it to all your contacts. We need to care as much about this as a lot of people apparently care about the Univesity of Cincinnati basketball program. See my post above for contact info and please CC all of them.

[zanne]

7. I forgot all about the Chardonnay!

I'll put it on the grocery list right away. (Does it come in a box?)

[GOPFighter]

8. Talk about bigotry!

"...and make People for the (un)American Way choke on their French chardonnay."

And then there is the even scarier words coming from the pulpit of a tax-exempt church: Pastor Bishop had a message for them. He talked about how Democrats are threatening filibusters to block President Bush's judicial nominees. "They don't want people like us to serve on the courts," he said...

Damn right we don't want people like them serving on the courts!

[aion]

9. So none of the already-confirmed are Christians? Bull$hit

Using this sort of logic, are we supposed to believe that the nearly 200 that have been confirmed already are NOT christians? I mean, if there is such an obviously anti-christian bias here, then we should expect that none of the ones which were rushed through are christians.

Or, to put it another way, perhaps... Are we supposed to believe that these 7 or 8 who are disputed are so obviously more-Christian than the rest?

[theHandpuppet]

10. I'm also sure the ACLU would be interested to know...

... that their organization is bereft of Christians.

[Changenow]

11. Filibuster fight reflects anti-Christian bigotry

At Solid Rock Church in Monroe on Sunday, Pastor Lawrence Bishop was sayin' it. Punctuated by scattered shouts of "Amen" and "Thank you, Jesus," he jerked his right leg like he was kick-starting a Harley Sportster, and shouted to the packed house of God: "Have you seen Jesus lately?"

It's the kind of church that would give seizures to the ACLU and make People for the (un)American Way choke on their French chardonnay.

If they could ever force themselves past the Paul Bunyan Jesus that reaches toward heaven alongside the whooshing traffic of Interstate 75, and actually visit Solid Rock, bigots who slander the "Christian right" would get an 800-watt shock.

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050519/COL05/505190326/1004

This is a news story. God help us all.

[bertha katzenengel]

12. Reads more like a column to me. Not a news story.

:shrug:

[saltpoint]

13. For all the good it will do --

-- I just sent a letter to the reporter, "pbronson":

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pbronson:

This is not news. It's commentary.

Actually it's propaganda.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

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That newspaper is not known for its fair and incisive reporting.

[davidinalameda]

14. this is not a news story

it's a column

Pastor Bishop is Solid Rock right. The filibuster is being used to keep Christians off the courts

[DanCa]

15. Is there any way to turn this around

I got parkinsons bush judges are anti cure with stem cell. I am also pro choice bush judges are anti choice christians . Bush judges are also gay bashers. Surely there must be a way to turn the "bigot" card around on them. And this time it would be real.

[KamaAina]

16. It is a column, but it still reeks

some gratuitous French-bashing, a slap at Dems' integration, yet another attempt to cast the Founders as fundie Fristian morans, and more.

Oh, by the way, electric shock is measured in volts, not "800 watts", nimrod. Oh, right, fundies don't believe in science...

[kaygore]

17. It's an opinion piece

The last line is interesting:
"Pastor Bishop is Solid Rock right. The filibuster is being used to keep Christians off the courts."

To my knowledge, except for a few jews and an agnostic or two, all judges are Christians. Do we have any Muslim or Buddhist judges? California, maybe.

Or, does he mean "Christian" as in narrow-minded, Kool-Aiding drinking fools.

In that case, there may be a few but they would have been elected in narrow-minded, Kool-Aid-drinking juristictions.

You know if people are dumb enough to believe this and to tolerate their churches being used for political ends, then I guess they deserve what they will get.

Too sad, really, that we may all have to suffer for this few.

[EVDebs]

18. These pre-tribulation 'futurists' are in for a rude awakening !

Please read Steven Wohlberg's End Times Delusions and see how a Jesuit eschatology from the 16th Century Counter-Reformation has overtaken many supposedly Protestant denomination views of the Second Coming.

A secret pre-tribulation rapture isn't Biblically correct. They just don't know it....yet.

[Solly Mack]

19. I find it apropos that the word "Advertisement" is on that 'news' article

[theHandpuppet]

20. This is a dupe

I posted this same article this morning on this forum.

[Bridget Burke]

21. I ask the Congregation to open the CWA book one more time....

That is, the old, tired Concerned Women for America site, founded by Bev & Tim LaHaye, Dominionist heros. The Wellspring of much of the tripe spewed by brain-dead columnists & writers of letters to the editor. (Mixed metaphor....)

The filibuster has a long history, but the Democrats are abusing it in their current maneuvering in the Senate –– a small handful of minority party senators are blocking the will of the majority; they are using their personal ideology to grind democracy to a halt.

The Democratic senators don't seem to realize that“to the victor go the spoils” and that the losing party is not in control. Sadly, some of the winning Republicans havent yet realized, either, that the winning team (thats the key word) gets to call the shots.

Several of President Bush's nominees for federal appeals and district courts have been waiting for FOUR YEARS for their nominations to have a vote in the Senate. These are distinguished Americans –– Janice Rogers Brown got 76 percent of the vote on her election to the California Supreme Court.

www.beverlylahayeinstitute.org/articledisplay.asp?id=8167&department=BLI&categoryid=reports

The only blocked nominee I know much about is Texas's Own Priscilla Owen. She's not being blocked because of her religion, but because she's a corporate tool. And not that great a legal mind....

[Lindacooks]

22. All you have to say to those nut jobs is:

so all of the judges who have been confirmed in the last 4 years are NOT Christian??

[roseBudd]

23. Please flood this so-called newspaper with complaints...

This is more important than University of Cincinnati Bearcats basketball coach Bob Huggins.

Send your LTTEs (if you are from SW OH) to [e-mail] and if not from SW OH directly to the editorial board and Bronson's boss:

Ray Cooklis Assistant editorial page editor: guest columns 513-768-8525 [e-mail]
Tony Lang Editorial writer: Kentucky issues 859-578-5569 [e-mail]
Byron McCauley Deputy editorial page editor 513-768-8473 [e-mail]
Sharon Morgan Editorial page assistant: Letters to the editor 513-768-8359 [e-mail]
Krista Ramsey Editorial writer: Education, children's issues 513-768-8527 [e-mail]
David Wells Assistant Managing Editor: Editorial page 513-768-8310 [e-mail]

To write a 400 word your voices column on this or other progressive issues (SW OH residents), contact:

Ray Cooklis Assistant editorial page editor: guest columns 513-768-8525 [e-mail]

[wallwriter]

25. Because judges are arbiters of the Constitution, not the bible.

And these people aren't even good arbiters of the bible...