Texas Gay Foes Savor Victory, Plot Next Move

[kweerwolf]

Conservative church leaders, buoyed by overwhelming passage of a state amendment banning gay marriage in Texas, now ponder their next show of political strength.

The ban, which received support from pulpits across the state, rolled to an easy victory by a 3-to-1 margin Tuesday.

"If that becomes a trend, the evangelical community becomes the largest political voice not only in the state of Texas, but America," said the Rev. Ryan Rush, senior pastor of Bannockburn Baptist Church in Austin. "I think that's a positive thing because evangelical Christians stand for what's right."

In the Texas capital, a liberal bastion, the amendment lost by a large margin. But Rush could take heart that statewide the measure passed 76 percent to 24 percent.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/11/110905txFolo.htm

[Fovea]

1. They will have a

'bring back lynchin' amendment next.

[nickyt]

2. Oh, yummy, they have a nice email list of their staff! I'm fixin' to send

'em all the Scanlon memo...my subject line says "Matthew 26:46 "See--My betrayer is near".

Consider one memo highlighted in a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx., sent the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to describe his strategy for protecting the tribe's gambling business. In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives:


Mobilization

We plan to use three forms of communications to mobilize and win these battles. Phones, mail and Christian radio. We believe that if you are on TV you are generally losing battles like this. Our mission is to get specifically selected groups of individuals to the polls to speak out AGAINST something.

To that end, your money is best spent finding them and communicating with them on using the modes that they are most likely to respond to. Simply put we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them. The wackos get their information from the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees. (Oct. 2001)

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/03/abramoff/index_np.html

http://indian.senate.gov/2005hrgs/110205hrg/110205exhibits.pdf

http://www.chris-floyd.com/jack/ page 119 "Mobilization"

[kevinbgoode]

5. Ok...this is where we all start studying up and identifying

which stations operate without taxes (if any) and file complaints that they are not operating in the public interest whenever any licenses come up for ANY of them. Our first contention is that they claim to be non-denominational, but do not seem to represent any legitimate real christian group. Then we get ads from MCC and Church of Christ, which they'll reject, of course...

Then we go on our own attack. We might have a tiny network, but it's time to ridicule them for hours on end as well. No longer are they christians, just because they CLAIM to be - these are cults. How hard is it to draw comparisons with Phelps and that Jim Jones character with the kool-aid?

Then we accuse them of being cover organizations for sexual perversity...and read daily the names of fundies who have been caught sexually abusing spouses, children and engaging in "homosexual" relationships. It would be relatively easy to draw comparisons between the worst behavior of wingnut supporters and these leaders, don't you think? I mean, how hard would it be to question why they don't have ex-pedophile camps? Could it be because their practices support such activity?

[msongs]

3. death camps next? nt

[kweerwolf]

4. Nah ... they'll call them "ex-gay camps" ...

... They just won't bother to publicize that they believe "the only REAL ex-gay is a dead gay."