Vision America: The War Against Christians

[BR_Parkway]

Here we go again, more stirring up their base to keep themselves in power.

http://www.visionamerica.us/site/PageServer

Confirmed speakers include:

Senator Sam Brownback

Senator John Cornyn

Congressman Tom DeLay

Congressman Todd Akin

Congressman Louis Gohmert

Rick Scarborough

Phyllis Schlafly

Alan Keyes

Gary Bauer

Janet Parshall


Panels Include:

The Gay Agenda: America Won't Be Happy

The ACLU And Radical Secularism: Driving God From The Public Square

Hollywood: Christians Through A Distorted Lens

Jews Confront The War On Christians

The Judiciary: Overruling God

The Media: Megaphone For Anti-Faith Values

Taking Our Faith To The Ballot Box

[Warpy]

1. It should be "Radical Calvinists: Our War against Everybody Else"

good gawd, not a real Christian among them! They're all rich worshipping, poor criminalizing, woman demonizing, stingy, intolerant assholes.

Christians ought to sue them for copyright infringement.

[toddaa]

12. No real Christians

If you keep purging each other from the roll of "Real Christians(tm)" there won't be any of you left.

[Dr.Phool]

2. How much would you have to pay someone

To actually sit through that lineup?

[BR_Parkway]

10. LOL - read that list again - it's the money making crowd, they charge

admission! Everything the Pharisees do is designed to make them money or increase their power. All that God shit is just for the masses.

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[Initech]

3. Wow. Sounds like the same people behind "Justice Sunday".

Also sounds like the exact same agenda behind "Justice Sunday".

[salvorhardin]

11. It does, doesn't it?

But alas, no, it's a different set of scary fundie nutcases. The group behind Justice Sunday is the Family Research Council founded by James Dobson and is much older, dating back to 1981. In the late 1980s they became a division of Dobson's Focus on the Family but after some IRS trouble they were split back into two separate organizations. It was at a FRC function where Dobson made his famous asinine remark about Spongebob Squarepants.

[IsItJustMe]

4. I am so tired of hearing folks talk about how they are being crucified in

this country when facts suggest quit the opposite.

In psychological terms I think they call it paranoid and detached from reality.

[shance]

5. Wow. The Professional Haters Forum. They specialize in hating

everyone who's not White, Racist, Dishonest, Sexist, Supremist, and just overall mean-spirited all the way around.

Looks like one good time.

[salvorhardin]

6. Interesting history

The Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration is a conservative, religious organization formed in early 2005 that runs the website StopActivistJudges.org.

The council is descended from the Dallas Group. It is currently chaired by Rick Scarborough In April 2005, Scarborough was quoted as saying that his group was needed because of, "Activist judges...(whose) distortions of the Constitution have brought us abortion-on-demand, purged religious symbols from public places, made our schools faith-free zones, created a so-called right to homosexual sodomy and threatened 'one nation under God' in the pledge of allegiance. Now, judges seem intent on imposing same-sex marriage by fiat." <1> According to the group's website, "Each progressive step down the road to the secularization of America has come not through a referendum of the people, or an act of their elected representatives, but rather at the stroke of a judge’s pen."<2>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian_Council_for_Constitutional_Restoration

Here's a little more history from a google cached page (tinyURL encoded link):

The impetus for the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration was the removal of Roy Moore, former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, because he refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judiciary Building. For many of us, this was a three-alarm wake-up call in the Culture War.

In February of 2004, over 60 heads of major ministries, churches and pro-family groups gathered in Dallas, Texas at the invitation of Vision America and its founder and President, Rick Scarborough. The meeting was called to discuss the implications of the removal of Chief Justice Moore for his refusal to cease acknowledging God. Keynote addresses by Chief Moore and Ambassador Alan Keyes set the tone for the two-day summit.

At the conclusion, attendees agreed to continue communicating by periodic conference calls and appointed a Steering Committee to formulate a strategy to confront the growing assault on faith by an ever over-reaching judiciary. We adopted the name “The Dallas Group” for communication purposes. In November the Steering Committee recommended that a second meeting be held in Orlando, Florida, for the purpose of formally organizing a coalition of ministries and organizations to confront the growing menace of judicial activism.
http://tinyurl.com/odvyr

They got their start opposing the removal of Roy Moore.

[Dr. Jones]

7. Tom DeLay?

THE Tom DeLay? Shouldn't he be sitting in a jail cell in Texas? Where's the damn justice?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. War, really?

Have they blown up any churches yet?

Well..not counting the ones in Alabama.

[salvorhardin]

9. More about Rick Scarborough, the man behind this group

A passion for mixing religion, politics
Former Pearland pastor grabs the national spotlight with judicial filibuster fight

In 1992, Scarborough went to a high school talk on AIDS awareness and was appalled. The speaker, a young woman with AIDS, blew up a condom like a balloon and, Scarborough recalled, gave "graphic descriptions on every kind of sex act there was."

Scarborough took action, preaching against the speech at his church and complaining to the school board, on which, he was embarrassed to realize, not a single member of his congregation served.

Within two years, Scarborough had worked to elect members of his flock as the majorities of the Pearland school board and City Council. The school principal who brought in the offending speaker was soon replaced.

Scarborough himself was enmeshed in controversy. Some church members left First Baptist over his political activities, and Scarborough's ties to city officials proved divisive to the community at large. He was closely aligned with then-City Manager Paul Grohman, a lightning rod who was accused of threatening to shoot the city attorney and eventually was fired by the City Council.

Now Scarborough has turned his passion for mixing religion and politics to the national stage.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2005_3871955

This passage is also of interest:

Scarborough has a contentious history with David R. Currie, the executive director of Texas Baptists Committed, an anti-fundamentalist group that won a war with Scarborough over the direction of the Texas Baptist General Convention. Scarborough ran for the convention's presidency in 1996 and lost to a more moderate candidate. He was a key figure two years later when conservatives left the group to form their own convention.

Scarborough said recently that he regrets the rift with moderate Baptists because he would like to "get men on both sides of that divide involved" in his new cause.

"I think he's a very dangerous man," said Currie, also a former pastor and a devout Baptist, in a recent interview. "That whole `Christian nation' movement is attempting to undermine the absolute strength and genius of this country, and that's the First Amendment."

"To make judges a religious issue is ludicrous," Currie continued.