"Singapore warns against mixing politics and religion"

[Strong Atheist]

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Singapore's parliament in 2007 legalised oral and anal sex between heterosexual couples, which had been banned under a law dating back to British colonial days, but retained a section that criminalises sex between men.

Wong said the government was worried about the controversy which erupted after a group of conservative Christians engineered a leadership change in Singapore's biggest women's organisation, AWARE.

The Christian group was opposed to what they said was AWARE's bias for greater homosexual rights, but AWARE's former leaders mounted a counter-attack that allowed them to recapture power after a war of words in the media.

...sounds familiar, Joe...

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20090515-141688.html

[rrneck]

1. Is it just me

or does it seem that political hardball, backbiting, backstabbing, and power mongering begins within the religious organization itself and then spreads throughout the body politic like a virus from a factory farm?

[juno jones]

2. I think so.

Check out a term: 'steeplejacking'.

A viral sect (they act like one according to evidence) gets into a postition of leadership within a church. They sell all their minions their revised version of non-christianity who then go act it out, then eventually you have a much larger phenomenon.

dogemperor 2 dailykos: "Seven Mountains" and the "Joel's Army" plan for takeover

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/165650/170

Also Bruce Wilson of Talk2action (aka troutfishing @ dailykos) has numerous postings about dominionism and it's role in 'steeplejacking'.

Eye-opening and very scary.